Sunday is for beginnings, when we take a look at the start of a Peter Abrahams novel including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker™. Today let’s switch things up a little and do the beginning of Chapter Two of Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue, coming July 15 and pre-orderable anytime, like this very minute drop everything.
Too late. There was nothing to be done, the fire already in its roaring mid-life stage. Mrs. Plansky realized all that but at the same time she found a hose coiled on the dock, turned on the faucet and was now sending a limp stream of water into the conflagration, somehow all the more pitiful since it was still raining pretty hard to no effect on the fire. From where she stood she could see the name of the boat, gold-painted on the stern: Lizette. The name melted away, slowly at first and then fast.
4 Comments on “Beginnings”
Greetings!
I love the imagery of this beginning, especially the line “The name melted away, slowly at first and then fast.”
Good day to all!
I agree with Wose.
Good day to all.
That’s one powerful fire if not even rain, much less Loretta! can tame it! Frightening!
I find this kinda sad.