It’s time for Tuesday
Tales!
Welcome back! This week
is our picture prompt week and all posts must be 300 words or under and reflect
the chosen image. Today we have a snippet from Neutral Zone, A Railers Christmas Novella, written with RJ Scott. Today’s excerpt shows us a wee bit of
Ten’s first trip back home after spending some time in a specialty rehab in
Arizona.
Thanks so much for
dropping by!
As
always, the talk at any Rowe gathering soon turned to hockey, our teams, and
how we were doing in the standings. This would, inevitably, turn into a dick
swinging contest between Brady and Jamie. I poked at the slab of saucy noodles
on my plate, the thumping headache souring my appetite. Both Lisa’s tried to
stem the hockey talk after giving me several furtive glances, but the two elder
Rowe’s were in full cock battle mode.
“…
just saying that if your attention were on the odd man skating high…”
“…difference
in a one-man or two-man forecheck….”
“…left
wing lock like Montreal and Detroit have used…”
“…New
Jersey trapped their way to how many Cup wins and never…”
“…not
every team can be a free-flowing team…”
“…get
his opinion. What do you think, Ten?”
Mads
tapped my knee with his. I lifted my eyes from my lasagna and was shocked to
discover that Mom had cleared the table and placed a massive chocolate cake in
front of me. When I looked around me everyone at the table, down to Jamie’s
little girl Bethany, were staring at me. My brain slammed down as all the words
spoken around me in the last half hour all tried to jam themselves into my head
at once.
“Uhm…I
guess I’m…the forecheck is kind of, I never…the odd man… uhm, could we…I need
to… fuck.” I buried my face into my hand.
The
deafening silence that fell over the table made my shaky breathing sound
louder.
“I
think it’s time for Ten to relax for a bit. Too much over-stimulation shorts him
out a bit,” Mads said, pushing to his feet and taking me by the elbow. No one,
not even Bethany, who was a jabber-monkey, said a thing. “Come on, babe.”
Copyright 2018
©by V.L. Locey & RJ Scott
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6 comments:
Wow. Interesting snippet. I feel the tension growing as the conversation continues. Nicely done.
Love the jabber monkey line. Great work.
Thank you Jean and Susanne!
I need to hug Ten...now.
Love the battle and the last line!
Nice scene. Great way to create the tense feelings.
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