Fiction Friday:
By Leslie Lindsay You know how reading a really gripping book can get your creativity flowing? Well, it worked wonders for me this past week as I dove (quite literally) into Deb Caletti’s book, HE’S GONE (Bantam, 2013). While this book is about remarried woman who wakes on a typical Sunday morning only to find her husband is missing, it has little to do with first love, which my novel is about. Dani (Caletti’s female character) can’t remember them coming home the night before, she’s stumped. Over the course of 10 days, she recounts every last moment together, the words they said, the moments they shared trying to recreate the possibility of what happened. I was particularly taken with Caletti’s well-crafted sentences, the gritty language, and overall gripping tale that our lives–and our marriages aren’t always what they seem. Interested in how HE’S GONE sparked my own creativity? Here’s an excerpt written just last evening that will go into Slippery Slope (working title). “I can’t sleep. The sheets are all baggy and sweaty. Joe lies next to me, …