Blue Lines Blog – V-Day Fiction (part 1)

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Blue Lines, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Little Dragon, New York, Part 1, Quotes, Starbucks

I began this as a piece of practice fiction last Friday, based on quotes I had received scheduled for 2/14/11 release. However, I did not finish, and though inspired last night, did not last that long after a long weekend. Rather than give a half hearted “completed story,” this will serve as part 1.

                                    “…today means nothing unless you do it the other 364 days…”

 

Those words echoed in my head and prevented my return to sleep as I slowly woke up and stared at your old cool undisturbed pillow and sheets that lay on the other side of the bed and briefly imagined how you used to look as you slept.  You hair always seemed to seemed to lay perfectly as if you were part of a photo shoot, or maybe that was just what you were to me.  I remembered how you left without a trace…granted I knew that you were leaving, but there was nothing for me to remember you by.  I realized that all of the women I had loved, though I did not marginalize you as such, had no scent.  No cue that jogged memories of you out of the blue.  But those, those who did not belong in my life, those who I knew were fun, friends, mistakes, incompatible, they had the strongest scents.  But when I smelled the sweet aroma of her, I could always look at you and know I was in the presence of something greater.

            I slowly allowed myself to get up and mull about my bedroom, as the yellow sun burned away the Brooklyn night and permeated through the buildings, it found its way through the slats in the blinds.  The morning was nothing like the cool blue mornings in California as the windows faced the Pacific.

Music Mondays – Valentine’s Day Edition (Afternoon)

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Amel Larrieux, Andre 3000, Another Rainy Day, Corinne Bailey Rae, Duke Ellington, In A Sentimental Mood, India.Arie, John Coltrane, Make Me Whole, My Love, Norah Jones, OutKast feat. Norah Jones, Ready For Love, Sia, Take Off Your Cool

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music Mondays – Valentine’s Day Edition (Morning)

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Beautiful, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Cassandra Wilson, Esthero, Frou Frou, Key Yemaya Walker, Let Go, Maxwell, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Sky And Sea (Blue in Green), This Woman's Work, Valentine's Day

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Blue Lines Blog: This Day In American History – Born Frederick Douglass

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Blue Lines, Key Yemaya Walker, This Day In American History

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who later became known as Frederick Douglass, (approx February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, between Hillsboro and Cordova, probably in his grandmother’s shack east of Tappers Corner and west of Tuckahoe Creek

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

What I Learned Sundays – 2/13/11

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Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, California, Discovery Park, fiction, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Moscone Center, Prologue, reviews, Sacramento, San Francisco, Starbucks, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, What I Learned, writing

What I learned Sundays.

 

Rest is cool, but I don’t get any.

I really do love writing, and im inspired by something again.

I was asked a question that honestly took my by surprise…I still have no answer for the question.

I like to be there when I’m needed.

When things seem bad, sometimes they are not.

 

I had a conversation with a friend, well this is just one of many conversations that I had with several friends last week.  My Blue Lines Blogs have touched upon my protagonist Keypsiia Walker’s character development, first directing new readers to some of my earlier posts when I began my blog, but also touching upon some revelations I made while reading a piece of fiction now.  It allowed me to be confident in writing my female my character, however it brought to light that I have not really allowed the future readers insight into how she looks.