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Excerpt from WIP Arianna – Chapter 22
I stared across the room at Great-Grandma’s painting called “Mom” for a while, the mess of colors blending and blurring. I nodded. “I don’t even know where to begin. I’ve been trying so hard to rebuild my life these past several weeks, Nana, and now–now it feels like it’s crumbling apart. It’s pathetic that a…
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Excerpt from Arianna (Unpublished WIP)
I started the first call…only for it to ring four times and go to an answering machine. I hung up. We didn’t ever leave messages, so that person’s number would just go through the system again and would be called by someone tomorrow. It was all automatic. I smiled grimly, thinking of all the times…
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Excerpt from Arianna (Unpublished WIP)
Friday evening, after closing the book, I went to my familiar place at the vanity and sat. My tattered journal was now full, so I reached for the paper bag that held a new one. On the way home from work, I’d taken a detour to a historical part of one of the western suburbs…
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Excerpt from Arianna
The sky was vibrant orange and pink over the lake as Marc and I sat on his couch. “You have a million-dollar view,” I said. “I’d like to think it’s priceless.” I turned toward him and smiled. His right arm was draped around me as I sat with my legs pulled up on the cushions.…
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Character Friday – Meet Arianna Banks
Every Friday, I will feature a character from one of my books, both published and unpublished. The character will be presented as if he/she is writing about themselves in a journal entry. My name is Arianna Banks. I was born July 23, 1992 in Cleveland, Ohio. Most of my life, I haven’t stuck with anything…