STORY INFO
Nothing In Common
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Author
Patricia Jablonski
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Categories
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Danh mục
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Update
1 year ago
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Part Chapter
1/??
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Reads
120
Content
Nothing In Common If Cass’s mother could see her now, she’d die all over again. A few books and some questionable fashion choices stuffed into a canvas backpack with a broken strap, standing on the side of the Interstate, thumb out, her dark face squinting into the Florida sun.Traffic screams past her. The blowback from vehicles whooshing by nearly knocks her over. Her e...
Outstanding reviews
Warm and well written. Enjoyed reading it to the end.I wrote a story about a long-distance trucker you might like: A Long Haul Trucker Gets a New Job Assignment
Hi Patricia,Oh, this was a wonderfully happy story and incredibly well done I highly admire the way that you manage to create a beautiful dialect in Fred’s words, and I also really appreciated that this story managed to pack so much in 3000 words or less. Choosing the career of a trucker was interesting because it naturally gave you an excuse to find friends along the way. You gave such a rich backstory to both of your characters that I was instantly attached to them. Congratulations on the shortlist!!
I so appreciate your kind words, Amanda, and I'm glad you felt attached to Fred an Cass.
Why do you pose like that? This work is touching. Fine work here. Congrats.
I so appreciate your kind words. Sorry, just not sure about your question: Why do I pose like that?
Wonderful story, wonderful writing. Captivating characters. The dialogue is exquisitely realistic and your technique for folding description into the dialogue is instructive if not downright amazing. I feel like a better person for having read this. A better writer as well.
Wow, Ken, thank you for that high praise. I really liked these two characters, so I'm glad someone else did as well.
Wow! Fantastic story! I like how the problem wasn't drugs with the ex-boyfriend (not cliché). This had weight and felt more real to me. A great heartening story. I thought your dialogue was very natural and your character development was superb for a short story. Well-done!Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, David! How kind of you. I had so much fun writing this, and it's nice to know someone had fun reading it.
Great opening line! And good description of the setting. Pat is a story-teller worth reading.
Thank you Gretchen. That means a lot to me, especially from a published poet such as yourself.
Brought me back to my days of hitchhiking, but I never made a friend doing that. The details are spot on and the characters are so likable I wanted another chapter.
Yeah, I don't recommend hitchhiking, Beth. Not all of those adventures turn out so well. This story was actually longer, but I cut a bunch out to make the word limit.
Loved these characters who meet under difficult, unlikely circumstances as strangers and touch each others lives in a positive way.
Thanks, Bobbi, very kind of you.
Love the rich character details!! And, of course, the message.
Thanks, Nic. I appreciate your kind words.
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