Rainbow Snippets*—End of Summer

Yesterday was the last day of this year's Farmers Market. It's been a challenge this year, more so than the last two summers. I've simply had too much to deal with. It's felt like I've been on autopilot for the last two months. Maybe I'll get my groove back, now! I imagine at this point I won't get Blind Ante out before the end of the year, but miracles have happened, I suppose.

The inspiration for Blind Ante was my aunt and uncle's (and now my cousin's) trailer, surrounded by a few acres of woods. It's a place the extended family gathers. It's one of my happy places, to be honest. So, even though the trailer is old and shabby, it's more than a backdrop for the story. Like The House in the Headphones trilogy, the trailer in this story is a character in its own way.  

Staying quiet wasn’t easy. Reese’d never noticed how noise traveled through the trailer, even though it’d been his home for ten years, and he’d spent large chunks of his childhood there with his grandparents. They’d left the property as a shared inheritance, making Ruby’s five children equal owners, but Reese was the only one who called it home, although his siblings took turns staying with him when Mom’s house got too crowded during the holidays.

Why Roger carried a copy of the deed with him was a complete mystery. The second bedroom was unofficially his, but he preferred the nomad life that their mother had lived when they were children, and rarely made an appearance. On those few occasions when he stayed, he was trying to lie low or hoping to beg money off his siblings. He never brought night-time companions with him, for which Reese was now eternally thankful. He loved his older brother, but the last thing he wanted to do was listen as he had sex. Even the thought made him queasy.

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