it's been a while
...since I posted a snippet.
A set-up scene from "Continuing Education," a short story I'm working on between other things.
I rested my forehead against the window. Felt the soft heat of the autumn sun through the glass, and looked out over the Old Campus of Monckton College. The site dated from the 1880’s, a scatter of red brick piles topped by copper roofs gone antacid green with age. Trees closed in from all around, making the buildings look as though they had been constructed in clearings in a forest. The sugar maples had already turned vermilion, the oaks that dull green that would change eventually to gold. But it was still warm enough for shirtsleeves during the day, and the sky called to me in clear, cloudless blue.
“What the hell am I doing here?” I stared out at the brightness until my eyes watered, then returned to my chapter on viral marketing.
A set-up scene from "Continuing Education," a short story I'm working on between other things.
I rested my forehead against the window. Felt the soft heat of the autumn sun through the glass, and looked out over the Old Campus of Monckton College. The site dated from the 1880’s, a scatter of red brick piles topped by copper roofs gone antacid green with age. Trees closed in from all around, making the buildings look as though they had been constructed in clearings in a forest. The sugar maples had already turned vermilion, the oaks that dull green that would change eventually to gold. But it was still warm enough for shirtsleeves during the day, and the sky called to me in clear, cloudless blue.
“What the hell am I doing here?” I stared out at the brightness until my eyes watered, then returned to my chapter on viral marketing.