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Romantic Friday Writers: Coming Home

http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/ This blog has a challenge for writers of romance/love stories to write 400 words on a theme each Friday. Today’s theme is “Coming Home.” My entry is a 471 word excerpt of a story (I couldn’t find anything to cut!) that is available for free at paradevo.net and also as part of my collection of short love stories: Dev Dreams Volume One. It’s stretching the theme a bit as this is Priyanka settling into a new home after being sent from her home in India to America for an arranged marriage with someone she met only days before they wed. This is the moment she starts to feel at home in America for the first time… *** One night Deepak told her, “We need to go to this fancy function at the...

Posted by RuthMadison on Jul 22, 2011 in Friday Excerpt | 10 comments

Romantic Friday Writers: Challenge “Surrender”

http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/ This blog has a challenge for writers of romance/love stories to write 400 words on a theme each Friday. I thought I would participate occasionally. Today’s theme was “surrender.” My entry is a 400 word excerpt of a WIP (work-in-progress) that will be going into my Dev Dreams: Volume Two. *** There are relatives everywhere and no matter which way I turn I can feel the glare from my mother, her eyes continually trying to remind me of her edict: act normal. Even though we are supposedly here to welcome Matt home, no one is paying much attention to him. They are trying so hard to pretend nothing has changed. Uncle Seth has the grill open, but he’s having trouble turning it on. Aunt Kathy and my...