Sunday 26 August 2012

Six Sentence Sunday


Six more sentences from ‘Changing the Future’. At the end of the first week, Lisa and Paul are forced to meet again when a group of staff go to an Italian restaurant for lunch. It seemed to Lisa that Paul was making references to their past life together. Back at college, she accosts him, and asks him whether he'd made a deliberate point of mentioning her ex-boss, Ralph Glover.
 
“I’ve always told the truth about Ralph, but you refused to believe me.”
 
“But you still see him?”
 
“Why shouldn’t I?”
 
Paul looked at her for a long moment and then shook his head. “No reason—absolutely no reason at all.”
 
Somehow he’d wrong-footed her and she didn’t know how to respond.
 
Blurb: Lisa Marshall is stunned when celebrated volcanologist Paul Hamilton comes back into her life at the college where she now teaches. Despite their acrimonious break-up several years earlier, they soon realise the magnetic attraction between them is stronger than ever. However, the past is still part of the present, not least when Paul discovers Lisa has a young son. They can’t change that past, but will it take a volcanic eruption to help them change the future?
 
'Changing the Future' is available at $3.99 on Amazon
 
Read more 6 sentence excerpts from the other Six Sentence Sunday authors here.
 

26 comments:

  1. How those few simple words can hold such meaning... Lovely dialogue, Paula.

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  2. Still so much tension between them. Great six! :)

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  3. Hmmm . . . So, I'm thinking just from this six that Paul thought that Lisa and her ex-boss might be a little too friendly?

    Very nice!

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  4. Interesting interplay between them, as always.

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  5. Definitely a lot of emotional baggage between these two. Love how he puts her off balance. Great six!

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  6. I love the emotion in theses lines. Fantastic!

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  7. Uh-oh, *someone's* still bitter. I feel a brawl coming on ...

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  8. Love banter and the tension. Great six!

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  9. Nice exchange with lots of underlying tension, Paula!

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  10. Yep, lots of tension between these two. They still have feelings for each other. Wonder how long it'll take them to figure that out.

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  11. I agree with all the previous commenters, your dialogue really rocks in this scene.

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  12. You really capture the reality of a moment like this. Great tension.

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  13. Many thanks for all your comments. So glad you all feel the tension coming through. They're fighting as a way of avoiding facing their feelings for each other. And yes, the relationship between Lisa and her ex-boss plays a big part in this!

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  14. You have such a way with tension between these two characters. It's going to be a fun journey I can tell!!

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  15. I'm more curious than ever about the backstory to these two.

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  16. I have this. It's high on my TBR pile. But my Kindle for Mac seems to have transferred itself to my iPad.

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  17. I get the sense there is so much more behind his response. Such a tease, these six are! I want more! ;) Great six!

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  18. Thanks all, the tension will continue ;-)
    And Sue, hope you enjoy the book, but can't help with the Kindle/Mac/iPad conundrum!

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  19. Great writing as always. I think everyone else has said it all.

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  20. I'm enjoying your snippets each week Paula....already looking forward to next week :)

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  21. Hmmm...I'm really hoping they can forget the old hurts from their past and move on.

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  22. Can't wait to see how this tension gets resolved. :)

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  23. Nice six, Paula! :-) This was a great scene. Wonderful book. :-)

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  24. Thank you all, they will be able to move on - eventually!

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