Rainbow Snippets*—Another Month Gone
It's been a long, hot week. Not much more to say beyond that! But wow, where did July go? I've been so busy, I've barely even noticed it. Dragonfly on one of my rare nature walks this month. Like Cracks in the Sidewalk is, at its heart, a second chance romance. Today's snippet is the first night James stays with Val after they ran into each other earlier in the day—not for sexy times, but because Val was having a panic attack and called James, who naturally came to help. Told from James' POV: I carefully rolled away from him. There should have been a strangeness to it, being in that room again, being in that bed. There should have been a more alien quality to being there, and yet it was the most natural thing. In the daylight I could see the posters I’d left, forgotten, still hanging on the walls. As I looked closer, there were other pieces of me spread throughout the room. There was my Texas Longhorns cap hanging on a hook, and on the dresser sat the stuffed ted...