Sitting in the smoky bar, his fingers betray his nervousness and anxiety as he tears a beer mat to shreds. His large eyes remain fixed on the petite redhead seated on a bar stool a few feet away. He’s only distracted when he hears a cool voice say “A little tense there mate?”
He glances up to meet a pair of amused sea blue eyes, belonging to the lead singer of the band who had performed earlier in the night. She has a lit cigarette poised between her fingers, halfway to her lips. “Just a nervous habit,” he tries to cover his embarrassment as he takes her in fully. She’s one of the hottest women he’s ever seen and he also remembers all too well how good she had been on stage.
“Oh we all have those,” she takes a puff on her cigarette, her eyes never leaving his. She can see the thoughts flashing across his brain, a mixture of lust, embarrassment and self pity.
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I'm a thirty something woman who lives in the north of England. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, creating stories both written and verbal since childhood. While studying at Edge Hill College, I got several poems published by a small publisher in the USA, and in Europe. I have been part of several writing groups, and done quite a few courses in a attempt to hone my writing skills further. I love reading different genres of fiction, knowing that the best way to develop my own writing, and my vocabulary is by exposing myself to the different ways that other people choose to describe things.
The most recent writing course that I've been part of, run by a published author, included a exercise in which we were challenged to read things that we would never usually even look at.
It inspired me to take up a challenge. Namely to attempt to read at least one book by every author which is stocked in my local library. I soon realised that I was being far too ambitious, especially given the fact that every library rotates their stock too often for me to keep track.
I've decided to instead attempt to read a book every day, starting with a author whose surname begins with A, and ending with a author whose surname begins with Z. It doesn't matter what the topic of the book is, or if it's fiction or non fiction, everything is useful for me at the minute.
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