Photo by Vlad Bagacian on Pexels.com Erek sunk into the numbness, wrapping himself in a blanket of tepid dull gray. The still, rouged face, hair professionally coiffed, mocked him in his shame. Distantly noting the muffled awkward shuffles of feet on thin berber carpet behind him, he turned away from the casket before the falling …
Novel Excerpt: Prologue #9
Photo by Anastasia Zhenina on Pexels.com Sighing with concern and resignation, she set the phone down on the internally warmed passenger seat and pulled out of the parking lot, searching through the few shivering pedestrians for the familiar figure of her son. Distracted, she didn’t notice the dark sheet of ice as she approached the …
Novel Excerpt: Prologue #8
Photo by Francesco Paggiaro on Pexels.com Chilled air burned his nostrils. The meticulously folded sheet of paper bent and flapped in the icy wind, held tightly in his sweaty hand. Anxiety that the moisture from his fingers would warp the page, or even worse, smear the carefully crafted raw confession of love scrawled desperately across …
Novel Excerpt: Prologue #7
Some parts of my novel have a little more sexual content than others. I'm putting those on my erotica blog, Elite Smut. So if you're wondering what happened to #6, it's there. Feel free to check it out (if you dare). https://maryzoso.wordpress.com/2020/09/09/novel-excerpt-prologue-6/ Photo by Negative Space on Pexels.com “Please say you’ll come.” “...” Her eyes… …
Journal: Falling in Love with My Muse
Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com Sometimes I think it would be nice to just live through my writings. To stop trying to go out and meet people and experience life and just create my own imaginary life in my head and on paper. (Or rather, on the screen -- will we ever let go of …
Novel Excerpt: Prologue #5
Photo by Janko Ferlic on Pexels.com For the hundredth time in half as many minutes, he peered surreptitiously through the jagged two inches of musty space above the irregular crenelations of the poetry section. He knew that was where she’d find the necessary volumes to complete their assignment. He just had to wait. In a …
Novel Excerpt: Prologue #2
Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy on Pexels.com “lady, i will touch you with my mind.” He was lost in the chocolate-black forest of her hair, her elegant fingertips rustling the strands delicately. “touch you and touch and touch” Distantly, at the front of the classroom, in another dimension, the disembodied recitation of the professor floated past, …
Novel Excerpt: Prologue #1
Photo by fotografierende on Pexels.com I'm writing a novel. Here's a little piece of it. The hot melty fragrance of molten wax drifted up past the prickling hairs of his nostrils, the soft sharp heat of the miniature flames warming his cheeks. He could almost see the silhouettes of his family through his clenched eyelids. …
Journal: Eureka! The Cure for Writer’s Block (Knock on Wood)
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Friday, August 7, 2020 I’m working on a novel. I’ve never attempted a longer piece like this. Previously, all of my writings have been under twenty pages. Mostly, wayyyy under. Many of them have been just one paragraph. But not in a cool “flash fiction” kinda way (I hadn’t even …
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Book Review: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Photo by Alex Knight on Pexels.com I adore Hank Green. He is smart and funny and charmingly nerdy. I love Crash Course and I find the Vlogbrothers videos to be immensely entertaining. I really admire his charitable efforts and his unflappable belief in the basic goodness of humanity. I don’t always entirely agree with his …
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