Howdy once again,
Can't believe another week has flown by, but here we are, and here are a few more sentences from The Phantom Student. (I thought I had them scheduled to post last week, but I must've done something wrong--imagine that! Because they never went up.)
In this scene, the big man on the junior high campus, Sandy Morrison, has just strolled by Jase and Stevie's lunch table and made a rude comment because they had invited Derol Pavey, the new kid (who has Tourette syndrome), to sit with them. "Oughta be in a home," Sandy had said. Stevie-girl, our first-person-narrator, didn't take the comment lightly, this is what followed:
In this scene, the big man on the junior high campus, Sandy Morrison, has just strolled by Jase and Stevie's lunch table and made a rude comment because they had invited Derol Pavey, the new kid (who has Tourette syndrome), to sit with them. "Oughta be in a home," Sandy had said. Stevie-girl, our first-person-narrator, didn't take the comment lightly, this is what followed:
“Some
people just think they're better than everyone,” I said to the air.
Apparently my voice was louder than I thought, for all of a sudden,
Sandy turned and stared right at me. I
wanted to shrink into my jacket and disappear, but that wasn’t an option . . . so I stuck my tongue out at him. I didn’t mean to, it just happened. Maybe
I’ve got Tourette or something; can’t
control my own actions.
Jase almost fell off
the bench he was laughing so hard.
That's it for this week. The book will be released on or before October 23rd. I already have the print ARCs so perhaps it won't be much longer. I look forward to visiting some of the other blogs to check out your snippets. http://www.sixsunday.com/
