S.A. Garcia's Mutterings, Whimpers and Rants

S.A. Garcia's Mutterings, Whimpers and Rants. World Domination by 2020. Or 2025. Probably never.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Raw Words from NaNoWriMo Friday Nov 16


Here's some more unedited words from my NaNoWriMo project which is closing in on 39,000 words!

The deck’s door opened with a crash. Both men looked over in surprise. Patrice snickered under his breath. “No way, they’re letting Billy carry out the food? Wait a minute.” Patrice rose and rescued the about-to-tip-tray from a muscular man who looked like he had run into a wall a few too many times.
Patrice set the tray down and grimaced. “He’s already bitching about not receiving a tip.”
“He needs to look at it this way; if he had dumped the food in my lap, it would be worse.”
“I like your logic.” Patrice arranged the plates. They ate in a companionable silence broken by the occasional comment on the food. Patrice devoured his chowder and attacked his trout in zealous hunger. He fell to eating in great dedication. No wonder he had a cute round belly. Hindy wondered if Patrice like cooking anything beyond breakfast? It seemed like a question he wanted to save until later. His breakfast talent encouraged Hindy. In Hindy’s view, if a man knew how to cook breakfast, surely he knew other culinary tricks, correct?
Hindy appreciated how Patrice didn’t feel the need to fill the air with aimless chatter. That was one of Tim’s worst habits, not letting silences exist as needed pauses in life, well, that and keeping secrets.
Hindy halted in chewing his fish and glared at the silent lake. He felt surprised that steam didn’t puff into the air.
“Stop thinking about Tim.”
Hindy whipped his gaze to Patrice’s frown. “Aren’t you the perceptive one.”
“It’s obvious. You go all weird and still like someone just punched you in the stomach.”
“Odd, Nate said the same thing about me. He mentioned how my face went still.”
“Go me. Maybe I should be a profiler. No way. I can’t stand murder and mayhem.”
“Then how do you manage to draw your comic?”
“That’s not real. It’s fantasy. Fantasy can’t hurt me. I can read a horror story for a thrill but I know Dracula isn’t going to drop from the sky and attack me.”
“Fair enough.” They saluted each other with their glasses and finished eating. The trout seemed a little dry but Hindy decided not to complain. The far-off sound of a jet soaring overhead briefly disrupted the air.
As he reached for his wineglass, a strange whistling noise sounded above them. Their fellow deck dwellers looked up in alarm. They scrambled from their seats toward the building. The sound grew more pronounced. The high-pitched whistle reminded Hindy of an old War World Two world movie starring Greer Garson.
Patrice jumped from his seat. “Hindy, move it. Now.”
Hindy peered up in confusion. “What the hell is…”
Patrice grabbed Hindy’s arm and pointed up. He pulled Hindy back to the deck’s overhang. The dreadful noise increased until Hindy saw the descending shape. He and the others tracked the movement until an object the size of a large loaf of bread barreled down to smash into Hindy’s chair.
He stared in shock. Better the chair than his head! He blurted out his logic question. “What the bloody fuck hit my god-damned chair?” Ouch, a touch too much hysterical tainted his tone. No wonder! His brains could have been sprayed across the deck.
“Damned blue ice. It’s happened before.” Patrice shivered.
Arnie came crashing through the back deck doors. His frantic stare bounced between Hindy and the smashed chair coated with melting blue ice. “Are you all right?”
Cold sweat rolled into every damned crack and crevice on Hindy’s body. Long wet streaks rolled from temple to jaw. He tried to remember when he had felt this bloody frightened. His memory reported maybe back when he was in Japan and a few men cornered him in— common sense slammed any memory into the closet.
Not the time to wander in his dark mental alley. He regarded Arnie in sheer disbelief. “Well I don’t have a bloody piece of blue ice embedded in my skull, which qualifies me as being all right.” Wait, had his voice just soared over octaves? Any pretense at regal presentation swan-dived into the cold lake. Imagine that, lying lovers, skateboard punks and near death cracked Hindy’s legendary composure.
Comprehension forced his voice to rise in further disbelief. “Hold on, you mean that fucking airplane dropped chemical shit at us? What is this, a bloody shit warzone?”
Arnie stared into the sky. “I swear they think it’s okay to release when over the Addies. This ugly event happens way too much around here.”
A man sporting a dense red beard capable of housing a flock of sparrows shook his fist in the air. “Last year one of those fuckers punched a hole in my roof!”
Another man stomped his pink-sock-and-brown-sandaled foot in high petulance. Hindy blinked at his deplorable fashion sense. “One of those blue ice chunks hit my Honda’s windshield.”
“Has anyone reported this problem?”
Arnie frowned at Hindy in fine “duh” expression. “Yes, and they laugh at us. Claim there’s no way of tracking the problem. They warn the airlines to check their lines. Liars.”
Hindy tossed his hair in rage. “Fuck, would they laugh if I had been killed by that falling mess?” He stared at the hovering Patrice. Suddenly rainbow feathers swirled in the air around the thin black braids. The shape created a colorful halo around Patrice’s head. Reality kicked Hindy’s mind. “You dear man, you saved my life.” Hindy lunged forward and kissed Patrice in full-throttled passion. He vaguely heard the cheers surround him. He hugged Patrice close until only a dragonfly’s wing separated their chests.

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