My Opening in Boarding, Part 1

Part of the fun I had writing Boarding was creating the opening.

I first wrote the short story Layover where Jessie meets a guy in Chicago's O'Hare Airport and spends the night with him and has a kinky time.

So for a year I thought "why in the world would she have done that?" Lol! And I knew she had been in New York earlier. I wondered, "why was she in New York?"

I kept imagining her sitting in an office, meeting with someone important. Who was this someone?

My initial paragraph had nothing compelling for me until I considered "aha, he's looking at her fashion portfolio.

"He can make her career or send her on her way in obscurity and she'd face a lecture from her boyfriend, pressuring her to end her fashion design dreams."

In my next post, I'll share the opening.