30 April 2017

Excerpt #5 from "The Roller Rink" (novel-in-progess)

It’s just one of those things. We get the sadness. It lands on us in the middle of a good time. It perches on our shoulder, whispers in our ear.

Sometimes it takes up residency, but most of the time it sits there a while, then flies off, and you feel the burden lift and all those good thoughts return.

That’s what happened to Trevor, cuz the things I said to him, they were just playful things. Not serious things.  Just good time things. It must have been the sadness that got him. For a little while.

2 comments:

  1. Interesting novel. do you like Jonathan Franzen. I just read Strong Motion and had mixed feelings about it.

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  2. I read and enjoyed Freedom, but I haven't taken the time to get into Franzen. Planning to read The Corrections one of these days. How does Strong Motion stack up to his previous tomes?

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