{"id":1262,"date":"2007-08-17T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T05:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/friday-snippets-twilight-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:27:47","slug":"friday-snippets-twilight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/friday-snippets-twilight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Snippets: Twilight"},"content":{"rendered":"

You haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had as much exposure to Twilight <\/em>as you have to Threads & Ties<\/em>, so you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting another Twilight<\/em> installment today. This is a few pages later in the story from the last installment. I skipped the staff meeting and a feedback session between Charlie and Valencia. Does that tell me something I can use in the revision? Maybe. Today, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to meet Pete. Pete is an unwitting villain. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve met Valencia. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s making her move.<\/p>\n

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That temporary hire they had, what was her name?Valerie, Val-something-Hispanic.Oh, yeah, Valencia.God, she was distracting.Her desk was right outside his office.He found himself watching the scenery more often than was prudent.She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d look directly at him and smile this big, disarming smile.He felt embarrassed when she did that, like he was doing something wrong by looking out his door.In a way, he knew he was.Christ, he was a married man, not that Suzan seemed to care, but still.<\/p>\n

He pretended to push some papers around on his desk. He returned to his computer screen. The MX-5 was still displayed. His computer screen faced away from the door. Nobody had to know how much time he spent at the Mazda site selecting and re-selecting his dream car\u00e2\u20ac\u201ca red Mazda MX-5. A flash of something caught the corner of his eye. Valencia\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs desk didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a privacy panel on the front of it, and her legs were spread wide revealing a bright white panty crotch. He quickly averted his eyes to study his computer screen. His heart was racing, and he fought to get control of his breathing. Was she doing that on purpose? She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been watching him when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d peeked out. He looked out of the corner of his eye, she was smiling at her computer screen. Oh, God! He checked the clock? Yes, he could slide out a little early and stop at the Mazda dealer tonight. He logged off the computer and left the office. On his way past her desk, he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Good night, Valencia.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She gave him an Academy Award winning smile, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Good night, Pete. See you tomorrow!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He smiled back and concentrated on walking out the door. As the door closed behind him, he dared to breathe again. He felt like a teenager. Why was she affecting him this way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had as much exposure to Twilight as you have to Threads & Ties, so you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting another Twilight installment today. This is a few pages later in the story from the last installment. I skipped the staff meeting and a feedback session between Charlie and Valencia. Does that …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twilight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16249,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}