Snippety: The Reckoners
posted on Wednesday
Here’s another little goodie from The Reckoners….Garrie, trying to convince a reluctant team to head from home town Albuquerque to San Jose–and just now realizing that she’s not going to get them all…
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“Look, chicalet,” Lucia said, voice quiet. “You know I’m in. The shopping, right?” As if she hadn’t been with Garrie before the others had come on board, and as if she wouldn’t have gone on regardless. “But it’s maybe time to spill, yes?”
“Right,” Drew said. “Let’s hear the four-one-one.”
Garrie thought about asking him if he knew he was actually a nerdy white college student, and then–as usual–she just let it alone. She’d get over it. And it was really just her mood, her ongoing discovery that the status quo was possibly no longer the status quo.
“San Jose,” she said. “Winchester House. Our friend from last night was for real. He’s willing to pay our way.”
“Winchester Mystery House?” Quinn said, and not as though it were a good thing.
Garrie spoke quickly, overriding his pending reaction. “Look,” she said, “I know what you’re thinking. It’s a big fat hairy tourist trap. But what’ve we got to lose? It’s a free trip. There’s shopping for Lucia. And whether or not the reckoning pans out, Drew, you know there’s gonna be history behind the place.” Oh my God, she sounded desperate.
She was desperate.
There was a pause, as they all made silent note of the desperate.
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BONUS MOON PICCIE!
It was SO much better than this–I couldn’t fool the digital camera into the right exposure (must get film in my Nikon!). But I kind of like the tree looming up on the side.
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April 6th, 2010 at 02:03
FCC – my husband is an amateur astronomer and actually built an astronomy shed in the back yard where the roof rolls off etc. He’s got a camera attached to his mount and reg puts pics onto his computer (its also out there and one just for that lol)
Totally love the moon pic, they are easy to take and generally you can tell what it is you were aiming for (unlike some of my hubbys lol)
April 6th, 2010 at 05:45
What a great pic! I can almost hear the Wolfman howling or see a bat flying across the face of the moon… awesome! FFC
April 6th, 2010 at 11:53
Dihuffer, I’m glad you enjoyed! FFC!
April 6th, 2010 at 11:57
Sabina, that’s way cool about your hubby’s camera. I imagine his pics are TOTALLY AWESOME compared to the struggle I had with that camera! I love to look at the stars–I feed the horse at midnight–and am just getting reoriented in this new place after a year of being too close to the city and too closed in to get much viewing at all. Now if only I can convince Neighbor that his never-off, piercingly bright porch light is an abomination…
FFC