Sunday, January 29, 2012

Six Sentence Sunday #22

Welcome once again, sixers! One more snippet from my manuscript Badger: A Strange Tale of Love, Sex, and Vigilante Justice, and we'll move on to something else next week. This is from the same scene as last week's six, a couple pages onward. (If it's your first visit, the heroine is a recovering Vicodin addict and the anti-hero is a vigilante cyclist with a grab-bag of psychological disorders.)

I sat cross-legged on the bed, leaving a few inches between our thighs.

In the dim light of my reading lamp, I could make out a tidy ribbon of raised lines along the outside of his left arm, like he was the most OCD, perfectionist self-mutilator in the world. Clean and uniform, an inch wide and as perfectly parallel as corduroy. As though he’d held a comb to his skin and drawn a razor between the teeth. It made me feel close to him, this proof that he, like me, sometimes did stupid shit to himself in the privacy of some lonely room, somewhere. It reminded me of my art, the obsessive strokes of my X-Acto blade cleaving paper, and the calm it brought me to get lost in the slices, the ritual, the repetition.


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22 comments:

  1. I'm definitely seeing where the weirdness comes in. But I like it. Actually, scratch that. I love it. I'm really eager to see how this will turn out.

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  2. What interesting ways your characters are fractured. Want to read this whole thing.

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  3. Sounds like their flaws will bring them together. :-) Great job conveying that.

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  4. Wow. Intense, yet not. Great six.

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  5. Lovely realization of what connects them. Very nicely drawn.

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  6. I love the description of his skin followed by her blade "cleaving" the paper. So visceral, and the contrast of the scars to the image of the blade in the paper ... I don't know. I really love that.

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  7. Great description. The pacing really drew me in too. Such and interesting project you've got there. :)

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  8. You don't disappoint, I love reading about these characters, they are certainly strange. This would definitely count as a wonkomance -- have you been to this site? http://wonkomance.com/

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  9. Funny you should ask, Angela. I'm one of its founders! Damn, I'm predictable.

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  10. I love how broken and yet how right your characters always are. Great job!

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  11. Oh that's funny and sad at same time - an ocd self abuser - great idea!

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  12. Such interesting and disturbed characters. Great six!

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  13. It's dark, intense, disturbing and I want to hear the rest. LOL. I read it 4 times over to repeat the image in my mind's eye.

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  14. Great detail on your six. Loved it! You painted such an amazing picture I could see and feel it.

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  15. Fantastic detail, pace, and voice giving wonderful insight into these damaged characters. Very nice six.

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  16. Wow, powerful six, Meg. You've accurately captured the disorder and given your characters connection. Well done. :)

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  17. Excellent bit, Meg--loved the subtlety of the violence. The description of his scars is a powerful visual, and her reaction to them draws the reader in with a kind of morbid sympathy--really, excellent. Thanks for sharing!

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