Writing is like being able to put life into a snow globe. It takes the things that are too big and scary and reduces them into a form that I can put away when I want and look at from a distance. It also takes all that’s good in life and captures it into something I can take out when I want and look at close up and keep forever. It makes the bad things into something I can hold…and the good things into something I can hold onto. Both help so much that I need that little souvenir of life.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Book Blurb Friday Saturday (?!) #15

First of all, let me thank Sandra Davies for telling me that Firefox is somehow responsible for my inability to see pictures! She is absolutely right—if I go in through Internet Explorer, pictures appear out of nowhere. Amazing.

Speaking of pictures, I am VERY late getting finished with my Book Blurb Friday from Writing in the Buff! Each week Lisa Ricard Claro posts a pretend book cover, and we are asked to write an accompanying blurb of 150 words or less. I got overwhelmed this week while my muse went on vacation, but at least it’s a short one at only 87 words. Hope you have a great weekend!

~Toast~

An alcoholic mother.

A woman aching to give her dying husband one last taste of normal life.

A young paraplegic who broke his spine in a simple game of backyard football.

A teenager who decided to rough up an old man just to take his beer.

All are linked by one thing: Each drinks a simple can of beer, and each makes a toast before taking that first swig.

But is it really a simple can of beer? Especially when it always makes that toast come true?


Be careful what you wish for.  ~Anonymous

7 comments:

  1. ooooh Tammy, this sounds very interesting.
    Linda O'Connell

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  2. A magic can of beer? This is one that wasn't done-way to go!

    I've been having trouble off and on with Firefox lately too-pictures not showing, slowness loading sites, and problems with Twitter...

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  3. This is so full of wonderful possibilities---a perfect blurb to pull me in! This sounds heartwarming and fun, something that will have me laughing and crying both. Great blurb!

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  4. Very, very good, Tammy, something for everyone, and in very few words.
    Cheers!
    — K

    Kay, Alberta, Canada
    An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel

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  5. What a great idea! I need to read the book now to find out what they toasted and how it brought their lives together. Nice one.

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  6. Oh my! This sounds intriguing. Be careful what you wish for, indeed!

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  7. Great blurb and just another reason I don't drink beer.
    Jules @ Trying To Get Over The Rainbow

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