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#8Sunday The Tender Bonds--

5/9/2015

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Hi and happy Mother's Day! I'm working on the final galleys for The Tender Bonds, which should be ready to release very soon. In the story, Patty goes back to the town where she was born to find her estranged father. She finds a man she doesn't know, and in coming to terms with him must come to terms with her anger.

The Tender Bonds

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In the end, he went without me. I watched him drive off and I felt it grow, this great wave of hate, a tidal wave of built-up resentment against my father. My father, to whom all trouble could be traced. My father and the booze he couldn’t leave alone. 
I understood how my mother must have felt, how that fatal flaw had soaked up her life.  How she was afraid we would both drown, she and I, in two fingers of amber liquid at the bottom of a glass. How she wanted to save us from that. And here I was, despite her best effort, drowning anyway

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Zoe Y link
5/10/2015 12:05:41 am

Nailed that mood. Well done.

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Ute
5/11/2015 08:52:05 am

Thank you, Zoe

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Veronica Scott link
5/10/2015 06:24:49 am

ELOquent. Loved it, had such a nice flow and really conveyed the emotions of the character. Great snippet.

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Ute
5/11/2015 08:52:42 am

Thanks Veronica. :)

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