Saturday, January 24, 2015

More WeWriWa 8 Sentence Sunday from The Mechanic

It's time for another WeWriWa!


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This post is part of an ongoing blog hop hosted by Weekend Writing Warriors. Every Sunday, participating authors post eight sentences from a published work or even a WIP (work in progress). Then we hop to our fellow warriors’ blogs and check out all the fabulous fiction that’s happening! It's a great way to meet readers, writers, and your next favorite book!  :)


For January, we are going to explore The Mechanic. This is Linda's story in the Loving Her series.Linda. Her name means beautiful. Linda's life, though, is anything but beautiful. Independent, head strong and perhaps even a bit vindictive, Linda is both tough and vulnerable. Linda survives the unthinkable from both family and strangers alike. Linda is not one to be kept down. As long as she stays true to herself, she knows that her life will one day, indeed, be beautiful. Linda's incredibly powerful story is the third book in the Loving Her series.




Background on this snippet: Linda is outside smoking one evening. She looks up at the sky and is very contemplative.



The sky was a jet black blanket with the stars as little shining decorations. A three quarter moon sat like a full, round, content Buddha belly. The Philadelphia skyline was a lighted mountain range, poking the sky at various heights.
She exhaled her smoke and watched it swirl up into the night. Linda suddenly felt so small. The buildings around her stood at unfathomable heights. The sky was so much larger than the small portion she could see. The universe was so much greater than the few stars she saw.





Hope you liked it! Happy reading!

4 comments:

Chelle Cordero said...

Terrific visual, draws the reader in quite nicely. Great 8.

Charmaine Gordon said...

You paint a full picture of this lonely woman. Good eight.

Unknown said...

Great eight Lauren! I love the description of the night sky.

Jess Schira said...

WOW! Your description in this snippet blew me away. I'm really looking forward to reading this book in it's entirety.