THANKS for stopping back by today!
I think I managed to count right this week...sorry for the extra sentence last Sunday.
So Jack has managed to screw things up yet again...
Jack watched his now ex-fiancé screech out onto the quiet street, sipped his bourbon and relished its slow lubrication of the horror at what had just happened.
He sank back into the chair and glared at the fucked up still life on the table.
“Happiness thwarted” he could call it, or even better, “In Which Jack is a Dumb Ass.” The purple foil packets stacked next to the nearly twenty-thousand-dollar hunk of metal and compressed coal he’d put so much faith in just a few months ago.
“God damn it.”
He swept the whole mess onto the floor.
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cheers
Liz
February 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Well, that is a devastating scene. Damn! I hope he recovers.
February 19, 2012 at 9:03 AM
thanks Lisa. He does, but a lot happens in between.
February 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Oh my! Not a happy bunny!
February 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Wow! I feel bad for him. So many questions come to mine. Nice six!
February 19, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Jack brings a lot of it on himself, but he truly does love her...
February 19, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Doesn't it make you want to know what happened before that?? You have to read Sweat Equity to find out!
Jack is a tortured soul - my favorite kind of "Liz Crowe Creature."
February 19, 2012 at 10:56 AM
You are such a tease, I want to know why he did that and what's going to happen next. Excellent six.
February 19, 2012 at 11:01 AM
I guess his redeeming quality is he can admit he messed up!
February 19, 2012 at 11:03 AM
Oh, Jack has many redeeming qualities...that's part of the problem actually ;-)
February 19, 2012 at 11:04 AM
thanks Sherry. Floor Time (the first book) is getting GREAT reviews...check it out! the link is up top along the right side, just click on the book cover.
February 19, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Wow, certainly does make me wonder about this guy. Great six, Liz.
February 19, 2012 at 12:10 PM
Wow, that's a lot of money for a ring. The real estate business must be good -- this must take place before the big slump. LOL
February 19, 2012 at 12:12 PM
I'll be back to see more - sounds like he has to start all over, again
February 19, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Jack is an attorney, owns a building company and can sell ice to eskimos. Downturn, shmownturn.
I had my best year ever 2008. it's all in the skills.
February 19, 2012 at 12:18 PM
thanks Sue!
February 19, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Poor Jack. Great job conveying the entire situation in only 6!
February 19, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Poor guy! Lovely six!!
February 19, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Very intriguing snippet. Definitely makes me want to read more.
February 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM
Purple foil packets? Now I wonder what they contain.
February 19, 2012 at 4:26 PM
There's so much to like in these six -- the lubricated horror, the titles of the still life, the hunk of metal and coal. Terrific six!
February 19, 2012 at 4:35 PM
I echo Monica, fantastic!
February 19, 2012 at 4:59 PM
Wow..intense. There has to bee a story behind all that anger.
February 19, 2012 at 5:21 PM
thanks
February 19, 2012 at 5:21 PM
condoms.
February 19, 2012 at 5:21 PM
thanks you guys!
February 19, 2012 at 5:22 PM
yep, this is a sequel so there is a whole lovely juicy book getting great reviews already out there (Floor Time)
February 19, 2012 at 5:22 PM
thanks Alix
February 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM
OH my! I feel for him... and I'm so curious about what happened!
Great six!
Amy Durham
February 19, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Such an intense moment. He gained all my sympathy in just a few lines. Nicely done.
February 19, 2012 at 8:35 PM
Very hooky and emotional, vivid sense of regret.
February 20, 2012 at 8:32 AM
Great six, Liz. Very intense. Look forward to reading more.
February 20, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Poor Jack! Excellent hook, and characterization in this snippet.