"SECOND SATURDAY"
Musa Publishing, July 2012.
BLURB: Sharon Rogers is a young university student in Las Vegas, working
part-time at a nearby donut shop. She is hard at work one morning when Patricia
Renner enters the shop--and Sharon's
life. Not long after meeting Patricia, she begins dreaming. Sharon turns her dreams of male and female
warriors with wolves' heads into sculptures. When Sharon and her fellow art students band
together to host an "art crawl" for the public, she invites Patricia
to attend, hoping to seduce her. However, Sharon
discovers that Patricia is intent on seducing her; not only that, Patricia is
very territorial and will not permit rivals for Sharon's hand. Patricia has a secret, though,
and Sharon must
accept it if they are to be together forever.
EXCERPT: Sharon Rogers opened her eyes and stared at the
darkness of her bedroom ceiling with the echo of the tremulous howls still
ringing faintly in her ears. Many times before, she had dreamed of powerful
warriors; men and women, who ran with giant wolves across moonlit steppes. With
the fading of the dream she felt an unexplained pang of loss.
As a matter
of routine, Sharon
woke very early; when she wasn’t a starving university student, she worked
part-time at the Mom and Pop Donut Emporium not far from the university. Baking
and icing trays of donuts and serving coffee was her momentary purpose in life.
Though she
had the day off, she grumbled about having such an early rising job—in spite of
the Ground Zero recession with so many Las Vegans out of work—and went back to
sleep. When she finally awakened, she lay naked in her large bed and stared at
the whirling ceiling fan.
It was
Saturday, the first “Second Saturday” for the Maryland Parkway Salon, as the
local group of university students called themselves. The students who lived in
the weathered apartment buildings had spent two months planning this art crawl.
For a few hours, the public could visit apartments where art work was for sale,
help themselves to refreshments in the sandy lot between the buildings, and
visit with the artists in their workshops at the back of the lot.
If Second
Saturday was successful, they planned to hold more art crawls every couple of
months.
But for
Sharon, Second Saturday had the potential to be much more than an art show.
First,
there were the more than a dozen foot-high clay figures that she had sculpted and
fired. The figures were of naked men and women with wolves’ heads—warriors
armed with shields, spears, and swords. As an artist, Sharon appreciated the
human male and female form, and she loved wolves. The two subjects complemented
one another, reinforced by dreams she’d had. She was hoping to sell one or more
of the figures.
Second, was
the boorish Rodney Boatman, a sometime-patron at the donut shop. He was a
delivery driver for a local company. He hit on her frequently, never taking no
for an answer. When he saw the flyer announcing Second Saturday, he had
promised to show up and take her out for dinner and drinks afterward. She
dreaded his possible appearance.
Third, was
Patricia Renner…
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