Borrowed from @sara_brookes, I’m going to start posting very tiny snippets from my works in progress. (BTW, make sure you pick up Sara’s Flash of Dark. I loved this book!)

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Still not looking at him, she hesitated but nodded.
“Jazzy, don’t run from me.”
“I won’t,” she answered softly.
Not at all satisfied, but having little choice in the matter, he accepted her reassurance. The minute their feet hit the pavement, however, she did exactly as he’d suspected she would.
Like a bat out of hell, Jazzy ran.

–From Hunger Aroused