(working cover)
Oh, the holiday season. So much to do. I just don’t have the spoons these days, but I still try. I really do. Right now, I have a turkey roasting in the oven. Not for any family get-together or the like, mind you, but because this fourteen pound ice bird has been lurking in the bottom of my deep freezer far too long… since last holiday season to be honest. It’s time for it to go so I have room for the, um, next big birdie. Turkeys are cheap this time of year, and I’m a bargain shopper, okay?
Don’t judge me.
This week’s WIPpet Wednesday* comes from my Appalachian contemporary fantasy, Cleaning House. I’m over 85K into the manuscript and hope to have the initial draft finished by the end of this year. Cleaning House is scheduled for release by Mountain Gap Books on October 1, 2018.
Here’s this week’s math. 12/06/2017: 1+2 + 3 (add two zeros to that for 300) 6+7=13, 13-2=11 and that means 311 words from Cleaning House.
The Setup: Cent, all of seven years old in this flashback, is on the homestead in Hare Creek. She’s supposed to be helping Mama and Aunt Tess pick bush beans when she sneaks off to her special hiding spot, but the blackberries she’s picked along the way have stained her shirt. Cent’s scared that Mama’s going to punish her for ruining the shirt and is scrubbing on it alongside the homestead’s springhead when a mysterious but familiar voice comes to her rescue.
“Take the pebbles I gave you, rinse them in the spring, then rub them on the spots. Your mother will not be angry then, and she will allow you to stay the night with Tess.”
That’s… pretty magical. If only Cent can call up on the power of these rocks to fix her grandma’s homestead situation…
I hear you on the bargain shopping! It’s the bane of our freezer’s existence too.
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You might be onto something with those rocks, but you’ll have to wait and see.
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LOL! I was afraid you’d say something like that. 😀
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I think I need the magic in those rocks! LOL. Though from the sounds of it, Cent could probably use some magic rocks to fix other things in her life.
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Like I told Eden, magic rocks…. keep thinking on that.
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No judging from this direction.
Very interesting on the rocks. Interested to see where this goes.
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No judging? Hmmm. There’s a lot of ways to take that.
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I meant about buying the turkey when it’s on sale. 😊
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Ahhh, okay. The turkey in the freezer was/ is excellent. My eldest said it was the year-long ice marinade that made it so.
I’m sick, just so you know, and not quick on the uptake today. *crawls back inside her lair and closes the door”
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I may have a stash of soda in the shed, because all of the soda has been on sale lately, so there’s no judgement here either!
Great snippet! Is the magic tied to Cent or to the stones?
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Perhaps both. 🙂
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This wippet is like a full story in one. It’s awesome!
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Thanks. That’s one of things I’m loving most about this manuscript; there are so many stories inside the main one.
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