Admittedly this is on Facebook, but because I hate FB and it will quickly disappear on there to “Older Posts”, I need to archive it over here.
It it it, I keep saying. Sorry. So yesterday I let my mother take a copy of my second novel, Book ‘Em, to let our hairdresser borrow.
FB Post:
In the abstract I didn’t mind the idea of my mom giving a copy of my second novel to our hairdresser but now that she has left with the book….Guh. Do you know how many sex scenes are in there? Neither do I! Because I lost count!
Erica, Jason, and Jolie commented all up and down, left and right on this. Suggesting fishbowls and dramatic readings. Jolie eventually full-on demanded a reading by Mabel, one of my most memorable characters. I played Mabel in Real World Old and Real World Old: Permanent Vocation. She is old. And quite sassy.
At midnight, this is what Mabel had to say:
” ‘You are a very dirty girl. I’m going to scrub you clean with my…’ What’s that word? No! That is unsanitary! In MY day we washed like the good lord intended us to. With our eyes closed. Alone. Hmph. You think my hands are shaky? Well, it’s just my thing. But you should see the hands of people who SAY that word. Let alone TOUCH it. No. I know how to stay clean. Don’t get dirty! And that’s my two cents squared or cubed or whatever amount of reality is plenty enough for decent women.”
Oh Mabel, how I love you. I came this close to liking my own comment.