Another Snippet Sunday post today, with a short passage from our work Same Time Tomorrow. This features our leading lady Chloe early in the story, having a rough day that just keeps getting rougher....
By the time Chloe
left the office that evening, the rain had stopped, but her troubles hadn't.
She had no sooner left the building and was standing at the curb than a passing
truck hit a large puddle and sent a torrent of muddy water her way.
"Damn!" she
shouted as the light changed, allowing her to finally cross the street to the
bus stop... just as the bus pulled away.
She decided to walk.
As she reached Central Park, she saw a couple in a horse-drawn carriage, locked
in an embrace. He's probably just proposed. In a horse-drawn carriage in
Central Park, Chloe thought with disdain. Now he'll take her to dinner
at an elegant restaurant. Then they'll have an inexcusably expensive wedding
with five hundred of their closest friends, a honeymoon in some exotic
location, and end up divorced.
I have to wonder if she's really that cynical or if it's just the product of a bad day. Either way, great snippet!
ReplyDeleteShe has reason to be cynical and jaded... but it's a good place for her story to start out from.
ReplyDeleteShe was quite cynical at the start. It only took Barry Manilow and a rather charming Irishman on an online message board to change her attitude!
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