Just broke 39,000 words!

I'd love to write a little more tonight, but my eyes and brain are fried.*

Some newly written lines I like? Yeah, they're not perfect, but I like the flavour of them.

I open the door carefully, but that annoying bell jangles anyway. I hate them. Like a starter’s gun, the damn things are a signal to run.

It’s funny how walking alone in unfamiliar territory can peel the scabs off past experiences that you thought were healed and forgotten.

I peer up at the sky. The trees are so tall, there’s only a pulsing vein of grey cloud directly above where they scraped away the green so they could roll hot asphalt from one dead-ass town in the middle of nowhere to another. 

Each breath I suck in is stale and damp with this moldy aftertaste, like it’s waiting for a good storm to blow it all away.

As she twists the key, the engine gives a pneumonic, gasping whirr and gives up.

For those who have read first-draft tidbits, I'm just about to rework the creepy Megadeath-hoodie-guy scene ;)

...for those who have more patience than me... I think I posted it for a 'Near Kiss' blogfest a while back.

EDIT: Okay, since procrastination is more a lifestyle choice than a hobby, I dug up the link for that creepy-Megadeath-hoodie-guy scene.



*clearly evident by the number of missing scenes all labeled 'JACKSON DIES SCENE HERE'. So far, I think I'm up to five or six skipped scenes... since I'm waiting to write those after I finish writing the present-timeline.