Happy Saturday! I’m in a festive mood, getting ready for this weekend’s Christmas Gala concerts. (For those not in the know, I’m a violinist with a local orchestra.)
I was surprised and thrilled to find out my novel Walking by Faith was a runner-up for Best Gay Contemporary General Fiction & Humor in the Rainbow Awards. Congratulations to all the winners, runners-up, and finalists.
This week’s snippet follows directly from the previous one. A number of people were concerned that someone had volunteered Micah for something without his consent. This should clear it up.
“Oh! Right,” Micah said. “My sister-in-law”—his throat pinched painfully—“thought I might be interested. I, uh, asked her if she knew of something going on around town where I could volunteer.”
“That’s great! We could definitely use all the help we can get. Mainly our purpose is to provide general skills training, such as basic household and auto maintenance, cooking, sewing, and the like. I did talk to the other leader, and he seemed to think you’d still be able to teach a class or two, depending on the subject.”
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Sounds like he’ll be put to work!
Congratulations, and good luck with the concerts.
Ha! He sure will, but probably not the way he’s expecting.
He’s still a little blind-sided, but at least had actually been looking for something to volunteer at.
Yep. His sister-in-law told him about the community center but not the details of what he’d be signing up for.
Ah…glad to hear he really did volunteer. Sounds like a very useful program!
I modeled it after our local community education system. 🙂
I winced right with Micah when his throat pinched, poor man. Congrats on the reward!
Thank you! 🙂 It was quite a surprise.
Sounds like he wants to do it.
Congratulations on the Rainbow Awards place, Amy!
Yes, he definitely does.
Thank you!
Congratulations! I’m happy for you!! 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
Sounds like he’ll be put to work
He sure will, maybe in some unexpected ways. 🙂
I’ll say again how much I adore this story. Micah needs to be put to work for his own good.
Oh, yes. He surely does. And thank you!
Congratulations!
Thank you!