Bookwormed

I've been bookwormed by Marsha Skrypuch  This means I'm supposed to:

1. Open the closest book - not a favorite or most intellectual book - but the book closest at the moment, to page 56

2) Write out the fifth sentence, as well as two to five sentences following

3) tag five innocents (or more)

4) Do the same for your manuscript.

So here goes.

The book is Stacy Nyikos's Dragon Wishes, page 56

      

The faint smell of roasted garlic noodles and hot sin chicken still hung in the air.

"I'll, um, I'll babysit Lori and Isa. We don't need Mrs. Chen. I can do it. Really."

"That is a large responsibility. Ah-lex. So much time. When would you do your homework" Auntie Ling asked.

Alex looked at Isa.

Ah, and now the innocent victims. I shall pass this forward to  

Leslie Carmichael, Anita Daher, Rae Bridgman, Barrie Summy, and Linda Aksomitis.

And here's a wip from years ago that I've dredged out of a drawer (It should no doubt stay there - but there's a publisher looking for sports stories with an end-of-the-year deadline and so I figured I'd polish this a bit and send it out - I'm totally more into the historical fiction mindset at the moment.)

page 56 from "Lost for Words"

"Hey, Keith, it's me, Dino. You remember me." Dino speaks loudly and slowly.

Keith keeps grinning.

Dino doesn't grin back. Instead, he looks over at Keith's mom. Her face looks like a happy face sticker, except for the tears in her eyes.

Smashing a soccer ball against the pink wall of this room would feel so good about now.