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Rainbow Snippets*–Fangs for Everything

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I doubt it's the kind of thing most people even notice, but I changed the title of Fangs for the Memories to Fangs for Everything . It's been something I've been considering for a while because a quick Amazon search pulled up more than a dozen books with the title I'd been using. Ugh! The problems writers have.  One of my favorite pictures I took this week. I went out hoping to photograph butterflies, I came home with a camera full of dragonflies! From Fangs for Everything . It's 1969 and vampire Artemis has found himself at Woodstock with a couple of hippy hitchkikers. He's just woken from his day sleep in the back of his panel truck to find Alex sitting next to him:     I could hear people close by and music feeding through the stage speakers, but no rain. “It quit raining?” “For the moment. But it’s cool. Everyone's hanging loose. I mean, there’s so much love out there. There’s people from everywhere .” Alex spread his arms over his head, swaying wi

Rainbow Snippets*--Broken Summer

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It's been a rough week at the house of Jones. The sewer is giving us trouble, I have to replace a couple of tires on my car, and our pool collapsed, taking a section of fence with it. And my coworker is taking vacation next week, so I have to work every day while arranging to have the sewer taken care of, find new tires, and call the insurance. Our summer kind of revolves around the pool. Now the question becomes replace it or not, because we're talking about moving. (I told the partner it's a sign!) The point of explosion and subsequent tsunami. (Our neighbor witnessed it. He said the wave went over the fence.) And now less about my life, and more about my writing: I'm editing Fangs for the Memories , and this is from yesterday's session. It's Vampire Tim's POV towards his love interest, Oakley. Tim is a cinnamon roll with a tough guy exterior.  I felt his grin against my cheek and it was followed by a chuckle. “We’re both ridiculous.” If either of us said