Is Lisa going to the prom?"
I shelved my worries for the moment. "I don't know, Mom. We don't talk about the You-Know-What. We made a pact."
"You could go together, if you didn't want to mess with dates and things."
"I don't want to mess with the prom at all, Mom."
She ignored me, placidly eating popcorn, piece by piece. "Some girls in my high school class did that and had a wonderful time. They weren't lesbians or anything. Not that it would matter if they were."
"That's nice, Mom. I'm glad you're so open-minded." I grabbed my Coke and the popcorn bowl and headed for the stairs, because I could go my whole life without ever hearing my mother talk about lesbians again.
"Maybe you could take Justin to the prom," she called after me, laughter in her voice. "He is such a hottie."
Shoot me now.
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.
Rosemary Clement-MooreTags: genre good-writing literary-fiction literary-vs-genre-fiction
She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.
Rosemary Clement-MooreScrew you, John."
"Sorry, Sylvie. Can't—they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings.
Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.
Rosemary Clement-MooreMy major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.
Rosemary Clement-MooreTags: humor
He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. “You don’t know me, princess.
Some people have reasons for doing things, and don’t just go wherever they’re told or drift whichever
way they’re pushed.
Tags: inspirational
I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.
Rosemary Clement-MooreFaith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.
Rosemary Clement-MooreTags: faith
That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless.
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