"Sabella switched to her own car and headed home. Occasionally, she glimpsed the purple highlights that now adorned her hair in her rear-view mirror, but there was nothing she could do about them now. Theoretically, the color would rinse out in ten to fourteen days. As always, in her own bizarrely effectual way, Gina had reminded her of her determinedly unfettered independence, and that she shouldn’t be defined by the assumptions of a virtual stranger, no matter how attractive and otherwise charming...Gina was inarguably one of a kind, and an incomparable friend."
March 21, 2013
Flash Blog: Friendship
A short excerpt from my novel, touching on today's prompt:
"Sabella switched to her own car and headed home. Occasionally, she glimpsed the purple highlights that now adorned her hair in her rear-view mirror, but there was nothing she could do about them now. Theoretically, the color would rinse out in ten to fourteen days. As always, in her own bizarrely effectual way, Gina had reminded her of her determinedly unfettered independence, and that she shouldn’t be defined by the assumptions of a virtual stranger, no matter how attractive and otherwise charming...Gina was inarguably one of a kind, and an incomparable friend."
"Sabella switched to her own car and headed home. Occasionally, she glimpsed the purple highlights that now adorned her hair in her rear-view mirror, but there was nothing she could do about them now. Theoretically, the color would rinse out in ten to fourteen days. As always, in her own bizarrely effectual way, Gina had reminded her of her determinedly unfettered independence, and that she shouldn’t be defined by the assumptions of a virtual stranger, no matter how attractive and otherwise charming...Gina was inarguably one of a kind, and an incomparable friend."
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I love how our closest friends can know us almost better than we know ourselves.
ReplyDeleteSo true; it's that outside perspective we need in our lives, exactly like with writing.
DeleteThanks for sharing an excerpt.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading it.
DeleteThank you so much for sharing, Aria! It's a very intriguing post!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Terri – I tried ;-)
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