June 1, 2013

Welcome back to Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday

Welcome back to Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday, where writers come together to share 8 sentences of whatever they wish. This is Week 6 for me.

The story continues from FORTY YEARS IN A DAY. Victoria and her four children arrived at her brother Dominick's tenement apartment: a three room railroad flat in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Victoria is completely exhausted and sleeps through the next day, obviously comforted by the fact that her sister-in-law, Genevieve, was caring for the children. She wakes to find everyone at the kitchen table.
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Vincenzo enthusiastically greeted her, “Good morning, Mama, but it’s really night time.” He chuckled.

“You’ve slept away the day. We’re about to have dinner,” Dominick said.

“We went for a walk with Aunt Genevieve. There’re so many people here…and tall buildings!” Gennaro said.

“There’re wagons where you can get all kinds of food for a coin,” Vincenzo added. “We even saw a train pass over our heads. It was so loud, we covered our ears.”

Baffled by their strange narrative, Victoria was both surprised and relieved that her children seemed to be assimilating themselves to their new surroundings. She had prayed they would be able to forget all the grief and horror they had witnessed, and the process seemed to have miraculously begun. She glanced at Genevieve with thankful eyes only another mother could understand.
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14 comments:

  1. Poor Victoria - she certainly was exhausted. Hopefully, for her and for themselves, the children ARE becoming adjusted to the city. Nicely done.

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  2. Children are so resilient! Enjoyed this excerpt, they deserved some lightheartedness after all the trauma of the trip! Well done!

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  3. Oh, they made it! Thank you! :D

    I know that feeling so well . . . in fact, my husband has the kids right now, so as soon as I make my rounds, I'm going to take nice nap, too!

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  4. I can hear the sound of the city. Very nice :)

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  5. Totally intrigued by why she moved and she's running from. Good snippet, Mona. :)

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  6. Will she be settling down now? or must she continue to run?

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    1. I don't want to reveal too much right now. There's more to come. Thanks for reading, Sue.

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  7. Nice picture of coming to a new land. But I doubt her kids will settle in quite as easily as she seems to think.

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  8. Whew! They made it. Hope they make it in Hells Kitchen. I'm into this story. My favorite era.

    History Sleuth's Milk Carton Murders

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  9. I'm glad they finally arrived at destination!

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  10. Great snippet - I felt the mother's exhaustion, relief to sleep a day with her children in good hands. Great job bringing the reader into the location (what a name, Hell's Kitchen!) with a sense of having escaped something horrific, it sounds like... looking forward to more!

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  11. I appreciate all your comments and reactions! Thank you!

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  12. Sounds like the children had an exciting day there.

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