It might end up as a snippet that could become a longer story. Or maybe a character or setting description. Anything that pops into my head when I mesh the three random words together.
Last time I was here at Loose Ends, Barbara offered up these three words for me to play with.
I went over the word limit but decided to keep it the way the scenario came to me rather than start chopping. Actually, I almost kept going and wrote a sex scene too, but I figured I’d save that for another day.
Definitely more of the sweet than sexy in this m/m romance.
I stopped with the jigsaw puzzle piece held in mid-air and stared back at Joe. I couldn’t have heard him correctly.
He was on the couch across the room from me, leaning forward with his elbows propped on those strong, muscular thighs. He had a crooked smirk on his face, that innocent, yet wicked expression usually reserved for the moment right before he was about to attack my dick with his lips. I could almost see a halo over his head and a red pitchfork in his hand. Maybe I had heard him correctly after all.
He added, "I think that piece is part of his beak."
"What?"
He pointed at the puzzle piece in my hand.
"Oh." I inserted the three-sided section into the last empty space that made up the red-winged blackbird’s beak.
Now that Joe had asked the question, and the words were hanging there between us, I felt like the biggest dork with the folding table before me covered in puzzle pieces sorted by shape and color. For weeks now I’d been putting together the puzzles my grandma had left behind when she’d passed away. I met his gaze again and studied him.
"What?" he asked.
"Why now?"
"I’ve been watching you put together these bird and rabbit puzzles since the funeral, and I realized something tonight."
"What?" That I’m the biggest dork on the planet who can’t figure out how to say good-bye to his grandma?
"I love everything about you, and I want to marry you."
Thanks, Barbara, for the inspiration!
Would anyone like to throw out three words I can use next time?
Sloan Parker has been writing and playing with fictional characters for years, but she finally found her true passion when she began telling stories about two men (or more) falling in love. Now she spends her writing life creating m/m erotic romances and romantic suspense. She loves to explore the lives of people who are growing as individuals while falling in love. Her greatest moments in life are spent with her family, her friends, and her characters. www.sloanparker.com
