a teaser from a work in progress

Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, author of the forthcoming Spark, tagged me in a Facebook note about this, and I decided to play along. 

The Game of Seven. The challenge is to post seven lines from an unpublished work of fiction, and most people choose their present Work in Progress. Specifically, you would:

Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript
Go to line 7
Post on your blog or Facebook page the next 7 lines, or sentences, as they are – no cheating
Tag 7 other authors to do the same

While Kool-Aid Lou dusted the well bottles and the news of hate prattled on above us, I learned that a family of Mexican immigrants living together in a dilapidated rental on the city’s eastside—less than two miles from the house I was raised in, and where Mama still lived—were executed, one at a time, their bodies scattered throughout the house, and a few of them with hands tied behind their backs with duct tape. A man in his thirties. Two women in their late twenties, one of them likely the man’s wife. Was the other woman his sister? Her sister? A family friend? Nobody knew.

I’m going to invite seven authors to do the same.