A Small-Town Affair
So, how do you handle the scoundrel, who has “a coldly false smile pasted on his face” as he swings his camera around to fix it on you?
Stupidly, you first let an earnest but media-dumb crew member speak, and he unwittingly seems to incriminate you. And then when Gregorio turns the camera back on you, you respond curtly to each insinuating question with “No comment.”
Maybe not so stupid. And you remain vigilant: Through the window, he watched Gregorio lift his camera to get a shot of the scaffolding, and a fresh wave of anger bubbled through him. … No, he wouldn’t leave his site. Not yet. Not with the newsman prowling around, poking through the remains of this day’s disaster and looking for an angle on the wreckage of the past.
Sigh.
How do you deal with bums in Carnelian Cove?
You don’t have to! The only bum-like creature to “deal” with is Crazy Ed, the town’s lovable eccentric, who isn’t homeless but who spends his days and sometimes his nights down at the docks, eating glazed donuts that other residents buy for him, sometimes doling out sugary pieces for begging gulls and other times attaching them to fishing line to angle for whatever sustenance lurks in the sparkling bay.
For heroes and heroines, Crazy Ed is an asset. It is Crazy Ed who happens to notice a dark blue truck driving away from the project the same night the fuel line is cut on a construction vehicle. And, in Book One, it is Crazy Ed who helps soften our heroine Charlie’s hard heart where our lovelorn hero Jack is concerned. The two lovers are having their final breakup fight, when Crazy Ed interrupts. Jack hands Crazy Ed a bag of glazed donuts he’s bought for him.
“Glazed. My favorite.” [says Crazy Ed]
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THREE Comments
Comment / By Susan Fox / Nov. 12, 2009, 7:11 p.m.
This rated a cover article? You’ve got to be kidding.
Comment / By Thirdeye / Nov. 14, 2009, 5:34 p.m.
Fluffy topic. Fluffy article. Fluffy reporter.
Comment / By Jeff Musgrave / Nov. 16, 2009, 12:58 p.m.
Not so fluffy…
You can smell the stench of Terry’s greenscare propaganda, it burns the eyes stronger than pepperspray. It’s not surprising that she promotes big development and attacks activists in her novel(her husband works for Eureka Ready Mix).
Kind of reminds me of Caltrans Richardson Grove Improvement Project(RIP) manager Kim Floyd’s husband Bryan Plumley. I’m sure Kim’s pursuit of the RIP has nothing to do with big development(and Plumley’s ties to Goldman Sachs).
I always thought that romance novels were trashy. Thanks for reaffirming my convictions.
Great article Heidi!