Hello, Snippetteers! Meet my muse for Rhoann, the Fae main character from UNDERTOW (SoulShares #7), my current work-in-progress. In this snippet (seven sentences again, sorry!), Mac McAllan, the Marine Corps vet who saved Kevin Almstead’s father’s life in Vietnam, is visiting the hole in the ground where Purgatory used to be; most of the site’s been cleared, but he’s just found a duffel bag in the remaining debris that belongs to his partner, Lucien de Winter, the club’s bouncer. Lucien’s been hospitalized since the explosion, in a coma.
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The bag’s zipper still worked, kind of. Enough to let Mac get a hand inside. He reached in and closed his fist around something soft, worked it out through the gap.
The light attached to the pylon was enough to let him see what he’d grabbed. A t-shirt, ragged even before it had been put through the hell of a gas explosion and a collapsing building, the sleeves ripped out to accommodate a pair of biceps hard enough to deliver a knockout blow all by themselves and massive enough to need their own zip code.
Feel safe at night — sleep with a Marine.
Fuck, Mac hated to cry.
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Rory Ni Coileain 
*sniff* That’s so sad.
I liked how the description of something as simple as a ragged T-shirt can make you picture it’s owner. Nice 🙂
Sniffle.
The way you manage to evoke so much emotion from the description of a t-shirt is amazing. I’m looking forward to reading more!
The marine sounds like fun. I hope Mac finds him.
Mac’s the Marine — Lucien is his partner, he’s a short stocky muscle bear who intimidates the hell out of people a good foot taller than he is just with a stern look, but he still liked to wear that shirt because he WAS sleeping with a Marine. 🙂
The descriptions drew me completely into the scene and let me feel his pain.
His pain comes through so strongly and the trigger for it was described so well. Also that is a really hot pic.
Isn’t it? *fans self* And it’s perfect for Rhoann, except for the chest ink. My Fae all have very distinctive body ink, but it looks like Cetic knotwork or tribal designs…
That last line packs quite a punch. ;(
OH no. I think I’m about to cry too. 😦
Having finished Mantled In Mist and read this snippet… *sniffles* I felt for Mac (and poor Lucien, the nightmare he’d gone through)… and I really need to read UNDERTOW like, Now.
Uhm, no pressure, Rory.
*laughing* Working on it!
Nice marine line.