The GNARA Girl

<p><em>Volume Two. THE GNARA GIRL. San Mateo Texas. Spring 2020. A middle-aged couple a man and a woman wearing dark glasses wait in her Mercedes in the moms-to-be ONLY reserved front row section of a hospital parking lot. Meanwhile Preston Gerardi Lynsey's 69-year-old never-married son tests wits with a blonde reporterette probably a blogger. At home the county she revisits events from Viet Nam in the 1970s when he was just 19 years old while his wife who has been self-quarantining because of fragile health whispers Look at me really look at me. I have lost thirty pounds just since Christmas in three months. She does not say Can you help me? After daylight the next morning carpenters painters a locksmith and a team of cleaning ladies prepare to x and repair Lynsey's broken and damaged house-when music breaks out. Across town two grief-stricken families plan COVID funerals for their sons. Weeks later no more than ten or eleven people gather on a Saturday afternoon for an outdoor party. The celebrants are wearing masks keeping their distance not hugging yet they stay connected each holding one end of a bright ribbon the</em></p><p><em>other end leading to the st of the honoree; some even dare to try a few two-step dance moves to the sounds of an old-time Cajun tune. And then it is the golden hour the blue hour; it is that lamplight time when sin dies and goodwill and proper intent often seem to thrive.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Betty Pack author of THE GNARA GIRL lives with her family in San Antonio.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>-The </em><em style=color: rgba(24 127 73 1)>GNARA </em><em>Girl BETTY PACK</em></p><p><br></p><p>Don't forget to get a copy of The Gnara Girl: Book 2</p>