Halloween Costume

October 30, 2013.

Welcome to the Hump Day Hook blog hop for Halloween! This is a blog hop where readers can jump from blog to blog to see short excerpts posted by some great writers in a variety of genres.

Because it's Halloween, I expect this week's postings will be of the scary sort. Not mine, though. I don't do scary.

But I did do a little Halloween in my sweet romance, Just Desserts. In this scene Jackie is getting ready to go to a Halloween costume party with her best friend Annette. She hopes to have fun, and try to forget about her unrequited love for Sam.

She's a busy student nurse, so has to throw something together at the last minute. Little does she know that Sam will see her all tricked out in her costume, and that he likes what he sees.

Here's the excerpt:

Jackie, pressed for time, fell back on the same costume she wore the last time she went trick-or-treating when she was twelve—she was a gypsy girl, draped in scarves, bangles and gaudy jewelry.
This time she covered a low-cut black nightgown with a lace tablecloth tied sarong-style around her hips. Then she wrapped colorful silky scarves around her waist and neck, and affixed every piece of costume jewelry she could borrow.
She blackened her eyes with kohl, painted her lids with shiny green and purple shadow, and applied lots of mascara so her lashes were spidery. Next she teased her hair until it was huge, adding layer after layer of hairspray so she looked tousled and wild.
When she was done, she checked out the finished look in the mirror.
 Excellent. I look like I’ve been dragged backwards through a bush by a band of rogues. 
It was exactly the look she was after.

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