Thursday, January 8, 2015

Sentence Sneak Peek - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories


The first sentence from each chapter of My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories, it's a mini summary of what you can expect to read.
Dec. 31, 2014, almost midnight

It was cold out on the patio, under the deck.”

“Someone is in the garden.”

“I didn’t tell anyone how dire shit had become.”

Elves.

“Marigold loved this Christmas tree lot.”

“It’s hard not to feel just a little bit fat when your boyfriend asks you to be Santa Claus.”

“Fairmont’s second annual Krampuslauf felt a little bit like a parade and a lot like a zombie crawl, except instead of the undead, we were dressed up like Saint Nick’s creepy buddy, the Krampus.”

“In the fifteen weeks since starting her freshman year at the University of Bumfuckville, Sophie had counted at least a dozen What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?

“The whole mess started when I lit the church on fire.”

“If you do a search for “US cities named Christmas” (which, get a life, weirdo), you’ll get five main results.”

“As Christmas stories go, this one isn’t as sad as it could be.”

“It is the custom on the Isle of Feathers for young men to leave small gifts for their sweethearts on each of the twenty-four days of Advent.”

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