Trifecta: Labor Day, part three

I don't know if anyone is still reading this, but since I posted the other parts...



Title: Trifecta
Chapter: Labor Day, part three
Status: WIP
Genre: Romance, Triple Slash, businessmen, jobs, friends, working
Length: 1.1 k
Summary: Ty enjoys Damien and reminds his married friends that they can enjoy each other

Masterlist

Ty parked in front of his house. The party must be over. Cars had filled the street when he left to drop Aunt Millie off with Tara. Aunt Millie had a backstage pass for the evening. Hopefully she wouldn’t get in anyone’s way.

No one was in the house. He opened the fridge and grabbed the beer he’s been putting off until he was done driving. Aunt Millie had wanted a car, but Tara insisted it would just get in the way. Probably true if they planned to spend all night downtown.

“Look who’s home.” Flannigan held up his beer. “Now the fun can begin.”

( I have plans for this )

Miscellany

I had a weird experience around Christmas (besides the hours-long panic attack I've started taking medicine for). When I work Floral, I'm always moving around (according to the fitbit I got for Christmas about 6 miles a day). A few years ago they put a bank in my grocery store. The head person on the bank stands in front, greeting all the customers who pass. The second head person was a man, who stood in the doorway, facing both the bank cashiers and my department. When no customers were walking by, he'd watch me.

People like watching balloons blown up and flowers arranged, so I ignored it. He'd say hi every time I passed and we might exchange a sentence or two. No problem, but as last year ended I became uncomfortable at how happy he looked to see me. I started avoiding walking past him. Then I found out he was moving to a different branch, so I went over and wished him well. I said WE'd miss him and his laugh. He replied that he'd miss me too. He watched me all the time.

So uncomfortable.

But he's gone now so it's all good.


I'm trying to finished the last bits of The Locked Room and send it off. My therapist (who I've gotten since the new year) tells me I'm a protectionist and had me come up with a deadline to send the story off. I said two days of editing, so with one editing day each week, the last day of the month. Then I sat down to do my editing and realized I hadn't done a synopsis or the back cover blurb. The synopsis wasn't too hard, but I'm still working on the blurb. (I was sure I'd worked on this before, but I can't find anything). Right now I have:

Klin’s job in an on location film crew means he’s hardly ever home, still he meets Weston, a handsome businessman with the most perfect dark beard, and Klin moves in with him to maximize their time together.

But when Klin’s brothers visit, they spot the gaps in Klin’s knowledge of West and are determined to solve that mystery by opening the one locked room in West’s large house.

It isn't exactly what I wanted. There's no need to mention West's dark beard unless I note that Klin's brothers think he's Bluebeard (but how to say that without mentioning that the brothers open the door). I want to say the brothers are obsessed with the locked door. And I can't remember if it should be in past tense like the story (synopsis are always in present tense)

The first and last of paragraphs are the most important parts, so I should probably pull Weston from the middle of the first one and put him near the beginning. And the locked room should be at the end of the second.

Today hasn't been very productive. I was light headed and my heart was beating fast (like a panic attack) this morning, so I went back to bed and didn't wake up until one. Now I've got the out-of-body feeling I get after naps along with the light-headedness and crazy heartbeat. (making lunch was an interesting experience) I can't even really relax because I can't read anything longer than a few paragraphs.