 Happy Sunday Snippetteers! It's been a lovely few autumn days here on the north coast. My dog, Finn, and I are enjoying the local parks and changing leaves. I probably enjoy the changing leaves more than he does, but he certainly is liking the cooler weather! This week's snippet comes from Whiskey and Moonshine. This snippet is part of a scene in the Smokie Mountains of Tennessee where the story takes place. **** Mal put the truck in park and rolled down the window. “Colt, you can’t walk all the way back.” “Oh, bullshit. I’ve walked across a city before.” “There are bears and coyotes and cougars.” “I lived on the streets for ten years and dealt with gangs. I’ll survive,” Colt snapped. “For God’s sake, Colt, you smell like roast beef sandwiches and three types of cheese. Every carnivore for a hundred miles is going to want a piece of that,” Mal shouted. A deer bounded out of the woods and darted in front of Colt, then bolted across the road and into the woods on the other side. Colt yelped and jumped to the side. “Whatever is chasing that deer isn’t going to be so picky as to pass up you and chase it,” Mal called. It was a mean and crappy thing to do, but he reasoned Colt wouldn’t know any better. Colt turned and stared at the woods for a few seconds before running to the truck and scrambling into the passenger seat. He wrapped both arms around himself and stared straight ahead. Mal put the truck into gear and started driving. “Colt, I—” Colt turned his head and glared at Mal, silencing him. What was he going to say? He wanted to protect Colt, not see him hurt, yet that’s exactly what he’d done. After a few minutes of silence, he knew what to say. “There is nothing in that document that can’t be negotiated. Every contract can be negotiated.”  Whiskey and Moonshine is available from Amazon and is in Kindle Unlimited and paperback. I hope you'll take a minute to check out all the other snippets on Rainbow Snippets.
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