Six Sentence Sunday #4

I'm late in posting this week, only because I didn't have a chance to edit during the week. So, I didn't get my name on the master list on Six Sentence Sunday. Ah well.

We're much further into the story now. Sophia is still having a problem accepting that Michael is real, but recently had an interaction with Grace in her dreams. Michael is making things more difficult by hiding his identity, which is frustrating Sophia to no end. Just before this scene, she was seeking the solace of her bedroom, and found herself (and Michael) out on a cliff overlooking her home town.

She smiled faintly and turned back towards the town, pointing to a spot in the distance. “My house is somewhere in that area,” she explained. “I lived here my whole life, right up until I moved away for college.”

He nodded. “Me too. Though I lived on the other side of town, towards the movie theater.”

The plot thickens! If you've read the character sketches posted here for Sophia and Michael, some of this should be clicking together a little more.

Tune in next week for another thrilling excerpt from Hidden Souls!

Six Sentence Sunday #3

I'm back with another installment of Hidden Souls. I'm dreadfully behind on my editing, but I'm starting to see just how much work this draft is going to need to be readable. I'm roughly 1/5 of the way through the draft, and hope to get through another 1/5 over the weekend, since I'm going to be starting surgery next week and likely won't have a lot of free time.

In our last installment, Sophia and Michael had just met and were having a little tete-a-tete. This week, we focus on Sophia. She's struggling with the idea that Michael is a ghost, and that she sees things that she couldn't possibly see. She's still in denial, but experiences something rather strange one night after talking to Kate.

Sophia opened her eyes to blackness all around her. She blinked rapidly, trying to force her eyes to adjust to the darkness, but the blackness remained. She took a deep breath, sensing a dampness in the air. She was definitely not in the safety of her room anymore. She sat up slowly, feeling around her blindly to get a sense of where she was, but she couldn't feel anything, not even the surface she was sitting on. It was as if she were floating in a dark cloud.

As always, you can read more six sentence compilations at Six Sunday. Use caution while going through the authors, as many of them write erotica.

Six Sentence Sunday #2

It's time for another installment of Six Sentence Sunday. Welcome to those visiting for the first time.

A reader last week asked me for a description of Hidden Souls. I'm so used to people I've talked up my blog to reading (and thus already knowing about my long term works) that I realized I didn't really have a description of the story anywhere. So, I've changed one of the pages up at the top to provide a summary of my longer stories (Works in Progress).

The basic premise behind Hidden Souls is a college girl finds out she can see ghosts and move about as a 'ghost' herself. The plot is centered around a kidnapping she witnesses in her dreams (not realizing that it wasn't a dream), and the tale spins out from there.

Last week's SSS post was a byte from the start of the novel, where Sophia (the protangonist) was arguing with her roommate, Kate, about going out on a blind date.

This week, we're a little bit more into the story. We're now at the point where Sophia meets Michael. Except that she isn't quite convinced that what she sees is real.

Jumping in surprise, she looked over her shoulder to see Michael standing here, scrutinizing her list. She snatched it up defensively and slid it into her back pocket. “You go to school here, huh?”

He slid into the seat next to her gracefully. “I don't go to school anywhere. I'm dead, remember?”

Thanks for visiting, and feel free to check out some of my short stories while you're here. As always, you can check out other Six Sentence entries here. Many authors write erotic fiction, so click the links at your own risk.

Six Sentence Sunday #1

So, after deciding to pull out my rough drafts and dust them out in an attempt to edit them, I figured a little extra motivation might not be such a bad thing. So, I'm going to work on participating in Six Sentence Sunday every week. I will use six sentences from whatever draft I worked on throughout the week. They may be sentences I'm trying to rework, or the finished product after going through a second (or third, or tenth) time.

This week, I'm starting with Hidden Souls. This excerpt comes from the very beginning, and I'm not sure I'll keep this scene when all is said and done. It's my attempt at humor (and it's a pretty bad attempt overall), but I'm not sure it does much for character development beyond saying that Sophia doesn't want to date right now. Still, it was fun to write.

Anyway, enjoy.

Sophia sighed. “Just get me out of this and I'll forgive you. And don't try to set me up on any more dates for a while.”

Kate's pout instantly turned into a beaming smile. “That means I can set you up! Yes!”

You can see submissions from other authors at Six Sentence Sunday. WARNING: Some of the entries are on the more erotic side of things, so... beware.