Waiting for Richard is a novella about a feisty, older author who finds love on a book tour with a reclusive elephant veterinarian and madcap adventure ensues.
I have updated my Time After Time novella, Waiting for Richard. The story has not changed. I have eliminated the unnecessary spaces and tweaked (not twerked) the formatting a bit.
Excerpt:
WAITING
FOR RICHARD
A Novella in the
TIME
AFTER TIME
Series
By
Carol Ann Kauffman
Copyright 2013
This
is a work of fiction. All places,
characters, and events depicted in this story are fictional. Any resemblance to any actual persons, living
or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental and unintentional.
Each
book in the Time after Time series
follows a pair of quintessential lovers, Richard and Nicole, through their
lives together, in different times, with different names, and sometimes even on
different planets. This follows the
alternative theory that the relationships we forge in this lifetime, both the
good and the bad, are continued into the future, and are rooted in the
past. How we live, whom we love, and the
good and evil deeds we do today follow us into the future. Unsettled issues will present themselves
again and again until they are ultimately resolved. Those people who have had a profound effect
on us in this lifetime will find us again in the future.
Location: Sterling, Ohio
“Run!”
said Rita, fear catching in her voice.
“Are
you kidding me?” replied Skye. “I’m too
damn old to run! Want me to have a heart
attack? Fall and break a hip? If some slimy son of a bitch wants a piece of
me that bad, let him come! He’ll be damn
sorry.”
“We
gotta get out of here. I’m scared,” Rita
whispered. Skye pulled out her cell
phone and tapped 9-1-1.
“Yes,
we’re in the underground parking garage of the Sterling City Center and we’re
being chased by a madman with a knife, and my friend here is scared and I’m too
damn old to run. Yes. Skye McKenna.
Sixty-six. Well, I’m glad you
agree that’s too old to run.”
“Help
is on the way, Rita. Calm down.”
“Skye,
you don’t know he has a knife!”
“You’re
absolutely right! He could have a
gun. Shall I call her back and correct
myself?” Sirens were blaring in the
distance.
“Isn’t
this illegal? This is at least a
misdemeanor, if not a felony. Skye! We could end up in jail!”
“Would
you rather be murdered in the underground parking garage?”
“No”
“Then,
cry and sniffle, look weak and helpless, and let me handle Sterling’s
Finest. Damn! If I knew there was a chance we were going to
die on the way to the car, I would’ve had dessert. They make this wonderful strawberry and
mascarpone cream cheese torte in there that is pure heaven on a plate.”
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