Weekend Writing Warriors ~ Stutter Creek ~ Next 8

    

 Hi everyone ~

Here are the next 8 sentences in my upcoming      romantic thriller, Stutter Creek.  It is slated for release on June 1, 2013

Following her father’s death and the collapse of her marriage, Beth retreats to the family cabin at Stutter Creek where she stumbles across the path of a serial killer and winds up fighting to stay alive.

Last week, while on her way to work the evening shift at the Water House Bar & Grill, Mandy spied a small boy standing beside the road.  She immediately slowed down to pull over and check on him.  This is where we pick up the story:
    
      The setting sun made the trees appear as black-paper cutouts in a landscape collage.

     After checking her mirrors to make sure no one was behind her, Mandy pressed the button to lower the passenger-side window.

            It was almost all the way down when a man yanked open the door and exploded into her world like a tornado into a trailer park.  Her hand flew to the gearshift, but she couldn’t engage it.  Even as her flight instinct kicked in, part of her mind was telling her this was almost certainly the same strange guy who had requested her section at the restaurant the night before.  His eyes had seemed to follow her all around the crowded dining room, and his oily stench had made him stand out like a spot of mold on white linen. 

            Mandy drew in breath to scream, her hand scrambling across the console for her phone or the gearshift, whichever came first, but he was too fast.  With lightning speed, he dove across the seat and slapped a rectangle of duct tape across her mouth.

Afterthought: I hope you enjoyed today's snippet.  Be sure to check out the other author's at the main website:
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