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Authors: Kathleen Gerard
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silence. “To think that people in Florida are probably wearing their bathing suits right now, sitting under palm trees lathered in coconut-infused suntan lotion while devouring big, fat turkey drumsticks.” He turned to me. His face was flushed red, as if with fever. Then he gave me a sweet, tender smile that was as bright as a light snapping on in the darkness. “Look at what they’re missing out on… All of this,” he said, holding his free arm open wide.
We were close enough now that his features seemed to lose all distinction, leaving me only to conjure the feelings I had for him in this moment, in our own private world. And there, amid the firelight that cast everything into shades of gold, I realized that the past had passed. Now was all there was. That’s when I let him go—”the guy who broke my heart in college”—and finally, I let myself go.
I eased closer and buried myself in Jack’s open arms.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathleen Gerard is the author of In Transit , a woman-in-jeopardy novel set in the NYPD Transit Police Division. The book was awarded “Best Romantic Fiction” at The New York Book Festival 2011. Gerard writes across genres. Her short fiction has been awarded The Perillo Prize, The Eric Hoffer Prose Award and was nominated for Best New American Voices and Short Story America , all national prizes in literature. In addition, her prose and poetry have been widely published and broadcast on National Public Radio ( NPR ). Kathleen currently writes and reviews books for Shelf Awareness . To learn more, visit www.kathleengerard.blogspot.com.
We were close enough now that his features seemed to lose all distinction, leaving me only to conjure the feelings I had for him in this moment, in our own private world. And there, amid the firelight that cast everything into shades of gold, I realized that the past had passed. Now was all there was. That’s when I let him go—”the guy who broke my heart in college”—and finally, I let myself go.
I eased closer and buried myself in Jack’s open arms.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathleen Gerard is the author of In Transit , a woman-in-jeopardy novel set in the NYPD Transit Police Division. The book was awarded “Best Romantic Fiction” at The New York Book Festival 2011. Gerard writes across genres. Her short fiction has been awarded The Perillo Prize, The Eric Hoffer Prose Award and was nominated for Best New American Voices and Short Story America , all national prizes in literature. In addition, her prose and poetry have been widely published and broadcast on National Public Radio ( NPR ). Kathleen currently writes and reviews books for Shelf Awareness . To learn more, visit www.kathleengerard.blogspot.com.
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