jumping
judge’s comments
(award-winning novelist Michael Winter):It’s a strong story... a good blend of detail and action. The writer is deft at conveying plot. The dialogue rings true... events unfold effortlessly. Obviously a talented writer.
extract:
Jill had been skydiving for nearly a year when I met her, every weekend, if the weather was good. She talked about as if it were a drug rather than a sport.
“It’s the most amazing thing,” she said at lunch one day, not long after we met. We were sitting at the picnic table out behind the office, eating soggy sandwiches.
“You don’t feel like you’re falling. It’s hard to explain. You’re up there, and the air’s rushing past your ears and the ground’s coming up at you, but you feel like you’re floating. Like there’s only you, in the whole world. You could go on forever.”
To read the complete story, download the following Acrobat PDF file: jumping.pdf [20 Kb]
[Copyright © Marie Shields. All rights reserved.]
