BLOGWORDS – Wednesday 30 April 2025 – WRITING WEDNESDAY – DOUBLE DOUBLE WHO’S IN TROUBLE – STRAY PUP
BLOGWORDS – Wednesday 30 April 2025 – WRITING WEDNESDAY – DOUBLE DOUBLE WHO’S IN TROUBLE – STRAY PUP
WRITING WEDNESDAY – DOUBLE DOUBLE WHO’S IN TROUBLE – STRAY PUP
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STRAY PUP
I had to get out of there. It was suddenly stuffy, stifling, and not because it was hot.
Jordan was right. The fire extinguisher was a threat. No, a promise. If I didn’t do what Big—Eugene wanted me to, he’d set fire to the garage. Bonus points if I was in it at the time.
This was one of those times I wished I had a bike like Jord. It would be so great to go riding together like we used to.
But the kind of bike he had was above my pay grade. Literally.
“Well, well, well.”
I skidded to a stop before I ran right into him.
“Lookie who we have here, boys.”
Wick danced around me, itching for a fight; that was Danny Shaw’s tag because he had a short fuse. Tex and Warden swung their Billy clubs, smacking them against their palms.
“Reckon it’s time for this stray pup—” Big Mac grabbed my shirt at the neck and jerked me up. “—to come home where he belongs.”
My bike toppled and I would have fallen with it but for his grip on my shirt.
“Reckon it’s best if he decides to come home on his own.” He threw me to the ground. “Help him make up his mind, boys.”
Taking a drag on his cigar, Big Mac climbed back in his shiny black Denali. Wick threw the first punch, enjoying it way too much. I couldn’t tell whose club hit me, but there were plenty of blows. And Wick never let up either.
“That’s enough boys.” The Mac stood over me, an evil grin on his face. “That should help him make up his mind.”
He climbed back in the massive vehicle, the other guys scrambling for their seats before Big Mac’s driver, Jett, raced away.
The Mac’s final display of his authority was to instruct Jett to back up over my bike.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
“I’ve always had voices—er, stories in my head. I once said I should write them all down so someone could write them someday. I had no idea at the time that someone was me!”
My characters struggle in some way for their identity. Their stories are their journey to know who God created them to be.
There is also a strong element of friends, family, and faith in all my stories, and the difference it makes to have such a support system.
· unsavory heritage series—seven generations, from Cissy to Connie, each with their own secrets, one of which is ugly and unsavory, and initiates the curse they all bear
· Seasons series—four friends, each one struggling to know the truth of just what happened when one of them plunged into the depths of the black waters of the Edisto River
· FourSquare – Four stories about four couples who also happen to be four sets of twins.
“Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light.”—Madeline L’Engle
“There is freedom waiting for you on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” —Erin Hanson
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