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Hello and welcome to Six Sentence Sunday. Please follow the link to find the complete list of very talented authors or search #sixsunday on twitter.

This week is a continuation from Drawing Chance, my latest short in progress. Last week Louie greeted the sexy handsome stranger, who had turned up at the chess championship award function to surprise Anna. He had cheekily suggested she was quite the player.

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‘Gentleman,’ Anna began as she took a deep breath, gathering herself in the surprise of  their greeting. She stepped forward, breaking their handshake and feeling a rush up her thigh as Louie’s hand slid away. Turning quickly to face them, she put her arms out, catching their shoulders and started to walk.

‘It’s time to find the bar,’ she continued. ‘I need a drink.’
A small grin starting, as her thoughts swirled between the two men.

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Thank you to everyone who comes over each week and a warm welcome to new readers. I hope you have enjoyed my six today.

Click here for my past Six Sentences.
Positional Sacrifice      Coffeehouse Play     Drawing Chance

I truly value and appreciate your feedback, so please if you have the time, I would love you to hear your thoughts, so please leave a comment.

Please Take Care and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Play and Stay Safe.

Six Sentence Sunday 23

Welcome to Six Sentence Sunday. Please follow the link to find the complete list of very talented authors or search #sixsunday on twitter.

Last week we left Anna sandwiched intimately between Louie and the sexy handsome stranger at the chess championship awards night. This is from the third of my short stories about Anna, called Drawing Chance.

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Before Anna could speak, Louie leant around her, extending his hand out to welcome the  stranger.

‘Hi, My names Louie,’ he explained as he slide his other hand further up her inner thigh. His fingers brushing against the the soft cotton of her underpants.  ’Anna owned me at the championship this afternoon,’ he paused and with a cheeky smile he leant in closer to her  and continued, ‘she is quite the player.’

‘Indeed,’ the stranger replied, shaking Louie’s hand with a firm grip. ‘Looks like I turned up just in time.’

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Thank you to everyone who comes over each week and comments,
and a warm welcome to new readers. I hope you have enjoyed my six today.

Click here for my past Six Sentences.
Positional Sacrifice      Coffeehouse Play     Drawing Chance

I truly value and appreciate your feedback, so please if you have the time,
I would love you to hear your thoughts, so please leave a comment.

Please Take Care and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Play and Stay Safe.

Six Sentence Sunday 22

Welcome to Six Sentence Sunday. Please follow the link to find the complete list of very talented authors or search #sixsunday on twitter, to find the participants and the links to their posts.

Last week our sexy handsome stranger from Coffeehouse Play turned up to find Anna, who is attending the awards night of the chess championship she had just played at with Louie. This week we look at the scene with Anna’s experience.

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Struggling to concentrate on the conversations happening around her, Anna was hyper aware of Louie’s hand pressing lightly into the curve of her lower back. Stepping in close behind her, he dropped his hand down finding the long split in the back of her skirt. She felt her self tense, his fingers brushing up the flesh of her inner thigh, the soft caress of the silk restraint he’d left tied around his wrist drawing a tingling line.

‘Anna!,’ she heard with surprise, her mind quickly trying to find a grip back into reality. She looked over and saw him, striding over from the entrance. With no time to think, he was standing before her. ‘I couldn’t wait to see you again,’ he whispered as he lent in giving her a soft lingering kiss hello.

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Thank you to everyone who comes over each week and comments, and a warm welcome to new readers. I hope you have enjoyed my six today.

Click here for my past Six Sentences.
Positional Sacrifice      Coffeehouse Play

I truly value and appreciate your feedback, so please if you have the time, I would love you to hear your thoughts, so please leave a comment.

Please Take Care and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Play and Stay Safe.

Berenice Abbott – Changing New York 1935-1938 – photography

While researching New York in the mid 1930′s for No Soft Soap I have had the sheer pleasure of discovering the work of American Photographer Berenice Abbott, and the amazing project she undertook from 1935 -1938 - Changing New York.

Murray Hill Hotel; From Park Avenue and 40th Street. Nov. 19, 1935.  ID: 482742

Changing New York was a Federal Art Project that documented the city’s rapidly changing cityscapes. Skyscrapers growing out of an old world, an amazing collection of beautiful and thoughtful images. New York Public Library are the custodians of the collection, and have made the images available through their digital collection. Follow the link below to scroll through this fascinating and now historically important documentation.

 Berenice Abbott – New York Public Library

Six Sentence Sunday 21

Welcome to Six Sentence Sunday, this week has just seemed to fly past. Please follow the link to find the complete list of very talented authors or search #sixsunday on twitter, to find the participants and the links to their stories.

I’m excited to be presenting a brand new work in progress, Drawing Chance to you this week. A short story that picks up with Anna and Louie after Positional Sacrifice, with the arrival of our sexy handsome stranger from Coffeehouse Play. 

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Surprise his gift, he scanned the bar, the urge to hold her, touch and taste her again driving his search. He’d been told she was there, an honoured guest of the awards night. ‘She didn’t tell me what she did,’ he mused with a smile, ‘sexy, intelligent and modest!’

She was standing, tall and elegant, in a sea of noise and excited people. He went to move, planning she wouldn’t see him until he was right up next to her. Suddenly he froze, the hand of the man standing to the side to her, gently resting on the curve of her lower back.

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Thank you to everyone who comes over each week and comments, and a warm welcome to new readers. I hope you have enjoyed my six today.

Click here for my past Six Sentences.
Positional Sacrifice      Coffeehouse Play

I truly value and appreciate your feedback, so please if you have the time, I would love you to hear your thoughts, so please leave a comment.

Please Take Care and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Play and Stay Safe.

Quince – Fruit of the Gods

The  quince is unique, in fragrance  and flavour either fresh or cooked. Quince trees have been cultivated for thousands of years and ancient civilizations including the ancient Greeks prized them for their taste and beauty in the garden.

In Ancient Greek legend it was a quince that Paris awarded to Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess at wedding celebrations on Mount Olympus. He had to choose between Aphrodite, Athena and Hera. They  tried to bribe him to choose among them – Hera offered ownership of all of Europe and Asia,  Athena offered skill in battle, and wisdom,  and Aphrodite offered the love of the most beautiful woman on Earth, Helen of Sparta.  Paris chose Aphrodite and in so doing choose Helen, and so began the story of Helen of Troy.

So you could say in it’s own way the mighty quince was instrumental in the creation of the Trojan wars. A recipe for a family dinner party, a romantic dinner or just the perfect desert for Melbourne in Spring. Enjoy, celebrate and love.

Ingredients – Serves 6 people (half a fruit each)

• 3 quince , peeled, halved and cored
• zest of one lemon
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 3 or 4 cloves
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar

Preparation

Peel, halve and core the Quince, and place in a baking tray. Combine all other ingredients, making sure you mix them well and add enough water to cover the fruits.

Cover the baking tray with foil and cook for 45 mins to 1 hour. Check by pressing the fruits to see if they are nice and soft.

Remove the fruits from the tray, and reduce the syrup on top of the stove for 15 minutes.

Pour the syrup over the quince and cover until you are ready to serve them.

Marcus Miller – Juju – 1993

An instrumental that always inspires me:

Just love it!

Robotech (A Review) @ Toonopolis

Do you remember your first crush? I do!  It was Rick Hunter.

Head on over to toonopolis to read my thoughts on Rick Hunter and Robotech

When a character dies and they feel like part of your family.

I love M*A*S*H
the books, the movie and especially the television series.

I started out with the intention of writing about the immense crush I had on Hawkeye. But I thought through which scene probably had the most effect on me, when I originally saw it, and the many times after. I have no shame in admitting I have probably seen the entire series several times and happily tune in to any re-run when it happens to be screening.

Here it is:

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and I still cry.

November – #NaNoWriMo and #NaBloPoMo

November
National Novel Writing Month & National Blog Posting Month
#NaNoWriMo & #NaBloPoMo

It all starts now!
National Novel Writing Month and National Blog Posting Month are two completely separate writing initiatives, that I have joined up for, in the Month of November. I have popped the links up in their titles so if you wish to also participate, or watch my progress, and or the progress of the many talented (crazy) authors that have decided to participate, you have the information with a click of your mouse.

The Novel Writing Month, proposes 50K words of the first draft of a novel. So I hope to pump into No Soft Soap and complete the first draft by the end of the month. There is a lot to do..but I am really looking forward to fleshing out that plot. 

Deciding to participate in the National Blog Posting Month as well, came from having plans for this project, that life and chaotic work ethic have hindered. So I am hoping November is going to be a formative month, helping me to create a productive structure that lets me achieve the goals I set out for myself. I will be posting daily with a cross section of themes. There will be erotic romance snippets, author critiques and interviews, research I have found interesting and things I haven’t even thought of yet.

I have a huge Thank – you to Karen Andrews ( @miscmum ) for writing about her participation in both these events. She inspired me to investigate further and as a result I signed up.

……Play and Stay Safe!