My mom makes decorative walking sticks. She decided I needed one to match my shoes, because she's the best!
My mom makes decorative walking sticks. She decided I needed one to match my shoes, because she's the best!
I’d ask what he wanted it to be, but he doesn’t know. Anything but what it is. Why is my life so full of men with ideas that are perfect so long as they are never actually executed?
The Men In Between, Chapter 9: The Writing On The Wall Www.elliepylefiction.com
Life is like a television series...Things begin in the fall, they build, cresting and building again until finally in June it all comes to a moment when everything all happens at once. Everything ends. But that’s the thing about television, nothing ever really ends. Even if you die, depending on the show, there’s always the possibility to come back as a guest star.
Chapter 8: Season Finale, The Men In Between
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'You’re the control group!' she snaps. 'Besides, if you are pregnant just think what a good story THAT would be. I’d pick you to carry the Second Coming. You’d teach him to be a good witch and love the gays and wouldn‘t let him get himself killed this time.'
I blink and step into the stall.
Chapter 7: Threesomes, The Men in Between
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[This flirting is] like watching two people of exceptional skill play a game they know they’re both going to win but neither wants to spoil the illusion that they aren’t on the same side.
Chapter 6: Our Moment, The Men in Between
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There‘s no way to tell one of your dearest friends that you‘re just not attracted to him. Not that attraction had anything to do with what I did. Chemistry and physical attraction are different things, which is something most people don’t think about...With someone who isn’t your friend, that doesn’t matter. When the show is over, they can be too.
Chapter 5: Blacklisted, The Men in Between
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'...I don't have time to clean these dishes and I don‘t have anywhere else to put them so I stacked a bunch in the oven and now I‘m putting them in the dryer.' 'Are you ok?' Pete asks. 'Yes.' I say, looking around at my apartment which is apparently clean for the first time since the day Rick left and trying not to see anything as a metaphor.
Chapter 4: Dishes in the Dryer, The Men in Between
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I have to keep moving. Because when nothing means anything, anything could be the thing that’s supposed to mean something, so I have to say yes to everything.
Yes, and—
Chapter 3: The Year of the Good Story from The Men in Between
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Telling stories to strangers and walking (backwards) through the darkened Savannah streets, I feel safe under the amber glowing mossy trees. This city takes care of her own. The stories of the dead help me feel alive. I guard moments of life so jealously right now.
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“And I know that’s what I should be focusing on, the chance for a new beginning. And I’m sure I’ll be fine as soon as the next Story starts. But it hasn't started yet. It's not that I need a relationship to define me, I've never felt that I did, it's just that my whole life has been a straight line that flowed one story into the next: I got accepted at the right high school, one college, one grad school, all of which maintained a continuity of cast and plotline, but for the first time ever, I don’t know where to go from here or what happens next.” - Chapter 1: How The Story Ends
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The Men In Between
Viviane Sinclair is a 24 year old Mormon grad student in Savannah, Georgia and she just broke up with the man she has loved for a quarter of her life. It will be two years before she falls in love again, but there will be men in between. This is a story of the time between when you finish your education and start your career, of the difference between losing your religion and losing your faith, of the men who are not the love of your life, and of how you get to what happens next. Kindle edition available on Amazon.com. Nook/iBook available at Lulu.com.