Tuesday, December 14, 2010

'Far From Home' Chapter 1 Paragraph 1...

Well, it's all got to begin somehow...somewhere. They say that the opening paragraph of a book sets the tone for the entire novel. We'll see...
If you haven't read 'A Taste of Home'...this gives nothing away. If you're looking for Chapter 1 of 'A Taste of Home' thats advertised in Trailer 4...keep scrolling








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The falling December snow blanketed the tiny North Texas town of Twin Oaks in a manner which only a few of its residents had experienced before. Occasional streaks of the evening sunlight nestled securely behind the slow moving clouds briefly illuminated the accumulating mounds of precipitation to reveal a feeling of purity that was rare to these parts. It wasn’t an everyday winter occurrence that the children of this community got to don their cold weather clothing and venture into what resembled a Norman Rockwell painting come to life or the adults a day off from their jobs at the local air base without it feeling like they were participating in some massive act of absence. This wasn’t the first situation outside the bounds of normalcy for this small community in recent times, though. To be more precise, nothing had been the same for any of them over the past five years.

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