Harlequin StoryTagline: Seven years after Carla and Luke parted ways, they bump into each other in the most unlikely of places...and the old flames feel a new spark!
Observations: I decided to go ahead and analyze this one, even though it's a Harlequin story. Ms. Bolder did such a great job, I couldn't tell until the end that it wasn't a freelancer's story.
All throughout reading this story, I kept thinking about that movie The Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, about two old codgers who have to share a hospital room. This was a set-up I haven't seen before in years and years of looking at Woman's World stories.
Just help me out here...when they say cheese sandwich, is that a grilled cheese sandwich? Because if so, yum. If they mean a cold cheese sandwich, yuck. LOL
Photo by: Kitchen Life of a Navy Wife (Flickr creative commons license)
I wondered the same thing, Kate. A cheese sandwich comes out of the refrigerator...cold bread, cold cheese, probably a little damp. We know what we mean by a grilled cheese. Buttered bread fried to a toasty brown, melty cheese, and hot.
ReplyDeleteThis was the first WW Romance with a two-page spread. That alone gave it a handsome look. I thought maybe that was a Harlequin bonus, but low and behold, the next week my Romance DREAM MAN (title changed to A Dream Come True)got the same treatment. Woo hoo!!
LOL, Kate. I just assumed it was a grilled cheese. I mean, after all, does anyone really eat a plain cheese sandwich?
ReplyDeleteI thought this story was written well with all the similes and metaphors.
It relates well with anyone who has visited elders in the hospital. Those old guys were a hoot.
Yes, this was definitely a cute story! I loved the humor. And I LOVE grilled cheese or any cheese...
ReplyDeleteA propos of nothing, I remember when I was a kid my friend's mom sometimes invited me to lunch for "toasted cheese sandwiches". I figured that was just her own phraseology of what my Mom called "grilled cheese". Unfortunately, what friend's mom served was a slice of American cheese slapped between two pieces of toast. Maybe one step above a cold cheese sandwich, but a disappointment nevertheless.
ReplyDeleteAnd congrats Mary Jo on both the publication and the two-page treatment!! :D