Guest Post: C.R. Moss- Fiction from Real Live

In my most recent release, Wild WestWeekend, written together with my writing partner RM Sotera, the charactersI wrote about – Cassie and Dakota – were reunited after not having seen eachother for years. They had known each other as children/teenagers, and throughlife's circumstances, lost touch with each other until Cassie returned with afriend of hers.
This story slightly mirrors my own. In January it'll be my 18th weddinganniversary. My husband and I met in middle school and became friends. We lenteach other books (I think he's the one that got me hooked on Stephen King) andtapes (I had borrowed a Heart tape from him in high school and forgot to giveit back to him before we graduated. He got it back eventually. After all, mystuff became his and vice versa.) We had a handful of classes together in highschool—honors Bio, physics, gym classes, and a history class he remembers mecutting a lot of in our senior year. After he received his driver's license andcar, he would pick me up and take me to school. We'd have lunch together onoccasion with the guys. Needless to say, we were good friends. I feltcomfortable talking to him and sharing aspects of my life.
Then there came the one moment in my life I sometimes wish I could go back andchange, but in retrospect am glad I can't, otherwise I may not be where I amtoday. He asked me out in our senior year, wanted me to go to a hockey gamewith him and some of his friends. I was dating someone at the time and for somereason told my boyfriend that I was invited to a hockey game with my guyfriends. The BF didn't like the idea of me going out with a bunch of guys, eventhough they were just friends, so I turned down the hockey date. Things becamestrained between my future husband and me. The guy I was dating ended upcheating on me several months later, which is why I sometimes wish I could goback and tell him to F-off and that I didn't need his permission to go out withfriends. But I also know that if I dated my husband in our senior year weprobably wouldn't be together today. So high school ends, DH and I go ourseparate ways.
Years later, I'm in a restaurant waiting for a friend of mine and up walks thisother man who wonders if I am who he thinks I am. Turns out it was my friendfrom high school. We started dating that weekend. Nine months later we wereengaged. Three months later, a week shy of our one year of dating, we weremarried. (No, it wasn't shotgun. He was in the military and due to be stationedin Texas in preparation for duty in Korea. So we wanted to get married beforehe went on tour.)
Even after all this time, he's still my best friend (like Cassie and Dakota arein their story). I've grown to love him more and more over the years. He knowsme better than myself. Sometimes that's not good, but most times I am gratefulfor it—keeps me from getting in trouble. He's seen me at my worst and my best.We're each other's biggest fans and staunchest supporters—though after readinga couple of my stories he's mentioned he wonders about where my mind goes, andI wonder how he can do marathons and iron-distance triathlons. We read eachother's minds a lot and have weirded out our friends when we do it around them.We laugh at the same stuff and have close viewpoints on the world around us.Don't get me wrong, we aren't tied at the hip and we still have our 'differences'and 'discussions.' But we know how to be on our own, continue to pursueseparate interests to keep our sense of self and to communicate so 'discussions'don't blow up into WW3 arguments. It's just a matter of trust, of love and ofbeing friends. And just as that is in real life, it's also reflected in myfiction.
Thanks for stopping by!
C.

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"CR Moss is one of the best story tellers I have ever read, and I lookforward to each new release!" Rie McGaha, author of Blood Line
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