Book Blurb Friday is hosted by Lisa Ricard Claro at Writing in the Buff. Every week, she posts a photo which is a prompt for a 150-word-or-less book cover blurb. This photo was taken by her daughter, Christina Claro.
Light and darkness
When she puts on her tinted glasses, Monica Teller can look into someone's soul . What some might see as an invaluable ability, she sees as a curse. For not only do love, kindness and charity fill her vision, so do hate, depravity and malice. After years of suffering feelings of callousness and wickedness, she’s had enough. Though she is literally blind without her glasses, she is determined to start life anew in darkness. Fearlessly, she crushes her cursed tools. But cursed she is, for she finds that her seeing ability has not deserted her; in fact, it’s strengthened. What more can Monica see that she can’t run away from? Will she survive her dark ordeal to see light in her new life?
(125 words)
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13 comments:
Creepy idea this!
Poor, poor, Monica. This sounds delicously dark and I love it!
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Oh, Monica, what have you done??
Grace, that is a great story! I hope that she gets it all figured out so that things work best for her. I want to find out more. I wonder if blind people see aura's or can sense them ... I've never thought about that before.
This is a very interesting concept for a book. Really. I'd be interested in reading more about her.
A Jersey Girl Writes
This is a really unique concept for a book. I'd definitely be interested in reading it.
A Jersey Girl Writes
Wonderfully creative take on the photo! I agree with all of the above...unique, creepy, deliciously dark...Mmmmm! Sounds like a delicious read.
P.S. Glad you're back---you were missed!
Love the shadiness of it all! Your word plays are first-rate!
Definitely want to read more of this!
Thank you for the comments and encouragement! Fiction is a real stretch for me, succinctness too! It's so hard to come up with anything that makes sense in so few words and I have to admit I draw total blanks with some photos so I don't always manage to write a blurb but I try and read everybody's contributions every week even if I don't do my own!
Grace
I love what you did with this! And she chooses blindness but still "sees?" Very creative!
This is far-out fiction — but very well done. An excellent take on the prompt.
— K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
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The curse of that vision reminds me of Sookie Stackhouse in Dead Until Dark. Her method of dealing with the problem makes for a very different and engaging tale.
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