--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Jim Linton <linton714@...> wrote:
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> Mickey,
> I really enjoy reading your posts, you are the best.
>
>
Thanks, Jim. It's a chapter in the early life of a small time road gambler named River Johnny. Backstory:
I got the shock of my life Easter Sunday. 4 months ago I slapped my phone number into the hand of a woman I dated 3 years ago. She didn't call. I ran into her 3 months ago and did the same thing. She didn't call. I did the same thing 2 months ago. No phone call.
I ran into her 9 days ago and, of course, slapped my phone number into the palm of her hand. This time she decided to bitch me out. We had some choice words and I left on a road trip a couple of days later thinking that we were now totally alienated.
But Easter Sunday she made a move. I got a text. We've been talking and texting the last few days. This morning she asked me how I've been running. She knows what I do. I told her I took yesterday off and worked on my novel. To which she asked "What's novel working?" I told her I was writing a novel about a small time gambler named River Johnny. "Good luck in your writing, Li'l Johnny" she replied. Then I told her that she was the prototype for one of the characters named Vaydra. I got the name from an old Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra song called "Some Velvet Morning." It's on Youtube. She wanted to know what role Vaydra plays in the book.
"She's the girl River Johnny can't get."
"Sounds familiar" she replied
"Yeah, that's right! But guess what, Toni. River Johnny is a hard headed man. He don't give up.
"I know" she replied.
