#hollybrook

some cats dream of hunting. hollypaw dreams of drowning, watched by a strange family.

a bit more than a snippet, but here's some of the original fiction i've been tapping away at:

A few doors down from Davis’ bakery, the Whetherwear Girls are hard at work hawking their trends with the forceful, perky persistence drilled into them by Mrs. Hogan, a former beauty queen who runs her boutique with an iron first. The Whetherwear Girls are an elite force in Hollybrook; only the most popular girls are hired, and they are only allowed to wear Whetherwear merchandise. Everywhere. All the time. To school. To events. On dates. There was a rumor once that a girl had been fired when Mrs. Hogan showed up at her house unannounced at midnight and found her in pajamas her mom had bought at Bloomingdales.

The Girls are currently arranging a rainbow of colored tights and a display of chunky bangles, chirping brightly at anyone brave or stupid enough to wander nearby. When one of them, Candy Finedom, spots Jack, she and the other two Girls giggle and wiggle their fingers at Jack, doing that wave he thinks they all learned in sex ed when the boys and girls got split up for different talks, because he’s never seen a dude do it like that but it seems to come naturally to every girl he knows. He smiles and waves back, and wonders if the Girls are cold; Candy’s in a denim mini-skirt and teal tights exactly like the ones on the table, and one of the other Girls, Natalie Clarke, has an artfully cut-up Debbie Gibson tee and Levi’s, and she seems to be shaking like a chihuahua with a visitor at the door.

rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (for any work of fiction) and tag as many people as there are words

thanks to @postmodernau for tagging me! i haven't looked at a fic document in about, oh, three months, but here's something from the terrifyingly taking shape Original Fiction i'm working on!!!:

Ben is not asked to handle sales. Ben, if alone in the store with a pack of tourists, would ask these people what they like to read, and unless what they liked lined up with the very specific niches he also likes, he would say something like, “I don’t know. Try the westerns,” and the customer would seem confused when he didn’t take their hand and skip to the section with them like they were Dorothy and her band of bozos. 

Help Urgently Needed I

In a wonderful location looking east across Lough Arrow, Hollybrook, County Sligo dates from the mid-18th century when believed to have been built to replace an earlier castle on the site: the estate then belonged to the ffolliott family around 1659, subsequently passing in and out of their possession on at least one occasion. In the last century it was run for several decades as an hotel (see a…

Miniature Fairy Garden Mini Hollybrook Cottage

Miniature Fairy Garden Mini Hollybrook Cottage

size: 3.75″ Wide x 5.75″ High x 5.5″ Deep

material: Resin

Create a sleepy and peaceful dell in the fairy garden by grouping quaint little cottages, like the Mini Hollybrook Cottage, together where fairies and elves can live happily ever after. Gather pixie sized boulders and place them on top of mossy colored, ground cover with an assortment of…