Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Hello, there! Thank you for hopping over from Brenda Margriet's blog. This week on the hop,  Fiona Riplee wants us to write a flash fiction of 250 words or less about a long-lost love , and we're supposed to include the words hammer , chisel , and coping saw . DESPAIR FOR A LOST LOVE by FABRYKING61 ********** Back in the day, when you were the IT dude on campus, you stole my heart without ever, even knowing it. You, the all-star tight end, and ah, what a fine tight end it was, too. You, the home run king, touching them bases with ease, grace, and skill, just as you'd done with the girls, hammering home the fact that it was with everyone but me. You, b-ball Jones, running everywhere but toward me, and giving me yet another reason to continue to Jones for you. You, track & field star in them sexy, white silk shorts that made your long, chisled legs seem even longer, and that oh, so tight tank top in red; our schools colors, ...

Thank you for hopping over from Carolyn Spear . This week, Veronica Forand wants us to do some Flash Fiction - 100 words - using spring, coffee, and lizard. Way Back When . . . It seems like only yesterday that I traveled out west for high school Senior Break. Dad had arranged that trip, but I had wanted to do what everyone else did: head down to Daytona Beach. Lake Havasu was cool. The London Bridge was there, and I'd liked to have walked across it, except that if my Aunt Anne asked and I said yes, then it meant no. I saw my first lizard while I was there. Lots of them, actually, along with a few road runners that didn't resemble the cartoon depiction whatsoever. We drove to Long Beach via the desert, and in spring it was a sight to behold. Along the way, we stopped at an honest-to-gosh roadside cafe with tumbleweed, cactus, and medieval gas pumps outside. Not being a coffee drinker, I opted for a can of Coke to get me through the last few hundred miles ...