Need a beach read? This is a snippet from my story, June’s Lace, from our “Beach Season” anthology. My fellow fearless writers are Holly Chamberlin, Lisa Jackson, and Rosalind Noonan.

June, a wedding dress designer in the middle of a divorce who no longer believes in marriage, is a worrier. From her blue beach cottage on the Oregon coast she writes…

Seven Things I’m Worried About

1. Another sneaker wave.

2. Sharks in a tidal wave that might land on my desk. What would I do?

3. My business failing because no one wants to get married anymore because they realize it is a silly thing to do, akin only to prison.

4. Not being able to resist the Greek god.

5. Never being able to divorce Grayson, the process dragging on and on until I give up because I am too broke and too much of an emotional wreck to deal with it anymore. Then Grayson gets what he wants, and I will be tied to him for life until I am an old and feeble woman collecting plastic bags and chatting with spiders.

6. The article. What if the reporter thought I had a sponge for a brain and said so?

7. Estelle. Is she lonely living alone? I think I’ll make her a lace shirt.

I played online Scrabble.  I play online Scrabble with anonymous other people across the world.  I almost always win. I did not win a single game that night, though I did spell these words:  nymph, lust, and green.

I could not get the gentle eyes of a man on a chariot out of my head to save my life.

I ate a Pop Tart and a teeny, tiny handful of buttered popcorn.

Okay, two Pop Tarts.

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