tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44288106641924948762024-03-12T16:42:20.474-07:00Jai & K's ReviewsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02028812089051459286noreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428810664192494876.post-86027998823235370902017-10-24T14:19:00.000-07:002017-10-24T14:19:09.394-07:00Reveal Blast for Sons of the Sphine<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://image.ibb.co/h68avm/Sons_of_the_Sphinx_Cover_FINAL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sons_of_the_Sphinx_Cover_FINAL" border="0" height="640" src="https://image.ibb.co/h68avm/Sons_of_the_Sphinx_Cover_FINAL.jpg" width="414" /></a><span id="freeText3172245220558899368">Armed with what she considers her grandmother’s curse, 15-year-old Rosa agrees to help the ghost of King Tut find his lost queen Hesena. Thrust back into Ancient Egypt with Tut, Rosa discovers that finding Hesena is not all she must do. She must keep out of the reach of the living Horemheb - who crosses mortal boundaries using Seth’s evil magic - if she is to stay alive to make it back home.</span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-0c018fff-3676-4f8a-60eb-14d3672b8627" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My body touches solid ground. Voices, whispers really, penetrate my clogged brain. I hope this is heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-0c018fff-3676-4f8a-60eb-14d3672b8627" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No way! “Hey, Tut. This sphinx still has its nose. This isn’t The Sphinx.”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-0c018fff-3676-4f8a-60eb-14d3672b8627" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What are you saying, Roosa? Come and help me clear the sand away from the stele.” “I said, this isn’t The Sphinx. It still has its nose.”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-0c018fff-3676-4f8a-60eb-14d3672b8627" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No. You don’t understand,” I protest. “The Sphinx in my time has no nose. It’s been broken off for centuries.”</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-0c018fff-3676-4f8a-60eb-14d3672b8627" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I jerk my head up searching for the voice. I glance at Tut, but he continues to dig.</span></b></div>
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<br />KayCee_Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678361428987225586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428810664192494876.post-61377132333752197962017-09-28T03:30:00.000-07:002017-09-28T03:30:09.791-07:00Guinevere: At the Dawn of Legend<br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-53d9001b-b4d4-f122-b6a8-e61c39c20fa5" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-2c37045e-b4dc-e92f-0e90-2d3a0bed1912" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Samuel followed Guinevere, having chosen to ride beside Aaron. His tears dried, but the anguish not buried with his family. The grief was clearly evident in his hunched body, the anger in his clenched fists on the pony’s reins. Cedwyn worried about the boy’s state of mind.</span></b></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-53d9001b-b4d4-f122-b6a8-e61c39c20fa5" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-2c37045e-b4dc-e92f-0e90-2d3a0bed1912" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cedwyn brought up the rear. His eyes noted every movement. Ears tuned to the echoes of the forest, head swiveling at each movement and sound. Fear had taken permanent hold over his body—a feeling he was certain should have been as foreign to him as it would have been to Arthur’s knights. Cold fear tightened its grip on his heart and throat. Those who would kill the gentle monks would stop at nothing. Now the little group rode in the dark, a time when all earthly creatures took on the pallor of ghosts, and hidden danger lurked all around them.</span></b></b></div>
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<br />KayCee_Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678361428987225586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428810664192494876.post-55542331919417800782017-09-25T02:30:00.000-07:002017-09-25T19:28:39.526-07:00Reveal Blast - Guinevere: On the Eve of Legend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-53d9001b-b4d4-f122-b6a8-e61c39c20fa5" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-6452cf5f-b4e6-4661-d2fc-d6b29332755c" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arthurian stories are steeped in legend. While perceived as fiction, legends often contain elements of factual happenings. It is left up to readers to decide if they believe or not.</span></b></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-53d9001b-b4d4-f122-b6a8-e61c39c20fa5" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-6452cf5f-b4e6-4661-d2fc-d6b29332755c" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the Arthurian tales I write, I always add one or two of my own legends. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guinevere: On the Eve of Legend</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> contains one of my favorites: The Legend of the Red Deer and the Unicorn. I’ve recited this story at readings and at Medieval Festivals where I have been the storyteller. Here it is:</span></b></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-7d496dcf-41de-6c23-b6a9-188567221c62" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> But, of course, she knew it was true. After all, she had a sixth sense about things such as this. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Damn, Nick. Why? How?</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-7d496dcf-41de-6c23-b6a9-188567221c62" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It had been several months since she had taken in his disheveled form, those cowardly eyes scanning her face, pleading for forgiveness from the other side of the depressing, stained, plastic divider at the county jail. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-7d496dcf-41de-6c23-b6a9-188567221c62" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forgiveness that was difficult to give, although she had been working on it. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Too late, Nick. It’s way too late for you now. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part of Naomi’s heart ached for Nick’s troubled soul. For the troubled child he had once been. </span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another part turned cold as she conjured up his face in her mind. As she had woken from a fitful night’s sleep, the image of Nick crying out, lost in the empty dark place where challenged souls lacked peace and closure, was too overwhelming to dismiss as a bad dream. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Bryce.” Naomi spoke his name aloud, even though her fiancé was most likely sound asleep at his house just up the dirt road. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She needed Bryce. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Naomi knew Bryce would have to wait. Right after her first cup of coffee, she would have to call Officer Marty to confirm the facts of what she already knew to be true. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One with attitude. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Memories of the not so distant past slammed Naomi. Images of Ryan and Maggie . . . </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This time the spirit was unsettled, tortured—and to make matters even more daunting . . . </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was her ex-boyfriend. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moments after she hung up the phone with her friend, Officer Miriam Marty, Naomi reached for her coffee mug but then placed it back on the counter with a gentle thud. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was, indeed, dead. But the strange thing about it was that it appeared to have been intentional on his part. It was too early to say, but Miriam suspected that traces of drugs would be found in his system.</span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-7d496dcf-41e0-ab7a-9808-f0340fac1453" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryce: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(laughs) Actually, I hate to admit it, but no. I think one of the very things that drew me to Naomi is her gentle, generous soul. I believe that’s why these lost souls gravitate toward her. And, hey- life never gets boring, that’s for sure.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DDB: Yes, absolutely. I do recall her determination, but I also remember the paranormal became all consuming for Naomi in the book, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maggie. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That must be difficult to deal with.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryce: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Naomi sets her mind on something, she gives it her all. What could be more admirable? Sure, at times, it’s frustrating, but when you take a step back and consider the big picture, it’s all worthwhile. I wouldn’t have her any other way. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DDB: Why do you suppose these ghosts are connected to Naomi, I mean, I know she’s a kind soul herself, but have you ever considered there could be another reason?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryce: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes- it’s in the works now. This will be the last in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maggie </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">trilogy. This one had really opened my mind to all of the possibilities of fate, destiny and the paranormal. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DDB: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sounds amazing. I can’t wait to read it. Thank you, Bryce, it’s been wonderful talking with you. I can’t wait to see what you and Naomi have in store for us next. Is there a title to the upcoming book that you can share?</span></div>
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<br />KayCee_Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678361428987225586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428810664192494876.post-54296449914864750162016-11-29T06:00:00.000-08:002016-11-29T06:00:00.173-08:00Young Knights of the Round Table Blog Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gavin’s gaze was drawn back to the castle’s battle-scarred walls and the heavily armed guards. The evil emanating from the structure surrounded and held him captive, like a lone deer surrounded by hungry wolves in the dead of winter, unable to move, its eyes glassy with fear, its limbs frozen by the hypnotic gleam of the wolves’ yellow eyes. Even knowing its life was ending, the deer wouldn’t break and run. So Gavin sat frozen in front of the castle.</div>
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The enormity of his quest enveloped Gavin and he sighed. Continuing on meant he might save the Wild Man, but he might put himself in danger as well. King Edward was his father’s enemy and possibly responsible for Aldred’s murder. If Gavin were caught, Edward wouldn’t treat him kindly. The young prince summoned his courage and focused on the Wild Man. It had seemed so simple last night in the company of Bryan and Philip.</div>
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Looking at the stack of chopped wood, he smiled sadly. Two years ago he would never have dreamed he’d be here, chopping wood for food and a dry place to sleep. He shook his head at his thoughts, his shaggy, ill-cut black hair falling unevenly across his forehead. Two years. It seemed like forever.</div>
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Two years earlier, he had lived with his parents and baby brother on their small farm up north. His parents worked hard to put food on the table and to pay off the farm. Philip’s main job was to watch baby Benjamin while his mother helped his father in their small field. When Benjamin fell sick, Philip helped his father clear the old stalks and rocks from the soil while his mother nursed the baby. He helped his father carefully plant the winter wheat and barley for harvest in the spring.</div>
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As autumn slipped into winter, Benjamin hadn’t gotten better. His tiny body burned with fever. Those last few days when Philip held him, the heat coming from Benjamin threatened to slowly engulf him like the embers of a dying fire.</div>
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In the depths of the ocean a war is brewing. Ka Moho-ali, ruler of the sharks, has joined forces with the ruthless Lua Pele to destroy Queen Tessa and the city she loves and protects. But Queen Tessa holds a secret that could change everything. Will revealing this knowledge be enough to pierce the darkest of hearts?<br />
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Dr. Fairfield is a licensed psychologist with her doctorate from Northern Arizona University.<br />
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Tara grew up in Southern California and loves being near the ocean. Some of her fondest childhood memories are of swimming and snorkeling around Catalina Island. She has three grown children, three grandchildren and four dogs. Life is good!<br />
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When she's not writing, you'll find her having fun on the ocean, playing with her dogs or just hanging out with family in the Pacific Northwest. </div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4ab01908-6a17-eedf-d8fb-d3f37881d497" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Answer three: Well, it was dark (haha). But seriously, it was the most frightening thing you can imagine. Disoriented. Misplaced. Bound. Short of breath. And even if you’re not claustrophobic, you feel it in that moment. I wouldn’t wish that fate on my worst enemy.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Question one: Tell us a little about yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Answer one: My name is Jeremy Simons. I live in Grayson, Louisiana, with my wife and three daughters. I’m a horror/suspense author with Twilight Terror Press, a subdivision of Celestial Waters Publishing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Answer four: Writing-wise, my biggest inspiration will always be Stephen King. Another would be R. L. Stine; I still have all of the original Goosebumps series tucked away (but don’t tell anybody, HaHa). But in life, I’m inspired by anyone who is just willing to recognize their dreams, work at them, and do what is necessary to achieve them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Favorite Author: Stephen King</span></div>
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Jeremy Phillips has lived and worked in Spokane, Washington for most of his life. When he isn’t writing or keeping busy being a father and husband, he works as a Respiratory Therapist at several different hospitals. He lives in Spokane with his wife, children, dogs, and bonsai trees. This is his second novel.<br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-708235dc-82b8-8884-ad2c-64ecb9f91ba6" style="font-weight: normal;">I write because I enjoy it, and I feel compelled to express my ideas in written form. I have always been a big reader, and I enjoy exploring the idea of writing, creating stories that I would find myself reading if I were the one doing the reading.<br /> </b><br />
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<b><i><br /><br />What was the hardest thing about writing your latest book?</i></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-708235dc-82b8-8884-ad2c-64ecb9f91ba6" style="font-weight: normal;">The hardest thing about my new book, and perhaps the most fun thing, was doing some good research on the historical period in which it is set. The story is set in 1893, so we’re talking post-Old West stuff. It’s not the chaotic Gunslinger West, but it also isn’t the modern America, either. So that’s an interesting time to write about, as there would have been elements of both, Old West and Modern, present in such a time and place. And often, those two elements would not get along nicely.<br /><br /><br /><i><b>How did you develop the idea for ‘The Rose Delacroix Files Book One: The Lost Eye of the Serpent’? </b></i><br /><br />To be honest, I originally wrote the story with the idea in mind that the kid detectives in the story would be younger than they ended up being. But as I started to write the story, I realized that if Rose and Jon were actually fifteen years old, then they would be on the cusp of adulthood. People grew up fast in those long-ago days, and these kids would be expected to be nearly adults at that age. With the two protagonists as near-adults, the story ends up being much richer and more interesting. Rose would be expected to be looking around for a suitor to marry and start a family with, either that year or in her very near future. This is an expectation that Rose rejects soundly, as she has a much more modern view of what a woman can be and can do. She ends up rejecting a lot of expectations of her time, and for the reader, that will give them a window into her world, too.<br /><br /><i><b>What is your main character like? </b></i><br /><br />My main character is Rose Delacroix, who is a young woman of fifteen, who stubbornly believes that women can do the same things that men can do, if they feel like it. In her case, that involves wanting to become a detective like her hero, Sherlock Holmes. As the story develops, especially throughout the other books in the series, she will grow into becoming something larger than that; but at first her intention is to become like Sherlock Holmes. The story is told through the eyes of her brother Jon, who is her twin brother, and who takes an almost Watson-like role in Rose’s story, to Rose’s Sherlock Holmes.</b><a class="e-widget no-button" href="https://gleam.io/mh3l9/rose-delacroix-and-the-lost-eye-of-the-serpent" rel="nofollow">Rose Delacroix and the Lost Eye of the Serpent</a>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dale Mayer is a
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<span style="font-size: large;">Psychic Visions and Family
Blood Ties series. Her contemporary romances are raw and full of passion and
emotion (Second Chances, SKIN), her thrillers will keep you guessing (By Death
series), and her romantic comedies will keep you giggling (It’s a Dog’s Life
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her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books
available on resume writing, companion gardening and the US mortgage system.
She has recently published her Career Essentials Series. All her books are
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.98px;">Part of an elite SEAL team, Mason takes on the dangerous jobs no one else wants to do – or can do. When he’s on a mission, he’s focused and dedicated. When he’s not, he plays as hard as he fights. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.98px;">Software developer, Tesla lost her brother in combat and has no intention of getting close to someone else in the military. Determined to save other US soldiers from a similar fate, she’s created a program that could save lives. But other countries know about the program, and they won’t stop until they get it – and get her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">How could her rescuer see anything?
The sky was overcast and even the moon was covered. She could barely see <i>him</i>. And he stood in front of her. She
definitely couldn't see anything around them. Her clothes were black, but she
knew her face had to glow in the dark – especially shining with sweat like it
was.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">Not a good day to shine.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">Her droll humor helped her regain her
sense of balance. She knew she could be off and running any second and needed
to be ready. Unfortunately her body wanted to slide to the ground and collapse.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">"Rest. We have two minutes then
we're off again."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">She didn't waste the energy nodding.
Two minutes wasn't enough time to catch her breath <i>and </i>respond.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">She focused on her mental state
instead. If that was strong the rest would follow. She hoped.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">At the two-minute mark, she was hauled
to her feet and dragged on another marathon through the bush. Why? If he'd been
able to rescue her, why wasn't he able to get her picked up and shipped out to
safety?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">When he shoved her down behind a log,
she knew she wasn't getting up again.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">Not willingly. She closed her eyes
and willed back the tears of exhaustion.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">Damn.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">"You okay?" That low deep
note of concern had her opening her eyes and lying. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">"I'm fine," she whispered.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">His smile of appreciation warmed the
coldness inside. When his grin widened, flashing his white teeth, and he
whispered, "Good, let's go again," she groaned.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">"Once more," he promised,
helping her over the log they'd been hiding behind.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">She didn't believe him but forced her
legs to move. But instead of a run they stumbled. Instead of landing softly
they came down hard, stilted. He reached out a hand. She put hers in it, loving
the way his hand, fingers closed over hers as if he could impart some of his
strength, his endurance to her.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">Maybe she was gaining strength from
him as her feet seemed to cooperate better, and she could pick up the pace.
When they stopped the next time, she slid in a weak heap to the ground. She
huddled up into a ball and closed her eyes.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">When had she last hurt like this? Had
she ever hurt so badly? She didn't think so. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">Her rescuer crouched beside her and
said, "We're waiting for a pick up. Should be in ten minutes." His
voiced deepened. “We’re in Mexico and need to get across the border fast.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">She lifted her face to his and wanted
to cry. Mexico? Oh no. She wanted to be home. Away from this nightmare. Were
they driving out? Flying out? By donkey? Maybe she didn’t want to know. But
whatever method she wanted to go now.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">His finger stroked down the side of
her cheek. "You're doing just fine."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">"Doesn't feel like it. Feels
like you ripped my ribs out and made me walk on them," she muttered.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: large;">His grin widened. "You got
spunk. I like that."</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Growing up, Hawk was always a bit of a wild
card. Once he became a SEAL, he found his niche in the world. But the wild man
was still there, under wraps …and waiting for a match. Back home for a few
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<span style="background: white;">Mia remembers her best friend’s brother. After
all, what woman could forget him? He was like fireworks lighting up her life.
Taking her breath away and making her heart beat faster. But the version that
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<span style="font-size: large;">She turned away and saw her father awake. Bursting into
tears, she raced to give him a big hug.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I’m so glad you’re okay,” she said through her sobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I’m so very glad you and Hawk were both there to help.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Good. Glad he did.” Her father reached up and rubbed his
temple. “My head is pounding. It’s going to be days before I feel up to opening
the store.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Are you still going to?” she asked quietly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He raised an eyebrow. “Why wouldn’t I?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Well, your brother was shot in the store, it was ransacked,
the guns were stolen and your cache at home was also stolen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She nodded but inside it bothered her. “I’m not sure I like
the idea of you selling guns anymore.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“You never did.” He pursed his lips and studied her.
“Nervous now? That’s not like you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Watching those men…” She shuddered. “It did make me think.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Lucky you, you’re free to leave,” he said. “What are you
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<span style="font-size: large;">“As you’re fine and safe here, I’m going home. I got a pass
from the doctor as long as I rest.” She stood up and reached over to hug him.
“Love you, Dad.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Love you too, Mia.” He smiled up at her. “This will be a
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I hope so.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With a small wave, she turned and walked out. Her energy was
flagging. She needed to grab a cab. Outside she realized it was late. How was
it she hadn’t understood that? Just staring out at the dark night she realized
she probably should have stayed for the night. But that was fear talking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Better to go home and face it. Now, should she go to her
place or to her father’s house? No, she wasn’t going back there for a while.
She needed time so she wouldn’t see her father’s body lying crumpled on the
ground every time she was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Outside the hospital, she stood at the front doors and
stared across the parking lot. There were cabs waiting on the front curb. She
walked over to one, but it drove away as she approached.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walk around it but a man hopped out. She shifted out of his way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The man called out to her. “Excuse me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She spun and looked at him, “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I think this is for you.” He held out a package.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She frowned. “From who?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“A guy in a black Jeep.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her face lit up. Hawk. “Oh,” she said hopefully and reached
out to take it. “Thank you so much for delivering–”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She never saw the blow, never felt the air cut off from her
lungs. Nor did the pain hit her awareness quickly. Instead it was like a slow
motion movie as she watched her body fall into his waiting arms. She knew
something was wrong but couldn’t seem to connect the weird grip on her neck
with the numbness of her legs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His voice, concerned and helpful, called to her. “Oh dear.
Are you all right? Here, let me help you up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was boosted into the back seat of the truck where she
toppled forward into the foot well. Her head hit the seat cushion and bounced
off to slide to the floor. She lay there, her eyes open, her brain aware, her
mind no longer functioning.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Since Dane achieved his lifelong dream of
becoming a Navy Seal, his life has been packed with action ... but now he wants
more. Especially after seeing several of his friends find something – someone –
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<span style="background: white;">On a mission hunting a chemical weapons
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his deepest needs. But the circumstances are suspicious, and he can’t determine
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<span style="background: white;">Marielle came to Germany for a short busman’s
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into the arms of a man she knows she’ll never be able to keep.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She glanced back at her work then out to the hallway. “I
don’t know what I can do. I can’t destroy the information as it is kept on
servers I can’t access. They have backup files everywhere.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Right. So maybe give it to the source that might be able to
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<span style="font-size: large;">She sent him a wry glance. “You mean the government.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I can’t see Tenesco liking any government interference.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">She blinked. “I hadn’t thought of that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Or the reverse. Nothing can be determined right now. In
fact, I think we’ve been here long enough.” He stopped and cocked his head. “Is
there a back way out of the building?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Actually there is,” she said in surprise. “I used to use it
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<span style="font-size: large;">He stilled. “What coworker?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Dave. He had a thing for me and wouldn’t take no for an
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Why haven’t we heard about Dave before?” He tried to tone
down the harsh tone, but it was damn hard when he was only just now getting
this information. Cell phone in hand, he was already texting his team. “What
was Dave’s last name, when did he work here, what was his relationship with the
rest of the company?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Late for what,” she asked in bewilderment. “Where are we
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Out. We’ve been here too long.” And instinct was screaming
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<span style="font-size: large;">“We need to go,” he snapped, turning back to find out what
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was back at her desk and clicking buttons. Then she
pulled out drawers to collect her belongings. She grabbed up the pages she’d
collected off the floor and stuffed them into her bag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I’m almost done,” she cried softly. “It needs another
minute.” She stared up at him, her eyes huge orbs. “What’s wrong and why the
panic now?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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protesting. “Which way to the back exit?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Series: The Masters M.C. Book: #1<br />
Subtitle: Property Of<br />
Author: B.B. Blaque<br />
Genre: M.C. Romance/BDSM/Erotica/Suspense<br />
Release Date: February 9th, 2016<br />
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Blurb:<br />
A Riches to Doo Rags Story<br />
Sometimes the wrong side of the tracks is the right place to be.<br />
The Masters M.C. #1-Property Of <br />
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Fall in love with Tuesday and Colt...and with the Masters M.C.<br />
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Embark on a journey that begins with a dusty pair of boots and a near collision on the side of a foggy, country road.<br />
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Meet a different kind of American motorcycle club—part outlaw, part BDSM Master, all code and heart.<br />
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Tuesday has been running on empty for years, that changes when she almost literally collides with Colt, the president of THE MASTERS M.C. <br />
A born outlaw, Colt has created something new, and Tuesday finds herself wondering if the <br />
sexy, tattooed biker is a sinner, or saint, as she rides on the back of his Harley, <br />
into a world she could never imagine.<br />
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Running from a past she didn't want, one she didn't dare know, and fearing for her life. She learns NOT ALL FAMILY IS BLOOD related, and some of the deepest roots are forged in LEATHER, INK & CHROME.<br />
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When a suit wearing PSYCHOPATH from the past comes to claim her, she glimpses first-hand the protection her new, leather-clad family has to offer.<br />
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WITNESS...<br />
The initial buds form on the family tree, and the brutal, suspenseful ride toward the birth of a new breed of biker.<br />
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FEEL…<br />
As the first seeds are sown to grow the sassy, would-be debutante, into the slave Colt knows will make the bloodshed worthwhile.<br />
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LEARN...<br />
Along with Tuesday, what both lifestyles are really about, on her journey to becoming…PROPERTY OF<br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-49c19a50-cff5-6c2e-210d-0259256155c6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">INTERVIEW with the co-founders of the Masters M.C. Colt Daniels (president) and Kash Kendrick (the first sergeant at arms/enforcer)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I took a list of questions over to the Whipping Post, the dungeon owned by the Masters M.C. Rather than interviewing Colt myself; I decided to ask the girls in my Facebook group, Old Ladies of the Masters M.C., to come up with questions they’d want answered. I gave the lists to Kash, and he’s doing the interview while I hang out with the ladies (I’ve missed them!)</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-49c19a50-cff5-6c2e-210d-0259256155c6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Dude, okay, so B.B.'s girl Crafty Minx wants to know if you're pumped for this book to come out."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Kicks back and throws his feet up on a stool)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Chick asks a good question, I mean, the world is gonna know our shit."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"They'll only know the shit I told B.B. Ya know—club business is club business." (Exhales cigarette) "Besides brother, the old shit I told her is so ancient and no one can prove dick..."</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-49c19a50-cff5-6c2e-210d-0259256155c6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Oh, ya don't say? Since when was there a statute of limitations on murder, dude?"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Don’t get your boots in a bunch! You told her your shit too, brother. That was some fuckin’ darkness there!" </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Swallows his beer hard, takes a drag on his smoke.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Like I said, nothin' can be proven. I'm not worried."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "I got your back, brother, ya know, just in case."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt rolls his eyes, thinking back to the last time he heard that statement.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "The club is gonna explode after this--we think we got a lot of chapters now. Hold on to your apes motherfucker—this shit is just gettin' started!"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Dude—ya know with this comin’ out there’s gonna be some attention rollin’ in your direction. Do you think the green-eyed gremlin is gonna creep up and fuck with you and your girl?”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “You know better than that, brother.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “One of the old ladies…chick by the name, Sweet T, asked. I know how shit is—but I also know you’re a possessive sonofabitch!”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “No one is gonna get near my girl—period—end of story! She knows that, I know that, and any man who tries will learn it in a New York second, brother. You know we take care of shit.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt stands up and walks around the play area, past the tractor and over to Tuesday. He kisses the top of her head and goes to sit back down.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There’s no need for jealousy. She knows I’m not going anywhere—and neither is she. People look—whatever…put your hands on what’s mine and bad shit happens.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Speaking of jealousy, dude, another one of the chicks in the Old Ladies' Clubhouse wants to know...." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Holds paper against his chest and smirks) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"If she can lick your abs..." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Chuckling)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Smiling, swallowing a sip of beer.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Yeah, she can lick my stomach… </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Laughing,)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">…I mean she has to drink somehow right?" </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt looks to Kash who nods in agreement.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Lemme see that paper, what's the chick's name(Colt looks at the questionnaire,)....Edith...okay, baby...get a glass of water…not too cold…and get down and crawl to me…don’t spill or you’ll have to go refill it."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Dude, she's got a glass of water, how is she gonna crawl?"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Edith baby, you wanna figure it out don't you?" </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(To Kash,) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Where there's a will, there is a way. Rember, you get them, to come to you."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Still laughing, rolling his eyes at Colt.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tough Cookie and another one of the chicks, ‘Nilla, wanna to know if the club is what you visualized, like was it what you expected. Would you have done anything different? Did you imagine your life like this when you were a little punk-ass hangin’ around the clubhouse? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Kash bursts into laughter.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That’s a question for both of us, brother. We did this shit together…but, I think B.B. covers a lot of that in the book—don’t wanna step on toes here. And, what makes you think I was a punk-ass? I was Redhook’s kid after all! I dreamed of bein’ president of the Malevolent M.C. one day. All I knew was club life—biker born and bred baby—it’s all I ever imagined.” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt drags hard on his cigarette and slugs back some beer.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I could never imagine this thing we started—who the fuck could? Well, now maybe some kids might, but no, not in our day.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“From my side, how ‘bout this brother…We fuckin’ grew up in this shit, this was who we always were…Shit changes man, we totally changed. The dude I was when we started this shit is totally not who I am now. I was a kid—now I’m a man with a mission. The club changed me.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Look at you getting’ all philosophical and shit—damn, brother, have you been talkin’ to your dad?”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Scratches his goatee, sips some beer and swallows.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“As for changin’ shit—no, I wouldn’t. The shit that went down had to happen. It’s the life, ya know, man? Now, it’s all worth it—blood under the bridge. We are who we are—have the bonds we have—because of all the bullshit, all the bloodshed.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Dude, I’m gonna put a few of these questions together. They’re about your girl, Tuesday.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Kash shuffles the paper, looking for the questions to merge, sitting up in his chair.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“They wanna know how you feel about parading her around, like showin’ her off and shit…” (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kash looks over the paper at Colt.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Not that anyone minds seein’ her all hooked up to the St. Colt’s Cross or the tractor—just sayin’, dude.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “And? Not for nothin’, but that’s just part of bein’ in our family. I don’t get the question.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Brother, I get it, but people who don’t know the club may not it. The whole world could know about all your personal shit, man. How do you feel about that?”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Around our place—bein’ naked and on display, bein’ here at the Post on display—it’s just day to day life. Doubt you’re breakin’ out with wood when you see her—it is what it is.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Sips beer—looks over at Tuesday sitting at the bar with Serenity and me.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “And what I’ve got with that girl—I fuckin’ want the world to know! Never thought I’d find a chick like her, a slave like her—well, there isn’t another Tuesday. That little fireball is my reason to live, breathe and be a better fuckin’ man. So, fuck, tell everyone—I will! …Tuesday Grace—I fuckin’ love your fiery little ass!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He calls to Tuesday, who beams with pride.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Okay, Casanova, are we gonna do this or what?” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Kicks his boots back onto the stool and looks over the questions.) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“These ladies have more questions…about us.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where did Kash go? You’re bein’ all fuckin’, Mr. Secretary. I’d think Hard Drive was here.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt shoots a look in my direction. Maybe I should’ve done the interview)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No, dude, I am not uptight like that.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Kash leans into Colt and whispers.) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Dude, she’s writin’ my shit now, I don’t wanna piss B.B. off—chill the fuck out.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Back to the interview questions.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“They wanna know how we became friends. Be careful with what you say here, brother. I’ve told B.B. the heavy bullshit that really cemented things with you and me. She’s puttin’ it in my story.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Long story short…my Pops, Redhook and Kash’s dad, Graffiti, came up together in New York. They went to ‘Nam together. They were part of two different clubs—one west coast, the other east—and from that, we were sorta friends by birth. Our brotherhood—true friendship—is something B.B. will tell ya about. Again, not gonna piss in her cereal.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Okay, okay—don’t go pissin’ in anyone’s cereal, besides—you know that’s my move!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Here’s a lighter question and, dude, this one’s funny. ‘Colt, would you ever cut your hair?’”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “What’s so fuckin’ funny? I do cut it, for Locks of Love, but then I grow the shit right back. I’m almost allergic to scissors—they’ll bury me with my hair—but for a good cause, yeah.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Gimme that, brother! You’re makin’ shit up now….” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt grabs the paper from Kash)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Oh, here’s one—I think it’s for you…” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt chuckles and looks at Kash.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Kash…brother, what is your darkest fantasy?”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “No, dude, this is your interview! They wanna know about my dark fantasies they need to meet me in your story first—you know I’m not lyin’, brother!”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Point taken, brother—you’re right on with that.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “What about your darkness?”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I don’t look at my stuff as being dark or light—it just is what it is. I’d wanna know…” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt grabs the paper,)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Who asked that…?” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Scans paper.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Bats, what do you consider dark, babe? I don’t think of what I do, or fantasize about as being dark.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“While you’re talkin’ to Bats, she had another question.” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Points to the list,) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Right here, what do you look for in a slave?”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “That girl right there—my old lady—Tuesday. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt points to Tuesday.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What made her so special was that beautiful strength she has—just fuck—it really is incredible. I love that once she knew the deal, she was open minded and trusted enough to let me control the ride—she was still a handful, but I like her that way. I mean controlling a breeze is one thing, but for a motherfuckin’ hurricane to rest at your feet because it wants to, can’t help itself—at the end of the day—that makes it all the sweeter!”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This is a good question, dude. What fact about us surprises people the most?” </span></b></div>
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Fuck, dude, right?”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Kash returns with two beers)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No shit, where to begin? They think we’re criminals—well, we were, but not like what they thought. We took care of shit within our world—we didn’t fuck with Joe-Blow Citizen.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Colt lights another cigarette and slips the new beer into a koozie)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“They think ‘cause we’re all tatted out, and ride bikes with loud pipes—we’re scary. Fuck—be more worried about the motherfucker at the bank, the one fidgeting in line with the suit and blank stare. That sonofabitch doesn’t have a soul. Those pricks can play dress up—wolves in fuckin’ wool suits—but it doesn’t change who the fuck they are.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(This question obviously hit a nerve.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “They have no idea about the good shit we do—for our own and for the community—right, dude? They don’t hear about those things.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fuck that shit, man! That’s why we live in a world we fuckin’ created.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Next question, brother. We could rant about this shit all damned day!”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KASH:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “This one is different,” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Kash shows Colt the paper. Colt looks a little uneasy.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COLT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Damn, we haven’t really talked about kids—not sure it’s in the cards for us—but never say never, right?” </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">About the author</span><br />
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I live the BDSM lifestyle, as a submissive, and have for many years, so when I write it comes from knowledge of the subject matter. I have also been involved, in some way, with bikers, and motorcycle clubs since I was a teenager. What I write doesn’t come from research; it comes from living the lifestyles and writing what I know.<br />
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I write beautifully flawed characters who ultimately find, perfection is not a prerequisite. Our flaws are what make us unique and some flaws complement each other better than others.<br />
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I love BDSM (Male dominant/female submissive.) There's something that just feels so right about a man wearing the pants (especially when he wears them well and fills them nicely.) I am interested in the psychological aspects of relationships in general and especially when there is a power-exchange dynamic. <br />
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My world would stopping revolving if not for heavy rock music (and the wonderfully talented people who make it.) Music and it's makers will definitely be strongly visible in my work. I listen, I remember...I listen, I'm inspired...to write...to love...to fuck...to live.<br />
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I hope I will weave these things together in ways people will enjoy and connect with.<br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-e5924b66-afec-58d4-0817-c4deaa4d9d75" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Krysten Lindsay Hager is the author of the Landry’s True Colors Series, a clean reads young adult series and the new Star Series. Krysten writes about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, middle school and high school, frenemies, modeling, crushes, values, and self-image in True Colors, Best Friends…Forever? And Landry in Like, as well as in, Next Door to a Star (Star Series). Her sequel to Next Door to a Star will be out March 22 2016.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-e5924b66-afec-58d4-0817-c4deaa4d9d75" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Krysten is a book addict who has never met a bookstore she didn’t like. She’s worked as a journalist and writes YA, MG, humor essays, and adult fiction. She is originally from Michigan and has lived in Portugal, South Dakota, and currently resides in southwestern Ohio where you can find her reading and writing when she’s not catching up on her favorite shows. She received her master’s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I dialed Peyton, but her mom said she was in the shower. I told her mom about the show tomorrow and said my mom wouldn’t let me stay up any later to call Peyton back. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m so nervous. My stomach is already doing cartwheels. I can’t do one, but my stomach can. Seems unfair. What if I throw up before I go on? I did that right before I went on at the statewide </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ingénue </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">competition in Detroit, and my mom had to give me a cough drop to cover up the smell.” </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Easier said than done. I stared at my ceiling while thinking about all the things that could possibly go wrong tomorrow. Seeing as the show was on in the morning, I never got to watch it, so I had no idea what the set was like — did it have super high chairs and I’d struggle to get into them? And what if it had those higher stools that were kind of tippy and my rear overshot the seat and I fell off? Or what if the prep questions got lost and the interviewer asked me random things like my feelings on nuclear war or asked me about some foreign political leader who I had never heard of before, and I appeared stupid? Why did I say I’d do this? I tried to get comfortable and it felt like I had just dozed off when I felt my mom shaking my shoulder.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This is going to be so much fun!” Devon said as she opened the door. We all walked in and instantly my head felt weird and I tripped. My eyes had to adjust to the light as it was way darker inside, and everything was outlined in neon and lights. It was like a huge warehouse, and it was noisy and crowded. I wanted to turn around and call Mr. Allen to save me from this big, scary mob. But the other girls were all smiling. Even Peyton. Great, I was the only one wetting my pants in fear. Liv saw some guys she knew so we walked over to watch them play pool. Almost immediately a group of boys came over and bought sodas for Kendall, Liv, Valine, India, and Devon. I went to say something to Peyton when I noticed she had a soda in her hand, too. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She shook her head. “No, I wasn’t sure if you were coming or not when I talked to him, so I just told him you might be coming. They usually hang out over at the air hockey table.” </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I tried texting Ashanti again, but no response. Was it too loud in here for her to hear her phone, or was she too busy having fun to care? Liv and Peyton came with us to go look for Steve and Vladi. Liv spotted them over by some couches. Vladi was sitting on the edge of an ottoman and a red-haired girl was leaning over and whispering in his ear. He was nodding and looking around. She put her hand on his arm and leaned forward.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh man, that does not look good,” Liv said. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“He doesn’t seem interested in her,” Kendall said. “He’s looking everyplace but at her. I’ve known him for years, and if he likes a girl then he has razor focus. Trust me.” </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I felt a little queasy when she said that. How many girls had she seen him be interested in? </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peyton put her hand on my arm. “It does seem like she’s more into him.” We watched as Vladi pulled out his phone and started texting. </span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4f9172ec-c06e-1c10-5eb1-bfe0171ab194" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“See? You don’t text when you’re with someone you like,” Kendall said, folding her arms. “That would just be rude.”</span></b></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Sixteen-year-old
Katie Wickliff lives quietly in the small town of Elspeth's Grove,
unaware of the troubled past that forced her grandmother to flee Russia
with her when Katie was only a child. When people in the town begin to
disappear, and Katie's own home is attacked by a terrifying creature,
Katie and her grandmother return to Russia to find answers.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Pursuing
them is the handsome William – who just might be a vampire. Katie
discovers that William is indeed partially a vampire, but he is also one
of the Sidh, an ancient clan whose members are gifted with great power –
a clan to which Katie's deceased mother also belonged.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Soon,
Katie discovers that her mother's seemingly natural death was actually
murder, and she is forced to confront the question she wants to face the
least: Is William her otherworldly protector, or is he the dark
creature who killed her mother eleven years ago?</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;"> </span>Author Bio<br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Catherine Mesick is the author of the three books in the </span><i><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Pure</span></i><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">
series, and she is currently at work on the fourth. She enjoys ice
skating, reading Agatha Christie novels, and spending time with her
family. Catherine lives in Silver Spring, MD.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Interview</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">1) What was the hardest thing about writing your latest book?</span><br />
The
hardest thing was just having the discipline to stick to deadlines and
meet my writing goals each day. There's always something you could do
around the house, or an errand you need to run. You have to tell
yourself that you aren't going anywhere or doing anything until you get
your writing done. I've heard you can tell much a writer is
procrastinating by how clean his/her house is.<br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">2) If you could meet any one of your characters who would it be and why?</span><br />
I
would definitely like to meet Simon. He reminds me a little bit of one
of my friends, and I would like to tell him in a very nice way that he's
a little too stuck in the past. It's wonderful to have cherished
memories from childhood, but there are also good things ahead for him in
the future. I'd like to tell him that he'll miss out if he's always
looking backward.<br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">3) How did you come up with the idea for this book series?</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">I
was inspired by two things—Russian folklore and Fabergé eggs. I
remember looking at a picture of a red-and-gold Fabergé egg and thinking
that it looked like it was actually magic. And that became the basis
for the 'clear fire' that appears in the books. And I'd always loved
Russian folktales—they feature a lot of strong, beautiful heroines who
go on dangerous quests. I wanted to bring that same sense of magic and
adventure to the </span><i><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Pure</span></i><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;"> series.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">4) What's your next writing project?</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">I'm actually working on two things at the moment. I'm working on the next book in the </span><i><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Pure</span></i><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;"> series, which is titled </span><i><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Ghost Girl</span></i><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">,
and I'm also working on a series of four supernatural short stories
based on the seasons. Once the short stories are done, I'm going to post
them for free on my website, </span><a data-mce-href="http://catherinemesick.blogspot.com/" href="http://catherinemesick.blogspot.com/"><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">http://catherinemesick.blogspot.com/</span></a><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">5) What is the best way for readers to talk to you and stuff?</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">The best way to contact me is through Twitter (@CatherineMesick), or through my website, </span><a data-mce-href="http://catherinemesick.blogspot.com/" href="http://catherinemesick.blogspot.com/"><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">http://catherinemesick.blogspot.com/</span></a><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">. I'm on both of those every day, and I love to meet new people </span><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">☺</span><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><br />
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<b>Katie's Russian Tea Cakes</b><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">I've
never been much of a baker, but my protagonist, Katie Wickliff, is
actually a very good one—when she gets the opportunity. Her grandmother
largely disapproves of sweets </span><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">☺</span><span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">.
But when Katie's hanging out with her friend Charisse, they often end
up baking a few sweet treats. This recipe for Russian Tea Cakes is one
of Katie's favorites.</span><br />
<b>Katie's Russian Tea Cakes</b><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">1 cup butter, softened (not melted)</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">½ cup powdered sugar</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">1 teaspoon vanilla extract</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">2 cups all-purpose flour</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">1 cup chopped pecans</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">¼ teaspoon salt</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">Additional powdered sugar for rolling</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">1) Preheat oven to 350 F.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">2)
In a large bowl, cream butter, ½ cup powdered sugar, and vanilla. Add
the flour, pecans, and salt, and stir until just blended.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">3) Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place about 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;">4)
Bake 10-12 minutes (don't allow cookies to get brown). Remove cookies
from sheet and allow them to cool. Then roll cookies in powdered sugar.
Once all cookies are coated, roll in sugar a second time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">LIFE; FEEL IT,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">SEE IT, TASTE IT
AND KNOW IT</span></span></div>
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POETRY BEGIN </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">AND WALK WITH ME
THROUGH THE PAGES OF FRAGMENTS</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">FRAGMENTS SPEAKS
LIFE, THE SWEETER SOFTER, PEACEFUL SIDE THAT HAS SO MUCH PASSION AND LOVE FOR
LIFE. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">AND</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">FRAGMENTS SPEAKS
OF THE ANGER, HATRED, JUDGEMENT, LACK OF LOVE, AND COMPASSION SEEKING LIFE WITHIN
SOCIETY…. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">THIS IS THE
PIECES OF FRAGMENTS OF SOCIAL ATTITUDE AT ITS BEST AND WORST</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I choose America,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">to live in this land</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">That was built on personal choice,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">to live under a Constitution,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Of Liberty & Justice & Freedom</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">for ALL…</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">I have witness society</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">corrupt…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Liberty & Justice & Freedom</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Respect MY privacy,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">as I choose not to walk</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">With what some call</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Some say that mine’s all wrong,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">That I must live by their rules,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">And not my own…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Liberty & Justice & Freedom</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">That society can kiss my ass!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Shaking the feeling of
the day’s end, only to find a weary line of poetry. Lines break off and trails
end no-where to be found. Only me and the screen with no words to play, just
struggle to express one’s words of thought. Jumping up, running from the
screen, too scared to write what it all means. Lines break off and trails end
no-where to be found. Writer’s block is the enemy when one wants to express,
between hand and screen nothing more exists. The world continues to spin, my
hands continue to type senseless words, that no-one will read. The weary line
of poetry is my only friend, I can speak of secrets and taunting games of
words, but the screen protects. While the line breaks off and the trails end
no-where to be found…. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Jeniann Bowers was
born in Whitefish, Montana in 1972. She was raised in Eureka, Montana most of
her younger years. She was the youngest of four children and is the only
surviving girl. Jeniann attended Rexford Elementary School her kindergarten
year and the following year she transferred to Eureka Elementary School where
she graduated from the eighth grade in 1987. She attended Lincoln County High
School until her junior year when she moved from Eureka to Medford, Oregon with
her mother and stepfather. Her mother passed away in January 1991, and Jeniann
soon got married and started a family. She was married for 21 years and had
five children. She lost a daughter to SIDS in March 1994. Jeniann has recently
become divorced and is raising her two boys with her daughter's help. Jeniann's
youngest son suffers from Autism. J. also suffers from her own disabilities of
Fibromyalgia, physical chronic pain, neuropathy, chronic depression and anxiety.</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Jeniann attended college at Capella University throughout most of her
writing career. She made both the President's and Dean's list for outstanding
academic achievements.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Jeniann is published poetess. Her books have been in the top ten
bestselling list on Amazon in the past and her current ratings stand at 4.5.
She has published the following books: <i>Expressions on Life Book One,
Expressions and Letters, Phraseology and Letters, Collection of 25 Days of
Christmas Poetry, Poems, Dreams & More, Poetry Is...???, Poetry: The
Lighter Side of Silliness,</i> <i>The Sound of Nature: Collected Poems &
Other Writings</i> <i>and soon to be released Fragments, and the re-release of
Expressions, and Phraseology of Love, 25 Days of Christmas Poetry.</i></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jeniann is the owner of <i>Poetry is...</i>which is a blogging business
of her own personal poetry, teachings of poetry, journals and other writings.
Jeniann is a firm advocate for poetry publishing and writing poetr</span></span>y.<br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What inspires you to write poetry?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Several things inspire me to write
poetry. Nature plays a large role in most of my poetry. I was raised in the
mountains in Montana and nature was all around me. Different poets inspire me
as well, especially Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Music inspires
me when I am really sincerely in touch with my emotions. To me, inspiration is
all around me, I just stay in tuned with my surroundings and how it makes me
feel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What is a measure of success as a
poet? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The measure of success as a poet is
just writing the poem. I don’t measure my success by my readers or by how many
books I sell. I measure my success on each poem I write, how I put the poem
together and how the poem makes me feel as a poet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Robert Frost is my all-time
favorite, with poems such as, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Birches,” “Mending
Wall,” “Fire and Ice,” Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Robert’s word
play is what inspires me the most and his thought process of his poetry is unbelievably
amazing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Emily Dickinson is my hero, she just
wrote poetry and never worried about society likes or dislikes of her work. Her
poems depict this in each one, she wrote from the heart and soul of her
emotions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maya Angelou, I look at her as a
teacher in the modern world of poetry. I study her poetry a lot and learn a lot
from her poems and how she displays her emotions through her poetry. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What advice do you have for aspiring
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My advice to anyone who writes or wants
to write is keep practicing. The more you write the better you will become and
easier the writing process and word play becomes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Do the Internet and social media
contribute to the well-being of poetry?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have mixed feelings about social
media and poetry. Yes, the Internet and social media opens up the door and has
helped bring poetry to new audiences, however, I am choosy about what platforms
I use to promote my own poetry. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What do most well-written poems have
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The specialty and structure. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What book are you reading right now?
I am always reading more than just one book, there can never be just one. The
Poet’s Corner by John Lithgow and Ponderings by Michele Ward </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Being creative to me means that I
can express myself in a new way in which I have never done before. Being
creative means to create a formation of words into a written piece of work that
sheds the specialty of the written word. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What kind of creative patterns,
routines or rituals do you have?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I use many different creative
patterns. In my Top Ten, I speak about word play and what I call the “Word
Theater;” which is my writer’s notebook that I keep my creative patterns such
as word banks of words that go together or rhyme together. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As for routines, I have to take a
few moments and meditate, go for a walk or journal to get into the motion of creativity.
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My biggest ritual of writing is
having my time and my coffee to write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Which creative medium would you love
to pursue but haven’t yet?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I would love to learn more about
songwriting. I have always had a love and interest for lyrics and for music. </span></span></div>
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made as a writer?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Trust! When I first started out I
trusted everyone! I was wrong there, I found myself swallowed up by a group of
writers that only cared about themselves and their work I thought if I helped them promote their
work, they in return would help me. I have learned more about why I call myself
a poet and why I write from this experience. I recluse myself more and only
depend on a small handful of friends for support. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you had to convince a friend or
colleague to read this book, what might you tell them?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">First, I would tell them that poetry
can save your life and then I would ask them their thoughts about life. After
the answer I would tell them exactly what the beginning of my book says “LIFE; FEEL
IT, SEE IT, TASTE IT AND KNOW IT~ LET THE MUSIC OF POETRY BEGIN AND WALK WITH
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This book is far from being a milestone
in my career as a poet. This book stands out from my usual routine of writing
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fragments has three sections to it,
Fragments of Peace, Fragments of Social Attitude, and Fragments of Love. Fragments
of Peace speaks the softer sweeter side, peaceful side of life and my social
attitude towards it. Fragments of Social Attitude speaks of anger, hatred,
judgment, lack of love and the compassion seeking life within society.
Fragments of Love speaks about the truth I see in love and my feelings about
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a must read for the Holiday season! I enjoy all the different kinds of Christmas point of views. There's poems about family, snow, music, gifts, God, fun, food, toys, Christmas Tress, Winter, and just all around the Holiday times itself. I enjoy the lightness of this book. This book would make great gift to all reads. A great way to kick of the Christmas time of year! So get yourself some hot coco, cookies and get ready for a sweet holiday poetry! </span><br />
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