Rainbow Snippets*–Bluebells

It was a hectic week with lots of baking for a vendor fair. It's so much work that culminates in crossing my fingers and hoping it sells. For an event that I had never attended, and that had over 160 vendors, I did okay. But it also meant a week of limited "author stuff". I got a tiny bit of writing done (it would help if I could figure out some main plot points before I go any farther!) and a little editing on another project. I'm doing the read-aloud round of edits I like to do, but I've found I have a hard time doing it at home. So, I've been taking my notebook to the nature center on nice days, walking for a half hour, and then spending 20 to 30 minutes in the truck, reading and marking. Blind Ante is requiring more marking than I'd hoped. Ah, the fun of being a self-published author! 

picture of bluebells with bee
Bluebells are my favorite spring flower. Something about them just makes me happy. 

This week's snippet is from Delicious. Hanson is the carpenter doing a remodel on the local "haunted house." No further explanation needed! 

     “Ow! Dang blast-it. That hurt!”
     I stared at the hammer in my hand as if it were the tool’s fault I’d gotten distracted. I sucked my throbbing thumb into my mouth and rubbed my tongue over the nail. Grimacing at the layer of grit from a full morning of work, I pulled my thumb free. Ack. Now my mouth tasted like drywall plaster. Tipping up my thermos, I swished coffee around and spit into the trash can. “Sad waste of caffeine,” I lamented. 
     After taking another drink, I looked around, trying to determine what distracted me. It had been a problem throughout the whole remodel. If I hadn’t been curious about the house, I might have turned down the job for something that paid better. The stories about the property had reached fairytale proportions years before I was born—probably before my grandparents were born. I did an inner eye roll. A witch who captured and ate children? How could anyone believe that?

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