Detective Mitchell Donovan and his partner Detective Gladys Freeman have just arrived on the scene of a car accident near Jenkins Bridge. Across the street is where Mitchell's mother died in a car wreck fifteen years earlier.
He hadn’t been out here in fifteen years. Not since his mother’s death. She’d careened off the road opposite to where they stood now. The white Cadillac that’d hung up on the tree trunk precariously near the rising river flashed through his mind. The paramedics hovering over her dead body as they tried relentlessly to revive her …
Mitchell’s fists clenched at his side.
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Nice visual of the scene. Congrats on your upcoming release. :)
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ReplyDeleteOh-- intense scene! What a great visual you conjured.
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Awww...heart-wrenching six...I can feel his pain. Great insight into his character.
ReplyDeleteOh. :( You pack a wallop in these six sentences. Such a powerful six!
ReplyDeleteGreat story and super 6 choice, Donna!
ReplyDeleteThis made me tear up. Such raw emotion in your writing.
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the upcoming release! Amazingly clear excerpt!
ReplyDeleteIntense six! Says to much! Nice!
ReplyDeleteOh man! What unbelievable emotion. So beautiful and intense. Congrads on the release. *waves*
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty tease-tastic six sentences LOL Just a little bite of emotion to make your readers want to know more, eh? Clever ;)
ReplyDelete~ Rhonda Parrish