Sunday, February 5, 2012

Six Sentence Sunday (Feb 5)


February, people. The year is flyin', I tell you. This week flew by so fast I forgot to sign up for SSS until Thursday--oops :) If you scrolled down the list far enough to find me and make it here, thank you :)

We pick up where we left off last week--Alexia's looking at the pictures Dan, her boyfriend, is showing her of the apartment he found for them in Milan. It's been a long-standing dream of theirs to live there for a year or so while Dan works on a master's degree in graphic design. The excerpt is from my WIP, currently undergoing serious re-re-revision, RESTORING EXPERIENCE.


This was not the loft with high ceilings I’d pictured. It was bland, as impersonal as a hotel room and only slightly larger. The wallpaper looked crackly, old. Two tall and narrow windows let in subdued light. 
The third picture showed what looked like a bathroom, but I was probably holding it upside down. I turned it, but the objects refused to fall into a recognizable layout--something in a corner looked suspiciously like a stove burner, but it had to be a ceiling vent of some kind.

I promise next week we'll skip ahead to some action again :) Thanks again for the visit, and remember to visit the other Six Sundayers--excellent writing all over.

Happy Sunday!

10 comments :

  1. Oh dear, not what she was expecting then!

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  2. I felt a pit in my stomach the first time I read that!

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  3. This place is NOT living up to her expectations. Looking forward to her reaction!

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  4. It keeps getting worse and worse the poor thing!

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  5. Ventilation grate vs. stove burner... How appealing! (Well, no, not really.) Great six!

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  6. Love the description of the bathroom - or not - I hope she doesn't go. Isn't re writing fun? (not) I have to do that too

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  7. Oh my goodness... having been house hunting many, many, MANY times in my life... I can sympathize. Good luck with the revisions, sometimes that can be the best part!

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  8. Oh, geez, this place sounds ghastly! The only thing that can live there is regret. :(

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  9. Wonderful descriptions, I guess she doesn't really believe it could be so bad!

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  10. Sounds like you were in the wormhole from Hell! That happens sometimes. Seems like they have a mind and a will all their own.

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