Mayday, Mayday!..the call for help, but how can you when you were fool enough to fall into the trap.
This months #BlogABookScene is all about being
in a tight spot, needing help, danger, rescue, natural disaster,
menace, hazard, risk, peril, threat, jeopardy, medical emergency,
war, skirmish, battle, gunfight, sword fight. In Tom's case, from "Never Had A Chance" published by Prairie Rose Publications, once he fell for the practical joke that turned deadly, he had to try to repair what happened, but he has no memory of any of the events. Does he need help!
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From "Never Had A Chance"
"Where you taking me?" Tom asked again.
"To see Mary, she's one of the special girls," Pete
replied.
Slowly the two helped Tom up the steps, knocking on the door and
walking backwards into the shadow. The two made it into the darkness
just as the door opened. Light streaming out from the door outlined a
young girl, a girl with curves and substance.
"You must be Mary," Tom said, looking into intelligent and
curious brown eyes. "I'm supposed to see you." With those
words, he grabbed at the girl, throwing his arms around her. Faintly
he heard laughter and snickers behind him. Heard, but they were not
registering. The only thing that registered was the feel of this
young girl in his arms, with a figure made to be held. He bent his
head taking her lips in a kiss.
As the kiss deepened, Tom wondered if this was how his brother–in–law
felt when he kissed his sister. Tom gloried in the beauty of what was
happening, then the realization hit him that this girl was not one of
the 'ladies' as he'd been led to believe. He found himself quickly
sobering up. Then this girl, whatever her name was, pushed against
his chest. At the same time, Tom heard a man's voice calling, "Maria,
who is it?"
Letting loose of her, Tom moved back, shame coloring his face. He
pulled his hat from his head, lowering his eyes to the girl, "I'm
sorry," he started when he heard the voices behind him.
"There the bastard is," Pete whispered.
"We'll get him this time," responded George, as the click
of hammers reached Tom's ears.
Tom, at first confused, saw an older Spanish gentleman move toward
the door, then realized the man was a target. Fear for the girl and
the man completed his sobering process as he pushed her toward the
man and, drawing his own gun, stepped in front of both.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" challenged Tom
just as the two guns flashed out of the dark. He felt a double blow,
but managed to get his own gun into play, firing at the flashes. He
went to give chase, and managed to get down the first two steps when
his right leg gave out.
"Damn, I've been taken for a sucker, and I don't…," Tom
started saying, then his head hit the ground, bouncing off a rock,
then nothing but darkness.
Doris Gardner-McCraw - Author, Speaker, Historian-specializing in
Colorado and Women's History
Member of National League of American Pen Women,
Women Writing the West,
Pikes Peak Posse of the Westerners and
Western Fictioneers
Angela Raines - author: Where Love & History Meet
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2 comments:
Wonderful excerpt. I love the idea of the hero being victim to a practical 'joke'. They are a very male concept of humor and is a really original way to introduce conflict.
Thank you. The idea came from a real life practical joke, that of a cowboy being told a nice girl was a soiled dove. It happened in the 1880's in one of the mining towns in Colorado. Doris
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