Eight days ago, I started writing a new book, which is either going to be called “Ashland” or “The Secret Wife”. I’m not sure which one I like better yet. Averaging 1697 words a day, it’s 13,580 words at this point, which is the equivalent of 39 pages. That’s incredible progress in just a little over a week in between working and everything else I’ve got going on. Knock on wood, but I don’t think I’m going to get writer’s block anytime soon, which is a powerful and exciting feeling. So now, for all you (3) readers of the site, I reveal the prologue! Tell me what you think!
It was dark outside. The kid of dark that comes from a new moon and a thick spread of clouds covering the stars. There was a bar, with a back room. That’s where I woke up, sore and confused. There was a mirror next to the bed I found myself in, wearing an over-large man’s soiled tee shirt. Standing up with shaky, skinny legs, I gasped at the sight of my reflection. Curly brown hair was matted from sweat in odd, unappealing angles. My right eye was blackened, and there was a deep cut on my high cheek bone underneath. There was a painting behind me, slightly off center, of a boat in a hurricane.
“Look who’s finally awake,†A guttural, middle aged man leered at me from a slightly cracked door. “Not so tough without the gun, are you?â€
I sized him up in a half second and sprang onto the bed, my arms extended for a window just out of my reach.
Ten minutes later, my limp body was tossed out the front door of the bar, having been battered further from what I’d already endured, and I fell face first into a murky puddle, cigarette butts floating by my swollen eyes.
Laughter. All I could hear was laughter, the swish of liquor in glass pints, and the finality of a slammed wooden door.
I’m not sure how long I was there. Time ceased to mean anything at all. But before the light of the next day could expose me, I was up, running, as fast as my ten year old body could muster. I didn’t stop running until my legs gave out and I collapsed under my own exhaustion.
In other news… I got the new Jonas Brothers CD! It’s better than I expected.
Song of the day: This City is Contagious by The Cab
i like it!!!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!