A final Goodbye Emily excerpt

I’ve enjoyed sharing excerpts from Goodbye Emily with you as part of my fellow authors who’ve written novels that feature baby boomers, but I want to return to focusing on Woodstock. Kudos to Boomerlit Friday blog hop authors. Check out their wonderful excerpts.

Below, Sparky goes after Emily who has left Woodstock. He’s determined to find out whether she feels about him the way he feels about her. Just a couple of complications. He knows she’s a local girl, but doesn’t know where she lives or even her last name, but with Josh’s encouragement he has to find out.

What was I doing? I’d known Emily less than a day, a few hours really. Josh, Buck and I planned this roadtrip for months and now I planned to walk away from the festival.

“This is crazy, man.”

“You have to do this.”

“If Buck was here—”

“If Buck saw in your eyes what I see, how you feel about this girl, he’d tell you to go after her, too.”

“You think?”

“If you don’t try to find Emily,” Josh clapped a hand on my shoulder, “you’ll regret it the rest of your life.”

I wiped rain from my eyes and glanced back at the hundreds of thousands and the empty stage. The once-green fields and brightly colored tie-dyed shirts now melded into a sea of gray, soupy mud.

I took a deep breath and stepped across the downed fence. At the road, I glanced back and waved.

Josh waved back and shouted over the din of the pounding rain.

“Go find Emily.”

Through the steady downpour, I walked away from Woodstock determined to see this through. No matter how illogical or impractical my quest might be, I had to find out how Emily felt about me.

I followed the twisting line of side-by-side cars that led away from Yasgur’s farm. I stepped into a puddle, and my shoe sank in thick sucking mud. I pulled and my foot came out of the shoe, which I reached down and fetched with my hand. I stumbled. Soaked, literally from head to toe, I laced back up and continued my slog in the rain and through the mud.

Hope you’ve enjoyed these excerpts from Goodbye Emily. This weekend, I’ll be blogging about the late Tim Hardin, singer and songwriter who performed on Day One.

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