Six Sentence Sunday

[jana_denardo]

Here's hoping I didn't run these before. It's the opening to Blood Red Roulette, the novel-length (i hope) prequel to Crisis in Faith.

Blood spattered the sidewalk in front of the Alibi bar. Arrigo kept his distance, watching the cops break up the fight that had spilled out of the hardcore drinker bar. The blood glistened almost black and garish under the streetlight’s gleam. He could smell it from his vantage point even though the other gawkers forming around him probably could not.

Scrubbing a hand over his own black shirt, Arrigo wondered if he had gotten any blood on him, blood of a different caliber than that spilled on the cement. As an enforcer for the Chiaroscuro, he had taken down a renegade vampire but the idiot was so young, so full of himself, it hadn’t been much of a fight.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I don't remember this. It's a very cool opening.

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

thanks. that's the first paragraph more or less

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

glad you liked it