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Sad eyes

            “I
think you made him up,” Gayle said, referring to Mathew.

            “Shut up, you know I haven’t.”

            “How? I’ve yet to meet him. You have
no picture of him. Maybe he’s your imaginary secret friend,” she said.

            She was laying in the grass next to
me in my backyard. I knew she was teasing. We were
drawing pictures in the clouds. We lay flat on our backs and looked into the
sky.

            “It looks like a tree.  See the branches there, and the trunk?” I
said, pointing to the big puffy cloud above us.

            “I see a clown with sad eyes?”

            “Not in the tree?”

            “No there," she pointed. "See the face and bozo
like hair. The sad eyes are there.”




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Filler

           As
she did so Linda could tell she was looking at herself in the mirror. Linda
looked up at Stella and noticed what looked like a bruise on her upper lip.

            “What’s that above your lip?”

            Stella rapidly raised her fingers to
her lip and ran them across it.

            “Can you see it?” Stella asked
concerned.

            “Is it a bruise?”

            “A tiny one. I had filler done and
it bruised on this one side. Does it look bad?”

            Stella was always looking for ways
and treatments to defy aging. Linda thought the filler made her lips look too
puffy.

            “Not too bad,” Linda lied. “Where
you surprised to see Greg at Jillian’s?”

            “Shh,” Stella whispered as she
scanned to see who was close by. “I didn’t think he would actually show up. What
do you think he told the girlfriend?”





Gem Rats--a Chick Lit novel                       Lisa Loomis                               On Amazon

Why?

             It
completely threw me off guard. He kissed me softly, hesitantly. Morgan no, I
said to myself. Tell him fuck no. He had followed the rules since I set them. I
was forced to follow them.

            “Crossover,” I whispered. “Mathew,
damn you...”

            He kissed me again before I could
get anything else out. I kissed him back. I could taste the beer and the
marijuana. I didn’t want to kiss him and I wanted to kiss him. Stop. I wanted
him to stop, and not to stop. Why,
why, why, kept
flashing in my head. No mixed messages, we'd agreed. His tongue was deep in my
mouth and his hands were roaming over my body. When he stopped kissing me my
eyes had adjusted to the darkness. I could make out his face, he could read my
confusion. He put his finger to my lips.

            “Kid, go with me,” he whispered.





Boy in a Band--a new adult novel                Lisa Loomis                             On Amazon

I shower

“I’m
glad. I was afraid you might get caught. John may not be an angel, but I pretty
much think he expects you to be,” Nicky said as she took a bite of her lunch. “Besides
you wouldn’t give up the bennies, there are too many.”

“You’re
right,” Ali said.

“I
don’t know how people cheat. I really don’t. I guess I’m old fashioned. I like
to think people fall in love and stay in love, and don’t want other people,”
Nicky said. “How do you go have crazy high school sex with architect guy, and
then crawl in bed with John like nothing happened?”

“I
shower,” Ali said, amused.





Gem Rats--a novel     Lisa Loomis     on Amazon

Go slow

            I
went to fill up my cup before leaving the keg. I picked up the nozzle and
squeezed the black lever and watched the beer come out fast and foamy.

            “That’s what happens when you
squeeze too hard. You have to go slow,” Mathew said as he took the nozzle out
of my hand, extending his hand for my cup.
            He was talking about
more than the beer tap and he knew I knew it.



Lisa Loomis (Boy in a Band--a novel) On Amazon

Stupid girl

I was shaking as I drove away. I watched him in
my rear view mirror standing at the curb, a shadow against the dark night. He
hadn’t moved when I turned the corner. It wasn’t what I expected. Not my
feelings to reveal themselves like that, or his sense of fear in hearing them. I
wanted to cry and the tears wouldn’t even come. What was I thinking? That he
would be happy about my feelings? He would feel the same? Oh my god, you stupid
girl, resounded in my head. I managed to get all the way home before I opened my car door and threw up
in my carport. 






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W's sound like V

     Roni noticed that she had very long, extravagantly painted
nails, obviously applied in a salon, and lots of gold rings on her fingers.

     “Look at your nails,” Roni said, “they’re beautiful.”

     The woman smiled obviously proud of them. Roni stirred the
frozen drink with the straw, mixing in the tequila, and took a sip.

     “It tastes good too,” Roni said.

     The couple from outside by the pool came to the bar and
asked for their tab. They paid in cash and left. Roni was the only patron in
the place now.

     “Vere ya come from?” the bartender asked.

      Roni had noticed many of the Bahamians made their W’s sound
like a V.

     “I’m staying in a house by the Bay Club,” Roni answered.

     “I know dat. I mean, where ya live?”

     “Oh, I live in New York City, I just got in yesterday."
Roni said as she wrinkled her forehead in confusion. "Wait, how would you
know where I’m staying?”

     “Erryone know. Gloria tell us a white lady rentin' da doctor's
house fo' a lon' stay. Ya not news ta us, gal,” she said, laughing heartily.

      Roni smiled. Her laugh was one of those that came from deep
down and made her whole body shake.

     “I'm Lashanda. Wha' ya name?” she asked.




Excerpt from A Horse Named Joe (a Novel)--not released yet




Set on the small island of Green Turtle Cay in the Bahama's a former investment banker at Lehman Brothers tries to find herself.




Lisa Loomis

NA

Great article in USA Today on Tuesday about the up and coming New Adult category in novels. A category that falls between YA (young adult) and Adult. It really excites me as this is were Boy in a Band and Casanova Cowboy actually fit! I have requested Amazon to add these to their Kindle self publishing, I sure hope they will. Very excited, as I continue to edit and write.



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New Adult

         He
mixed it up but his favorite was the rock and roll stuff. Some of it I
recognized from the radio, some I didn’t. He would sing now and then, but mostly
he played. His fingers moved so knowingly over the strings. As he played
his hair would fall forward over his face and he would flow with the music. While
he was so wrapped up in his music, I could observe him closely. I watched his
expression change with the chords and the song. God damn, he was good looking. Somehow
he seemed older than me, so comfortable with himself. He interrupted my
thoughts again when he set the guitar down. I hadn’t even heard the music stop.
I was looking at his lips and quickly shifted my focus to his eyes.

            “There’s that look again,” he said.

            “What look?” I asked.




Lisa Loomis (Boy in a Band--a New Adult novel) On Amazon






 Final the category is out there

Season over

Children's picture book about skiing and snowboarding



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Although the season is over many out there still have young ones who will need the courage next season.