Friday, January 8, 2010

Sneak Peek #1


On the Jukebox: "Englishman in New York" by Sting
Quote: "Okay, that's it! No more using my butt for practice kicks!" ~ Sailor Moon
Flair: Royalty


It's time for a sneak peek of one of my works in progress. Here's the first page of my memoirs part 1: Writer of Wrongs: Dork Queen Rising

Everyone’s had a Raymond Brown in his or her life; that one perpetually socially backward guy who’s so clueless that it’s pathetic. You know the type: genuinely friendly but cloyingly over eager. The sort that in order to feel accepted, all too easily becomes a door mat for others to unappreciatively wipe their muddy feet on. The kind that like a stray dog laps up the crumbs of your charity and once he detects true kindness makes you regret any magnanimous act. And to that end in each life there is always a girl like Kelly Snow.

The universe is filled with duality and Kelly Snow is one of those ambiguous anomalies – simultaneously complementary and the polar opposite to Raymond Brown. Some might say she was his female equivalent while others would argue that she was his kryptonite. It’s all in whom you ask and when they might have known the enigmatic Kelly Snow. The truth is once a long time ago Kelly annihilated poor Raymond… but more on that later. Fortunately, like other forms of life that some might deem lower he came back stronger for the experience. Yes, Raymond Brown was a lot like a cockroach that survives a nuclear holocaust; Kelly Snow… not so much.

Kelly Snow was gifted a homogeneous name equally suited to being the peppy captain of the cheer squad or the cerebral captain of the chess team. Either way it had leadership potential yet this particular Kelly was neither outgoing nor exceptionally brainy. There were some who would describe her as a bookish and introverted pantywaist while there were others who might describe her as capricious with an audacious sense of humor. Most people would say she was nondescript, born to be a background actor in the lives of more exciting people. Be that as it may this Kelly Snow was a natural born leader; she just didn’t have many followers in her early years.

In fact her parents had reinforced this idea so strongly that it led to more than a few unpleasant incidents. Kelly was a first born child and only daughter, oldest of five siblings, a princess ruling over four younger brothers in the style of a true benevolent dictator. Her father called her his little princess and her mother gave her the name of a great queen in a famous piece of literature, which Kelly strived to live up to… but more on that later.

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