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Sleeping Soldier Saturday, chapter 4
Aug. 5th, 2023 07:22 amOne last chapter in The Sleeping Soldier! The book releases in two days, so it's coming right up.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
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A cold wind whipped across the porch as they left the house. Russell closed the front door and locked it carefully, tossing the cheerful comment over his shoulder, “Now that ought to keep out intruders!”
Caleb laughed, his face flushing hot in the cold.
“Though it’s lucky I didn’t lock it before; or I shouldn’t have met you, and that’s the first bit of luck I’ve had in the future,” Russell said, flashing a grin, and Caleb’s flush deepened. Russell locked the gate too, then turned to Caleb. “Here, Freckles, let me take your arm.”
Instinctively Caleb jerked his arm out of reach. “Men don’t walk arm in arm these days.”
“Don’t they?” Russell looked startled. But then the smile was back. “Well, all right then, Virgil. I s’pose I know enough not to run into the street in front of the cars. That’s what you call ‘em, right?”
“Yes.”
They walked slowly down Hill Road, Russell’s head turning from side to side as he took it all in: the street lamps, the shining Christmas lights, the parked cars. Russell stared as a Cadillac backed down a driveway. “I can’t get used to these cars,” he said. “Mr. Huber drove me to his house even, so I’ve been inside one and everything, but still and all every time I see them, they are so much bigger than I expect… As the bride said on her wedding night.”
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Preorder link
***
A cold wind whipped across the porch as they left the house. Russell closed the front door and locked it carefully, tossing the cheerful comment over his shoulder, “Now that ought to keep out intruders!”
Caleb laughed, his face flushing hot in the cold.
“Though it’s lucky I didn’t lock it before; or I shouldn’t have met you, and that’s the first bit of luck I’ve had in the future,” Russell said, flashing a grin, and Caleb’s flush deepened. Russell locked the gate too, then turned to Caleb. “Here, Freckles, let me take your arm.”
Instinctively Caleb jerked his arm out of reach. “Men don’t walk arm in arm these days.”
“Don’t they?” Russell looked startled. But then the smile was back. “Well, all right then, Virgil. I s’pose I know enough not to run into the street in front of the cars. That’s what you call ‘em, right?”
“Yes.”
They walked slowly down Hill Road, Russell’s head turning from side to side as he took it all in: the street lamps, the shining Christmas lights, the parked cars. Russell stared as a Cadillac backed down a driveway. “I can’t get used to these cars,” he said. “Mr. Huber drove me to his house even, so I’ve been inside one and everything, but still and all every time I see them, they are so much bigger than I expect… As the bride said on her wedding night.”
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