Welcome to this week's snippet from OLD AMARILLO and surprise! Here's the brand spankin' new cover! <3
Now, without further ado, where were we last week . . . oh yes, in Michaela Dawson's camp on the trail, complete with coyotes, impending darkness, and gritty beans.
Michaela couldn’t have been much older than her own
mother and she had an inviting air about her. With her long almond colored hair
tied back in plaits beneath a straw hat
and a denim skirt that reached her
ankles, Michaela looked the part of an English cattle woman.
Another popping shot, closer this time, sent
Katie’s plate of gritty beans into the dirt at her feet. “Oh, I’m so sorry,”
she stammered, scrambling to pick up what she could salvage, hear heart
pounding in her ears. “I would offer to share my dinner with you to make up for
my dropping yours, but I haven’t any left that aren’t crumbs.”
“It’s alright Katie, I’ll get you more,” Michaela
said, ladling another helping of beans onto a clean plate. “You seemed mighty
hungry, did you drop your dinner on the trail?”
Katie dug into the heap of gritty beans. “No
ma’am,” she managed through the mouthful of beans. “I
threw it.”
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Poor Katie seems a tad nervous, what with all of the food throwing and dropping. I hope she gets some sustenance soon. :-) Great-looking cover!
ReplyDeleteI get the feeling Michaela's been there and knows what it's like to be running for her life from the wilder creatures. And I totally get the dropped plate. Guns are LOUD! And sudden... Even when you're expecting the noise, it can take you by surprise.
ReplyDeleteLove the cover! Poor Katie but I think she's lucky to have met Michaela. Can't wait for more of this adventure.
ReplyDeleteNice descriptive details.
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