Author: gtremmer
The Chance — 8.2
> The book is finally finished, and this will be the last segment I post here. The complete story will be appearing shortly on Amazon. The market as it was laid out didn’t use Undamned rigs, despite her understanding that those guys ran the thing, if she had that correct. It was surrounded […]
Read more "The Chance — 8.2"a pain in the ass
–> here’s a bit of bellyaching which will eventually become part of my Christmas story … It was one of the ones that wasn’t going to pop, not nice and easy. One of the horrible lingering ones, one of the real bastards. Wasn’t ripe yet, wasn’t ready. Yet it sure as fuck felt like […]
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>> A little piece of something else, trying to get my juices flowing again to finish off Chance … 1. A dog keeps barking. It’s not going to quit. Damn thing won’t let her get back to sleep. Unless she shot it. That would sure shut it up. She seriously considered the possibility. […]
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Two months before she went to Florida—actually a tad longer than that, or possibly more than a tad, closer to three months than two—Holli broke up with her boyfriend, a guy named Neal. A guy she’d been with for over two years. It had been her longest relationship, and by a good margin. Closest to […]
Read more "The Chance — 7.6"The Chance — first part of chap 8
[Sometimes when a segment gets heavy-going, best thing to try is to jump ahead and come back to the dangly part later. So that’s what’s happened here today. I know what I want to have happen next in the last section, but I haven’t got it to work in my gut just yet. Don’t wanna […]
Read more "The Chance — first part of chap 8"The Chance 7.3-7.5, and some of 7.6 …
The breakfast the Shond provided was spicy sausages coiled inside rolls of pastry. Stuff had the same consistency and flavor of a glazed donut. They looked like flattened and blackened cinnamon rolls from the outside; when you bit into them they didn’t give you any cinnamon, nor did they taste as burnt as they appeared—you […]
Read more "The Chance 7.3-7.5, and some of 7.6 …">> A segment from a Christmas tale.
He tries not to talk to the kids like their kids. It’s harder than it ought to be. Way harder. Drives you nuts if you let it. He can remember when he was little how much he hated that crap. We all do, don’t we? Course we do. When you’re a dumb deluded […]
Read more ">> A segment from a Christmas tale. "The Chance — 7.2
2. Somebody whispered to her—she couldn’t make out what they said or where they were at. They kept doing it; she kept turning around looking for them. No good. The record store was full of people only nobody was close, nobody was looking at her. Why did they all have raincoats and tophats on? Why […]
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>> steam 1. Holli shared a room with Prayad. It was oddly shaped, not very large or luxurious. So much for fabled decadence. The ceiling was quite high; that was as excessive as the accommodations got. For Shond themselves, you wouldn’t count that. The room had no door for its doorway, and no windows. […]
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the celestial cellar 