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Excerpt from Manuscript – Snow

26 Thursday May 2016

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EXCERPT FROM SNOW

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The days were slowing down, giving her a chance to ponder, as her mind wandered back to a happier time. Realizing she was alone, not just in the moment, but really alone.

She felt lost, wondering where everyone had gone.

She remembered the joyous days, as her girl’s laughter echoed through their home. She was teaching Bella how to bake Snickerdoodle cookies, they had been her favorite as a young girl and now they were Bella’s favorite too.

But now, as she slowly sipped on her peppermint tea, gently swirling the cream around in the cup, she had nobody to sit around with and laugh. Time was going faster, but had also seemed to stop.

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Copyright May 26, 2016

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Excerpt from Dear Paxton

08 Sunday Nov 2015

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DEAR PAXTON

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It was Saturday when Cole finally showed up at the apartment.

“Where are you going?” Lisa demanded with hurtful eyes.

“I’m moving out, Lisa. I don’t want to be with you anymore.” His eyes blazed with hatred, directed towards her.

Desperately, she reached out, gently touching his arm.

Impulsively, he retracted. “Don’t cause a scene! Lisa, just let me go!” He hissed.

“Where have you been these last couple of days? You could have called me.” He only shrugged his shoulders.

“You’ve been with her, haven’t you? You’re leaving me for that bimbo that gave you her number…the one I found in your wallet the other day? Answer me, damn it!””

“Lisa, I don’t love you anymore!”

“All of a sudden, you’ve stopped loving me?” Lisa was shaking.

“I don’t know anymore, Lisa. Maybe I never really loved you…look at you…you’re pathetic.”

“Me?” Lisa spat.

“Just let me go…don’t stop me!”

“Cole, I’m pregnant…”

Cole grabbed her by the arms, throwing her into the closet doors. “Don’t you dare think that will keep me. I’m out!”

Cole grabbed his keys and his bag, slamming the front door behind him.

Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
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Excerpt from Dear Paxton

18 Sunday Oct 2015

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Excerpt from Dear Paxton:

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Slamming the front door, Lisa ran into the sanctuary of her bedroom, throwing herself down onto her bed. Quickly, she pulled Paxton close to her heart. They laid there and cried for what seemed like hours, lost in their own sorrow, for the loss of a great man and a great father.

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Excerpt from Manuscript – Dear Paxton

15 Tuesday Sep 2015

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Dear Paxton
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She was so excited to see his precious face that she could hardly stand to sit in the truck for another moment.  Quickly, she rolled down her window to get some fresh air when she saw him standing outside waiting. 

He was standing next to a white wooded garage, kicking gravel around, while biting down on his lower lip.  He looked preoccupied and incredibly sexy, standing there, wearing a heavy army jacket and smoking a cigarette.  His hair was quite a bit longer than the last time she had seen him, but he looked the same, only better.  His face was relaxed and unshaven.  He looked so innocent and vulnerable, but she knew him better than that. 

Her feelings where mixed.  He had loved her so much, but had hurt her so deeply at the same time.  They had only known each other for two years, but she had experienced so much pain with this man.  Her heart was still mending, but now that she saw him, all the love she had pushed aside came rushing back with full force.

Tom had barely turned into the gravel driveway before Lisa was out of the truck, flying into Cole’s arms.  Oh, the strength in those arms was incredible.  All the memories came rushing back.  Their lips met, melting her heart.  He kissed her with full force.

He had also pushed back his feelings for her.  He had missed her deeply, but he was good at pushing aside his emotions, out-of-the-way when they became bothersome.  Seeing her now brought all the emotions he had forgotten, flooding back into reality and into his opened heart. 

Tears sprang to his eyes, spilling out onto his checks.  Her face was wet with tears too, kissing away all the pain they both had felt. 

“Oh Lisa, I have missed you so much.  Thank you for coming to see me.”

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Copyright September 2015

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Excerpt from Julian’s Voice

10 Saturday Nov 2012

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Julian’s Voice

As if she were under water, she sat up in bed, gasping for breath.  An earthquake of coughs ripped through her all-ready fragile body, as her tired eyes flew open.  She remembered now.  “Daddy, where is Mama?”

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REMEMBERING 911

11 Tuesday Sep 2012

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September 11, 2001.  I remember the day as if it were yesterday.  I remember walking into my house around 8:30 am, turning on the television, and watching in horror as the second airplane crashed into the Twin Towers.  The thing that struck me most odd that morning was watching the individual white sheets of paper flutter around the streets of New York, thousands and thousands of paper.  Who had touched them, who had just recently stored them into the filing system, who was missing them?  It was an eerie thought to wonder about these thousands of sheets of papers coming from the Twin Towers.  I do not know why this particular image has stayed in my mind for all these years, but it has.  Perhaps my mind needed to fixate onto something less horrific as watching a city fall apart to an awful bout of terrorism.  The images we endured that day will forever be stuck in our minds.

September 11th is a very special and memorable day to my family and I because we named our second daughter after a Naval Contractor who had died on September 11th in the Pentagon.  We named her Julian Cooper.  She reminds us every year on 911 of the loss we as individuals, families, and as a nation, had to endure on that fateful day eleven years ago on September 11, 2001.

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