Today’s snippet is freshly pressed. I’m still working on plotting and soft outlining my next story. I have the MCs’ names and the main reason they met, but other than that, I still have no idea where this is going. This snippet is the first six lines I had written for it, and should be somewhere in the first five percent of the story. Since I work from beginning to end, I’d need to write the previous scenes before placing these lines in the right place.
“Go inside and get warm. I’d take care of it before the snow hits again,” Scott said, tossing Patrick the shop keys.
He grabbed them before the bundle hit the ground and looked at Scott in disbelieve. The man didn’t know him from Adam and was giving him the keys to his shop? For all Scott knew, he could be an ax murderer waiting for the right time to hit. People these days don’t know a thing about self-preservation.
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Lila Leigh Hunter 
For that matter, Scott could be an ax murderer luring his next victim…
Haha, that’s exactly what i thought!
Sounds promising, as long as neither turns out to be an ax murderer. 😉
Nice, casual moment of tension, coupled with Patrick’s wariness over why Scott is so quick to trust him (a reaction I can emphasize with completely :))
Let’s hope neither are axe murderers but then maybe that would be a different story.
Interesting…
That’s a great bit of characterization.
Is it bad that I kind of hope this is a prequel scene of an actual axe murder attempt, setting the stage for the future behavior for whichever turns out to be the good guy/MC?
That sounds like a fun place to start from–the contrast between trust and paranoid cynicism promises some interesting conflict.
This was fun…and I’m hoping neither one is an axe murderer!