11.20.2012

Excerpt for my current novelette

A title alludes me but the novelette (a little over 7,500 words) is complete. I'm re-reading for errors and such. Below is more of a snippet than an excerpt:

 "You could always kill yourself," her mother offered when Linda went to visit her a few days before New Year’s Eve. Behind bars for a second time in her life, Rose possessed an elegance and strength that was unshakable. Somehow she managed to make prison garb appear fashionable. Life had yet to add wrinkles to her face; her voice was as light and feminine as a girl, when she wanted it. Her long dark curly red hair showed no signs of graying and today it hung down about her shoulders and back like a lovely silk shawl. She batted her naturally long lashes, lightly painted with a coat or two of mascara. "You've always been a bit worthless, clingy and needy. No man wants that."