Welcome to Snippet Sunday! I’ve decided to switch it up this week with a WIP called Two Worlds Collided.
This is a time travel tale where an obsessed fan has a chance to save her beloved rock star from ending his life. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll are a cocktail that is neither glamorous nor pretty for rock star, Bellamy Lovel, but in the dark of night when the shadows threaten to consume him, he finds the one shining light that may guide him home. 58k into the story so far and about finished. Then I’ll be reading through it again. I can’t believe how fast this story came about.
Remember this is raw, unedited material. 🙂
LOOKING FOR last week’s SNIPPET: https://www.kmnbooks.com/two-worlds-collided-chapter-1-2/
Now for Chapter One, #3 snippet
Los Angeles, 2007
Disappear
This is in Evie’s POV. Kelsey explains the rules of time traveling and what her mother experienced on her trip.
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When she’d first met Kelsey, she told her the story about her mother being in prison, but she’d conveniently left out the part about time traveling. “Your mother traveled back in time to kill her boyfriend?” she repeated just to make sure she’d heard this correctly.
Kelsey paused to peer at her and said, “Am I speaking a different language or something? Listen, she traveled back too far in time. She should have waited for when Barney – the boyfriend – was far into his cups, but she plopped back when he had just arrived home from work. Makes it difficult to claim your life and your children’s were in danger when the man bore no weapon and his blood alcohol level was zilch.”
“So why didn’t she just travel back to the correct time and fix her mistake?” Lisa offered.
Kelsey rolled her eyes, as if she were explaining the details of time travel to a bunch of imbeciles. “You can’t travel back in time to the same year twice. It’s a one time shot.”
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The rules to time traveling- wonder how many there are. 🙂
Possible blurb for Two Worlds Collided:
Evie Reid, on a whim agrees to travel back in time to change bad boy Bellamy Lovel’s path of destruction. She’s smart with a college degree, but she’s still fan girl crazy for the rock band, Civilized Heathens. Evie knows despite all Bellamy’s smiles and enthusiasm on the stage, he’s destined to end it all on one lonely night in a hotel room, unless she can change his path.
Bellamy isn’t keen on having Evie as his personal assistant, hired by his band mates to watch over him, and keep him on schedule. However, there is something about the woman that sparks his interest, despite his best to ignore her. When darkness threatens to consume him, he realizes she may be the only light that will chase the shadows away.
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“Am I speaking a different language or something?” If you had any idea how often I’ve used that line or something similar… LOL
P.T.,
So glad you could relate. lol
I love the premise for this story, Karen. Holy cow–you’re writing it fast! Fantastic when it pours out like that 🙂
Teresa,
I know. The story is just begging to be told. 🙂
Well geez, doesn’t everyone know the rules of time-travel? I mean, c’mon! 🙂 Love the tone of this snippet.
Christina,
Thanks so much. Glad you’re liking it.
As long as you can keep all the amazing rules of time travel straight for us, things will be good! Enjoying the story very much, great snippet.
Intriguing snippet – explaining one of the rules. How much does she know?
Aurora,
She knows just enough to be dangerous. lol
Yeah, everybody knows you can’t travel back to the same year twice—duh! 🙂 Great premise for this book.
Joyce,
lol- yep, those are the rules.
Sounds like you are having fun working out your mythology. Great snippet. 🙂
That is the thing about time travel to stop someone from doing something–you have to make sure they still seem like they would have done the bad thing. It’s a fine line to walk!
LOL. I love Kelsey’s retort, “Am I speaking a different language or something?” I love the sass in it, and her overall attitude. She seems like my kind of fun character to watch. Interesting time travel rule of only being able to go back to the same year once. I like that, it makes everything all the more critical and pressing. It makes for some nice tension.
Does she honestly expect everyone to understand the rules of something that we all agree is impossible?
She’s in a hurry. She has to go to work in a few hours. lol
Interesting. Time travel is definitely the one genre I’m too chicken to try (my brain would explode with all the variables), but you have a good idea of what you want to do with it. Kudos and happy writing!
The rules of time travel are so complex and apparently so little understood.
Interesting rules ….
Iris,
Thank you.
Really interesting! I can’t wait to see where this goes.
Emmy,
Thanks so much.