Blizzard in the Bay by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2020-01-14T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

By the time Colt dropped Rufus and me off at the cottage, I was exhausted. What a day. A sick cat, a murder investigation, and a major pileup on the highway, and it wasn’t even dinnertime yet. Thankfully, the vet had given Rufus a clean bill of health. He provided supplements to add to his food, which sounded to me to be some sort of natural antidepressant for cats. It seemed that the winter blues weren’t just a people thing.

As it had been the previous evening, dinner was a lively event as the authors shared their work and their newly gained insights after taking the seminars Dax offered between breakout sessions. I could remember the energy generated when ideas were flowing and storylines existed in the realm of pure potential. I also noticed a tiny bit of friction between sisters Connie and Silvia. I knew several writing teams who seemed to make it work, but I’d never felt that I was the sort to want to give up part of my creative decision-making to another person. Yet I supposed that was exactly what Connie and Silvia and Larry and Laverne did every day. Perhaps it had been a mistake to break up the teams. Dax felt that all four of them would get more out of pairing Connie and Larry and Silvia and Laverne rather than keeping the writing teams intact. And maybe he was right in his assumption. But as I watched the sisters trying hard to avoid each other, I realized that bringing a third and even a fourth voice into an established pair might not have been the best choice.

Of course, Larry and Laverne seemed to be doing fine with the setup. In fact, the charismatic pair seemed to be the life of the party. When I first met them, I was immediately transported back in time. They reminded me so much of the image I held in my mind of the sixties when everything was awesome, and everyone loved one another, and the only thing that was truly important was free will and creative expression. Both Larry and Laverne seemed to be the sort to pull you in with a warm smile and a long, hard hug. I’d never seen them when they weren’t smiling, and their overall demeanor was one of joy toward all that life had to offer.

“So in the interest of research, Larry decided to jump fully clothed into the icy cold water,” Laverne informed the others as she shared the story of their Christmas trip to Alaska to research a story about a family who lived off the grid after escaping the stress of the big city. “Of course, he sank like a log, and the folks standing on the pier had to fish him out, getting everyone wet in the process.” She turned and glanced at her husband with a look of pure adoration. “I think we are banned from the entire state after that trip, but what a trip it was.

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