About One More Word

by Dallas Coleman
11 pages / 3150 words
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If Henley has to write one more word on his book, he might go crazy. So when he gets a call from an old flame, he heads out to a bar to meet the man, even though he doesn't believe in love. Will ex-lover Jack have the right words for Henley, or are words just going to get in the way.

Sample

If he had to write one more word.

One.

He was going to have a conniption fit the size of a six-year old on a Pixie Stix binge during the circus.

Fuck.

Henley looked at the screen, at the huge white blank doc, at that endless blinking fucking cursor and did his dead-level best not to just slam his fist through the screen.

Fucking story.

Fucking characters.

Fucking romance.

It was all set up - the girl was pissed off and near furious tears, the guy was all puffed up and snarly and damn near hard as diamonds. They just needed something…

A fight.

An accident.

A tornado.

A nosebleed.

A freak stampede of disease-ridden water buffalo.

He dropped his head in his hands, the filter of his unlit Camel scraping along his forehead with a little scratching noise. Because he'd quit smoking. Six years ago. Damn it. Maybe he needed a walk.

Coffee.

Hashish.

Road trip.

Jack.