Sunday, February 12, 2012

Six Sentence Sunday #24

Welcome once again, Sixers! Got my shiny new ARCs of the print version of my romance The Reluctant Nude in the mail this week, which got me thinking about those characters again… (FYI, Max is French, hence his slightly odd dialogue.)

“When I touch you—” Max reached out his hands again, inching them forward until he touched her elbows “—you are like fireworks.” He slid his palms up, slipping them inside her T-shirt sleeves and cupping her smooth shoulders, that skin, as petal-soft as a cliché. “You are like those little sticks dipped in magnesium, that children use?”

“Sparklers,” she said, breath short.

“Your hands felt like sparklers, running up and down my body.”

“That sounds very painful," she said, faking flippancy rather poorly, in Max’s opinion.


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17 comments:

  1. "that sounds very painful" *snickers* Love it.

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  2. Ouch! I understand his point. Nice description.

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  3. Nice weave of dialogue and action. So seamless.

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  4. Interesting reference to sparklers....love it.

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  5. Congratulations on your author's copies! Evocative six, Meg. :)

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  6. I love this book. And knowing it's in print now, I have to go get a copy in that format, too. Great six!

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  7. Nice six. I'm going to go check the blurb out. Very intriguing.

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  8. That's the kind of remark I would say, lol. Wonderful snippet!

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  9. I like the sparkler reference! Clever :)

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  10. Yum. May I have some more Max, please?

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  11. I like Max's different way of speaking. It sets him apart. I also really love the comparison to sparklers. Very original.

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  12. Am totally loving the development of Max. Great six!

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  13. Love this--> that skin, as petal-soft as a cliché.

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  14. Love his dialogue.

    ALSO, I READ WILLING VICTIM AND AM TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH MICHAEL FLYNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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