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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Six Sentence Sunday

Today's six are from the opening of Summer's Wolf. The second book in the Westervelt series. Please make sure to check out all the 6 Sunday entries here!

Death.


Someone inside her parents’ house was dead.


Summer Morrison shut the front door with a thud and covered her nose and mouth with her hands. She tried not to gag. The stench of rotten flesh permeated through her hands, into her nasal passages and then coursed around her bloodstream. Her heart pounded and her stomach churned as its contents threatened to make an undesired reappearance.

28 comments:

  1. A great six. I love the cover, so hot!

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  2. Awesome six! You described the stench so well I went outside for some fresh air. Thank you for a great snippet.

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  3. That is such a great opening! Fabulous six! :)

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  4. I was about to eat breakfast o.O Not sure now...lol...very descriptive six!

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  5. Wonderfully graphic and nasty description! Am so with Summer right now. Well done.

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  6. Uh-oh! Well-chosen six. I'm hooked!

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  7. She is brave - I would not go in! Nicely done.

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  8. Oh nasty - yet knowing what comes next hurts my heart! Great six Rebecca!

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  9. Awful to "know" before you walk in that something terrible is inside. Great tension!

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  10. That is a creepy beginning. And as someone who works in a mortuary...there is nothing in this world that smells worse than a bad decomp.

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  11. My stomach is roiling right there with her. Thanks for sharing!

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  12. Jeez. I feel like gagging for her. *hork*

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  13. Powerful decsription.

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  14. Oh jeez, this is totally one of those 'no, don't go in there' moments, and I'm cringing before she's even found the corpse.

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  15. This is very unsettling! You captured the mood and the emotions really well

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  16. Great opening, You've described her reactions perfectly.

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  17. So vivid. I could almost smell it myself. Great six Rebecca!

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  18. Great. You really engaged all the senses here. Incredible six!

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  19. Wow. Fantastic six. Thanks for sharing.

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  20. Tense. Great description. You pegged her reaction to a T.

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  21. Ugh! You've definitely got a vivid way with words.

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  22. Uh-oh, bad news on the way, and in her parents' house, very, very bad. Powerful cliffhanger!

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