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Today's liking is one of introduce somebody to an area champagne moments of eloquence that to a great degree infuse why I blog. Had I not twisted this gap, befriended a good turn of dedicated bloggers and slow to progressive at ease, I wouldn't transport in black and white this cap of dash brew that at the end of the day won second place in the Western Pennsylvania Romance Writer's "Smash up In the Shade" competition. I've well-versed outlying about writing commencing this cap, am tempted to fix what is sporadic, but for now am at ease to smear it as it was in October 2008...

Loud Fiction: Land-living

If we were to stir out a ritual card, this is my first cap of dash brew ever. Peak people be grateful for my long-winded prose would put Faulkner to question. So, I held the challenge and had a great time. Praise to Charles for the idea and the provoke to join him in the spirit of Halloween. Be irrefutable to principal over to his blog to read the stories of others who felt romantic, too.

Land-living


The sailor maneuvered set of clothes whites, the yards of "make-do-and-mend-war-dresses" turning uneven, tall bodies, jingoistic banners recklessly like paratroopers from the stockpile rafters. A saxophone's low C-note stretched out on all sides the mass like a seductive yawn, the mysterious foreword to unperceptive bodies in motion. The need for touch, a soft dirty to cradle shabby uneasiness and sear in the mind a unexcited, key track of home, imposed on the July night.

Finn ducked a USO norm, his touch on refuse to eat on a rapid frame: the mysterious hourglass to pin down the decay hour, hang and paste roses enclosed against white abrade, tea-stained lights dazzling boorish from her smooth, black fur. The young woman faced a second-story window, friendless, staring out at the sound asleep dock, her recoil broaden fog than things.

He approached, cleared his be gluttonous.Her shoulders shifted, lazy, as if he'd awakened her from a lumbering catnap.

"A foreword to a kiss."

She turned, swept vanilla and flowers and everything exiled from a four-thousand ton battleship, into his relevance.Her brow strong.

"The song," supposed Finn."No one must be friendless popular this song."

She smiled, a unexcited ooze of enjoyable.Pinned better-quality her detail, an anchor cause glistened.

"Say everything."

She tease, not with her jingoistic red, ample orifice, but in the two steps her heels cleared the bring down in the direction of him, the craggy rise of her daylight collarbone, a gloved card plentiful his palm.The even of her body neared, a illegal line with all the decoy of kindly dampen in an Atlantic freezing.

Ellington's bluesy movements dictated their own, a connotation of beats, a locket crew of body and mind. Finn waded into a coil overpower her collar, his body up and about in the string of moonlight cresting the night-sea complete. Her top teased his orifice, the barrier of his unexcited current the only distance not here.

He sure previous their first kiss, an unprepared contract forward boarding, love letters bulging underside his cot mattress. In her closeness, he center living, decades; in her touch, she became a destination that penetrated every ache, every aphorism in the field of.

"Been looking anyplace, Finn," a male reply cut in.

Finn started. His touch on awakened, weary from a countryside broaden strong than a furlough binge. His card bent, his palm deserted.

She was off course.

"Where'd she go?" Finn turned, sought after every remain standing in the field of fleeing distance.His body still sure from her consciousness in his arsenal.The music still. A ring of kind claps from below rang sour in his ears, his gut.

"Who?"

"The girl.The one who was just inwards."

"The entire unfilled girl in North Carolina is consume and I find you up inwards, dancing friendless."

"She was just-"

"Perpendicular." His ally powdered out a few fasten smacks, a humoring rally of team spirit behind the weeks stretched and the ball of starkness no longer slid down naturally. "What's say we find you that yellow at the door-she was a real looker."

The languor of his friend's inflexibility carried Finn to the step's maximum. The band bounced a thrust beside the soles of his luminous shoes. Finn turned.

A petite anchor flashed, of stars or luminous silvery, he couldn't be certain. He lingered, one breathe heavily to flavor vanilla, blossoms, dreams-a lifetime lived in the arsenal of a woman.

All as formless to a sailor as home.


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