Friday, April 19, 2013


Welcome back to the eighth installment of Friday Blog Hop! 


Here we share a taste of wonderful new offerings of Baby Boomer Lit. While the stories vary widely, the emotion will always run high. Thanks to all of you, The Hop is growing! Enjoy the exciting new reads on the sites of those Boomer Lit authors who are also posting today. Click the link at the bottom and connect!

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This scene from STITCHES is taken from Chapter 7. 

Raleigh Coulter, the son of the woman who held the estate sale, knows that Jean and Spence have found the valuable fabric in his mother's chest. He wants it, not for its magical properties, but for its potential value.  And the FBI wants him for insider trading. Raleigh needs money fast. Here we find Raleigh staking out the Collinses' house. He's planning to break-in after he watches Jean and Spence leave.

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Raleigh slowed his Porsche as he approached the Collinses’ house. All of the triangular clerestory windows on the front of the house were patterned glass.

“You can’t see in,” he muttered as he eased the car by the house. “Pretty cool.”

Some windows were one-way shields, but from keeping such a close eye on his mother’s neighborhood, he knew old windows. If he couldn't see in, then the Collinses couldn't see out.

The house looked to be one story, but he could see the peak of a second level on the back. Tiny pine cones littered the driveway and swirled around in circles when the wind kicked up.

Raleigh watched a car approach in the rearview mirror. Spooked, he continued around the block, circled back around, and pulled up in front of the house next door. He idled in park and planned out what he wanted to do.

The same car he’d seen in the rearview, a black Crown Victoria, drove toward him from the opposite direction. The man inside looked at him intently as he passed.

      “Huh...” 

    


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6 comments:

  1. Shelley LieberApril 19, 2013 at 6:31 AM

    Good use of tension and suspense. I'm enjoying these excerpts ;-)
    Thanks, too, for the very visible mention and link to the Boomer Lit Friday blog hop!

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  2. UnknownApril 19, 2013 at 7:27 AM

    Those windows sound so interesting - I'm trying to visualize them.

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  3. saraphenApril 19, 2013 at 7:53 AM

    He's been spotted! Maybe?

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  4. Beth CarpenterApril 19, 2013 at 10:02 AM

    Huh, indeed. Tension building ...

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  5. Sandra NachlingerApril 19, 2013 at 2:48 PM

    The fact that the car is a Crown Vic makes me think it's a law enforcement vehicle. I sure hope somebody nabs the bad guy so he doesn't get that magical fabric. Good excerpt.

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  6. UnknownApril 20, 2013 at 6:25 AM

    Good excerpt. Crown Vics are always mysterious. For some odd reason, I find myself supporting Raleigh. I guess I just like Porsches.

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