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July – THEME: Lazy
Hazy Crazy Days of Summer
Here is my 4th of July Fireworks scene from THE VIOLIN
THE VIOLIN
#FireStarPress
by Sarah J. McNeal
Can the heart live inside a violin case? Can a message reach
across time?
Genevieve Beaumont is haunted by
dreams of a drowning man she is helpless to save. When she buys a violin and
discovers news clippings and pictures of its owner who died from downing, she
realizes he is the man in her dreams.
She travels to the little town
where he died 90 years before to investigate who he was and how he came to
drown that day. Little does she know how her own life will be tangled in the
mystery…until she steps through the threshold of time to 1927.
Fireworks Excerpt: (John and Genevieve on a boat to watch the fireworks)
He slipped his
jacket off and placed it around her shoulders. "Look up, Genevieve. Isn't
it beautiful?"
A knot formed in
her throat. She didn't know which was more beautiful, the sparkling array of
diamonds on the dark, navy blue sky or the expression on John's face as he
looked up toward the heavens. She nodded her head, too filled with emotion to
form words.
A loud boom shook
the quiet followed by a colorful shower of sparkling light that spread over the
sky above John and Genevieve. Another boom and a different color of glittering
lights shot over the sky, reflected on the glassy surface of the water. She
inhaled the acrid smell of gunpowder mixed with the musky scent of the lake
water. Although Genevieve had seen fireworks many times in her life, she'd
never seen them this beautiful. The water and the sky became one as showering
displays of colors lit the sky above them and the water reflected the fireworks
around them. Their boat became a tiny island in a world of light.
Genevieve's heart
swelled to overflowing.
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AUGUST THEME: Alone Again, Naturally
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