Sunday Snippet: Intersecting Angles (Urban Grit novella)

October is startingoff on something of a down note. But it's spooky season and that makes me veryhappy.

Received some sadnews this morning about one of my current authors. He had a rare form of brain cancerand passed peacefully yesterday. I'm so glad I got to know him and his story,which I hope we'll be able to share with others.

I ended up having adecent week with work projects and managed to get some other things done alongwith a good bit of writing. Have one manuscript almost finished up and I'mexcited to get it out in the world.

Pretty good week ofviewing also. I managed to make it all the way through my current roster ofshows and got one that simmers on the back burner most of the time mostlywatched.

Started the weekwith the season finale of My Life Is Murder and thoroughly enjoyed theepisode. So great to kind of have some closure for Alexa's cycle of grief. Iloved how the two-part episode played out.

Caught DI Jack'slast episode of Death in Paradise. Really enjoyed his sendoff and lookforward to the new DI's introduction in the next episode. Really have to thankmy sister-in-law for recommending this show.

Finished up thesecond half of Silent Witness. The episode took a turn I didn't expectand that always makes me happy. For a show that's been running for twenty-sevenseasons being able to surprise the audience—or at least me—is excellent.

Watched an episode of Elementary andquite liked it. It's fun to watch Sherlock and Joan navigate their living togetherand it's really awesome to see Joan stepping out and solving some of Sherlock'scold cases.

Enjoyed an episodeof The Batman with Green Arrow featuring as the Justice Leaguecharacter. This ended up being a pretty decent episode even without anappearance by Batgirl again.

Caught an episodeof Classic Rugrats. Some more new-to-me vignettes. Enjoyed all three.

Also got most of theway through a Peak Practice episode, which is the one that simmers onthe back burner when I don't have time to do a full cycle of shows. Lookingforward to finishing this one up.

That's pretty muchit for the life update this week. Tonight's post is from Intersecting Angles,a novella that carries on with the characters from Urban Grit.

Here's the miniblurb:

Keeley Fitz and Holt Matterworth are back in action andexploring a series of caves for their web drama, Urban Grit. Local legend saysthe caverns are haunted by a smuggler that won't let anyone near his stash ofbootleg rum, which is a challenge too good to pass up for the duo. But … whatthey discover has nothing to do with rum and everything to do with something mucholder and more sinister.

And a preview snippet…

Holt flung his arm outward. "That'sa terrible idea. You're really not helping." They either stuck together ornothing.Keely swung her gaze toward Holt."What. Ever. You do what you think is best. You always do." Sherolled her eyes and spun away.Holt snapped back at her. "Andyou don't? Geez, Keels, I can’t win here. You think you could cut me someslack? This decision is impossible." And who the hell knew trolls actuallyexisted or that they'd be such a pain in the ass.Keeley snorted. "Then don'tmake one." She turned and started to walk away.Don’t make one. The lightbulb went off in hismind. Why should he make an impossible choice? As long as he made adecision, right? He played the trolls words over again. This could actuallywork.

He reached out for Keeley."You know what? I won't." He glanced at the other couple. "I'mcalling bullshit. Let's go. We're all walking out of here right now." Hewrapped an arm around Keeley's waist and hoisted the equipment pack over oneshoulder.The other couple blinked and askedin unison. "Have you lost your mind."Keeley laughed and shook her head."Aw, hell, of course. He's right. This is bullshit." Shehooked a finger onto one of his beltloops. "The only answer to animpossible decision is to not choose at all. Not picking between two fucked-upthings creates a … what's it called?" She snapped her fingers. "Aparadox. That's it. If Holt rejects the options, he creates our way to get outof here, because he's making a choice to ignore shitty outcomes." Sheangled her head and met his gaze. "By choosing to forge a new path. Achoice is still a choice, right? This just happens to be something else."Her head jerked toward the first tunnel. "Come on. Let's get outtahere." Reaching down, she grabbed the backpack with the food and waterinside.The other couple picked up theirgear and fell into step behind Holt and Keeley. They barely cleared theentrance of the tunnel before a loud voice boomed overhead."Stop right there! Don't eventhink about going any further!"

This one is in thepreliminary stages but I'm excited to see what the sages come up with for Keeleyand Holt.

 

That's it for thisweek.

Cheers!

Skye