I have completed my novel 'Snowflake Symphony' a portion of which I posted last year - in July, three posts back.
Here is a piece taken from a little way in, rather than the beginning, about Maggie, one of the few characters who appear. She and Sentinel are the central characters around which the novel forms.
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One
day, when she was almost fourteen, her father had gone.
“Gone
where?”
Not a
question to be asked.
“Gone.”
Maggie
took it at its value – a word with no sentiment, not much
significance; a flat, ugly word.
“So
what?” she retorted.
“Don't
care then.”
“I
won't.”
Maggie
turned and left the kitchen.
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Now,
he is dead; cremated; is nowhere. This she discovered in a few words
spoken when she passed by her mother's house (for that is what it is)
that he had left a cottage; 'more a shack' were the words.
“So
that's where he went.”
“It
must be sold.”
Maggie
determined to visit prior to this event; made preparation, telling no
one.'
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