Sunday Snippet – More Than Words – The First Look
Sunday snippet time. Make sure you check out the full list of participants at the Weekend Writing Warriors website.
Today’s eight sentences are from MORE THAN WORDS, aka “the dirty Scrabble book”. Last week, Travis was doing a little investigating via Google, trying to locate his mystery woman from some clues she’d left. Today’s snippet skips ahead some. (If you want to know what happened in between, just click one of those buy link buttons at the bottom.)
Travis pushed his sunglasses to the top of his head — he wanted a clear view when he walked through the door.
An electronic chime announced his arrival. A woman sat behind the main counter, bowed over a book, dark hair pooling on newsprint as her pencil tapped frenetically on the gleaming white countertop. He’d made it halfway into the store before she raised her head, looked him in the eye and straightened on her stool. The sight stopped him mid-step. He’d hoped she’d be attractive. Expected it, since her sister was a looker. But he hadn’t prepared himself for the possibility that his anonymous Scrabble crush would be knockout beautiful.
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12 Comments
J.A.
This first meeting is one of my favorites! So glad to see it here. Well done, Karla!
Cindy Amrhein ( @historysleuth1 )
I’m so liking the last few snippets with Travis being all stealth and mysterious with his sleuthing. It appeals to mystery me.:)
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S. J. Maylee
Aw!! I want to give this 8 a hug. I loved it. 🙂
Gemma Parkes
You painted a great first impression! Love that she stopped him in his tracks!
A.S. Fenichel
Have I mentioned that I love Travis! Love him!!! Great snippet.
Jacy Oliver
Wow that was great first impression, nice snippet.
Veronica Scott
Ooh, I am enjoying this story! It’s on my kindle so I really should just go read the entire thing…but I have more 8’s to visit LOL. Excellent excerpt, will treat myself to the whole book at once later this week.
Michelle
travis is so adorable in his crush.
Shannyn Schroeder
I love it when a first meet stops a guy in his tracks. Very cool!
Caitlin
Now he’s going to have to explain how he ended up there without sounding stalkery. Or lie, and have it bite him later.
Goran
Great description, and who’d have thought scrabble would be a way to meet new people 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
Stevie Carroll
Your words paint a lovely picture there.