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This is an excerpt from my new two books series The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright<\/a><\/strong>. This excerpt is from the first book.<\/p>\n

Skye and her friends hang out at a popular watering hole in West Berkeley, talking about their current lives, their love lives, and their artistic pursuits.<\/p>\n

This work is the continuation of the Skye Wright saga, and follows her adventures from her previous novel Stella Maris<\/a> which is a sequel to What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko?<\/a>, both available on Amazon.com. <\/p>\n

You can buy this series here!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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     They found Colleen sitting in a corner of the Mississippi Lounge’s beer garden, her hatless head revealing her very stylized short red hair. Skye could tell the glasses on her wry pixie face were new frames, and if she did not mention her new glasses, no doubt Colleen would.
\n     Harp ran off to try out the new food stand in the back as Skye sat down.
\n     \u201cNice to see you again Skye,\u201d said Colleen as she held up her multicolored cocktail.
\n     \u201cIt’s been a while.\u201d
\n     \u201cYou don’t come here too often anymore.\u201d
\n     \u201cThat’s what happens when you sober up.\u201d
\n     Harp came around to the table, putting down a pint of beer before running back and retrieving a Mexican Coke for Skye and a basket of food.
\n     \u201cThese are vegan onion rings,\u201d announced Harp.
\n     Colleen looked at the basket. \u201cVegan? How the fuck can onion rings not be vegan?\u201d
\n     \u201cI haven’t tried the new kitchen here.\u201d
\n     \u201cWho’s running that place?\u201d asked Skye.
\n     \u201cIt was either a thirty year old lesbian or a sixteen year old boy. I can’t be sure.\u201d
\n     Harp looked at Skye’s bottle of Coke and then looked down into her drink. \u201cJesus Skye, you’re gonna have to drag us old hags home.\u201d
\n     \u201cDon’t hit the sauce so fuckin’ hard,\u201d sneered Skye with a grin.
\n     \u201cFuck me,\u201d sighed Harp. \u201cI don’t know how much longer I can deal with this shit.\u201d
\n     \u201cWhat’s up? Your job?\u201d
\n     \u201cI think they’re gonna fire me,\u201d said Harp as she kept looking down into her drink.
\n     \u201cI thought you were one of their best hustlers.\u201d
\n     \u201cI am!\u201d exasperated Harp. \u201cThey have some bullshit problem with my ‘image’.\u201d
\n     \u201cYeah, you mentioned that.\u201d
\n     Colleen leaned towards Skye. \u201cYour job is still goin’ pretty good though, right?\u201d
\n     \u201cHell yeah. I get to jam sometimes and get paid for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe cover for the first book
\nThe Rise and Fall of Skye Wright<\/em><\/p>\n

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     Colleen started asking Harp about her workplace problems as Skye leaned back with her bottle of cola. She looked around at the young hipsters. Most of them looked like college students, but she knew some of the rougher looking ones were working class young people. There was a wide variety of secondhand clothes and band shirts around the place. There were a few punks, and a stray goth gang in one corner of the beer garden, but most of the people there were the younger crowd who looked as if they were definitely steeped in the urban scenes, yet most of them did not seem to be firmly invested in one genre.
\n      She saw dreadlocks, she saw punk shirts, she saw Doc Marten boots and Vans sneakers. She spied Derby jackets and chain wallets, Converse high tops and dyed black hair and leather bracelets. And there were tattoos on just about everyone in the place: arm tattoos, hand tattoos, neck tattoos, and even a few people with small face tattoos.
\n      Her eyes glazed over when she saw their one common denominator. Everyone in the place was drinking. Almost all of them were holding onto pint glasses, some of them with pitchers of beer on their tables. A few people here and there were drinking from small glasses with clear or brown liquor in them. Only a few had tall and colorful cocktails such as Colleen’s, but they were all drinking liquor.
\n      Skye turned and looked at her Coke bottle as she felt her heart drop.
\n     \u201cHave you heard of miso-sogyny?\u201d asked Colleen.
\n     \u201cWhat?\u201d asked Skye.
\n     \u201cPatriarchal soup.\u201d
\n     \u201cPrejudiced tofu soup?\u201d
\n     Colleen leaned on the table. \u201cIt’s a piece a friend of mine is working on. She’s trying to combine a punk show with an art show.\u201d
\n     \u201cWouldn’t that work better with an industrial show or a Goth show?\u201d
\n     Colleen held up her hands. \u201cHell, I don’t think it’s the worst idea in the world, but also not the best idea either.\u201d Colleen pointed at Skye. \u201cWhatever happened to that one friend of yours, the one with the eye patch?\u201d
\n     \u201cYou mean Sheet? That crusty who sang for Broken Vibes?\u201d
\n     \u201cThat’s the one! You know where she is? I want to see if she’s willing to put some of her paintings in danger for this thing.\u201d
\n     \u201cFuck if I know. I haven’t seen her since, jeez, last year sometime. She was gettin’ wasted at the Astroglide House.
\n     \u201cWhat?\u201d asked Harp. \u201cJunk?\u201d
\n     \u201cShe was smoking opium.\u201d
\n     \u201cOpium?\u201d winced Colleen. \u201cWhat the hell? Is she inside a forties detective novel or some shit?\u201d
\n     Skye shrugged. \u201cWell, she was also drinking herself into a stupor too.\u201d
\n     Colleen slumped onto the table. \u201cDamn. I was hopin’ to get her into that punk and art show.\u201d
\n     \u201cI thought you said that show was stupid,\u201d said Harp.
\n     \u201cYeah, it definitely is kinda stupid. I still want to help them out though.\u201d
\n     Skye leaned on the table. \u201cWell, go by some of the crusty punk palaces in West Berkeley and see if you can’t scrape her off the floor.\u201d
\n     Colleen waved her hands around with a look of disgust on her face. \u201cThe last time I had to drag someone out of a drug den was for Rachel Pubes.\u201d
\n     \u201cEwww!\u201d winced Harp. \u201cWhat were you doing with that nightmare?\u201d
\n     \u201cWait, who is Rachel Pubes again?\u201d asked Skye.
\n     Harp was still grimacing. \u201cShe’s that fucked up artist who uses things like body hair and vaginal discharge to make her pieces. She had that series of menstrual blood paintings.\u201d
\n     Skye winced. \u201cOh God, now I remember her now.\u201d
\n     \u201cWhat the fuck were you doing diggin’ up that nightmare?\u201d
\n     Colleen held up her hands in self-defense. \u201cHey, she’s a big draw. Her stuff may be disgusting but she knows how to fill up an art show.\u201d
\n     \u201cFuck me,\u201d groaned Skye as she looked around the beer garden. \u201cIs it just me or are the people in here starting to look younger?\u201d
\n     \u201cYou old,\u201d said Harp.
\n     Skye swatted Harp on the arm. \u201cYou’re almost as old as me!\u201d
\n     \u201cWe old,\u201d said Harp.
\n     Colleen leaned towards Harp. \u201cThere’s a young tie dye t-shirt who’s been staring at you this whole time, like you’re a full course meal.\u201d
\n     \u201cProbably a MILF hunter,\u201d dismissed Harp.
\n     \u201cThe older women thing?\u201d asked Skye.
\n     \u201cI could never sleep with someone who wears tie dye anyways.\u201d
\n     Colleen looked between Skye and Harp. \u201cFuck me, I just realized that we’re all single!\u201d
\n     \u201cWhat the fuck?\u201d asked Skye. \u201cI thought you were goin’ out with Boot Boy Jason.\u201d
\n     Colleen waved her hand dismissively. \u201cThat ended a few weeks ago.\u201d
\n     \u201cWhy?\u201d
\n     \u201cI dunno. We were never that serious. Besides, I think he has his eye on some young rude girl.\u201d
\n     \u201cGoin’ for jailbait!\u201d snarked Harp as she held up her drink. \u201cThey either want ’em old or young.\u201d
\n     \u201cMILFs or jailbait,\u201d said Skye.
\n     Colleen looked at Skye through her drink. \u201cWhat about you?\u201d
\n     \u201cWhat about me?\u201d
\n     \u201cI had Boot Boy and Harp had Griff. Who was your last?\u201d
\n     Skye held up her Mexican Coke bottle as if it were a shield. \u201cWell…\u201d
\n     \u201cBeen a while?\u201d asked Harp.
\n     \u201cNo. Yeah. Kinda.\u201d
\n     \u201cNow you know we’re gettin’ old.\u201d
\n     Skye put down her Coke bottle. \u201cMy relationships never end well. They usually blow up, or one of us ends up ghosting the other.\u201d
\n     Harp shot Skye a look. \u201cYou ghost people?\u201d
\n     Skye nodded. \u201cI ghosted Yuri, and he was like the coolest boyfriend I ever had.\u201d
\n     \u201cYikes,\u201d said Harp.
\n     \u201cAnyone you got your eye on?\u201d asked Colleen with a raised eyebrow.
\n     Skye sat back as if she were thinking about it. \u201cYou ever wondered what it would be like to date a civilian?\u201d
\n     \u201cWhat? Like someone in tie dye?\u201d asked Harp.
\n     \u201cNaw, I mean like, I’ve been hanging around a lot of college types. Sort of like, professorial types.\u201d
\n     \u201cYou’ve been hanging around German speakers, haven’t you?\u201d asked Colleen.
\n     \u201cToby’s been having people from the UC Berkeley German Department over to the group.\u201d
\n     \u201cThat’s what happens when you sober up,\u201d said Harp. \u201cPeople who aren’t total fuck ups start to look good.\u201d
\n     \u201cYeah, no shit,\u201d said Skye.
\n     Colleen screwed up her face. \u201cI tried going out with a civilian once. I mean, it was kinda nice havin’ someone with like, a real job and a nice house that didn’t look like a crazy artist’s studio or a drug den.\u201d
\n     \u201cSo what was the drawback?\u201d asked Harp as she sunk lower onto the table.
\n     \u201cWell, it can get to be a fucking drag, tryin’ to relate to someone who isn’t in that loop, who isn’t from one of your tribes. I mean, when it comes down to it, if a man doesn’t have Bauhaus on vinyl I just, well, I can’t really relate to them.\u201d
\n     Harp sat back and stretched out her slim body. \u201cI never know if those are start flags or red flags.\u201d
\n     \u201cBoth!\u201d said Skye. \u201cYou know, when you see he’s got William S Burroughs on his bookshelf and he’s obviously read it.\u201d
\n     \u201cBauhaus on vinyl,\u201d said Harp.
\n     \u201cSings along to The Exploited,\u201d said Skye.
\n     \u201cKnows who Brion Gysin is,\u201d said Colleen.
\n     \u201cSkull tattoos,\u201d said Harp.
\n     \u201cIs a tattoo artist!\u201d said Skye.
\n     \u201cOh fuck me, I would love to go out with a tattoo artist. Free tats!\u201d
\n     \u201cRE\/Search books?\u201d asked Skye.
\n     \u201cOh, you mean loaded questions quarterly?\u201d yarked Harp.
\n     \u201cHas a DVD of a Guy Maddin movie,\u201d said Colleen.
\n     \u201cWho?\u201d puzzled Harp.
\n     \u201cA really cool filmmaker from Winnipeg,\u201d said Skye.
\n     \u201cWhere the fuck is Winnipeg?\u201d
\n     \u201cYou don’t know where Winnipeg is?\u201d asked Colleen.
\n     \u201cThat’s it,\u201d said Harp as she leaned back down on the table. \u201cYou and Skye need to go out with each other now.\u201d
\n     \u201cI’m not that desperate yet,\u201d said Colleen.
\n     \u201cSorry Colleen,\u201d said Skye. \u201cI don’t butter my bread on that side.\u201d
\n     \u201cWell, if you really want some action you could always hit on Harp’s tie-dyed stalker.\u201d
\n     \u201cHell no. Never tie dye. I’d eat my Doc Martens before I’d ever sleep with a tie dye.\u201d
\n     Harp sat up straight in her chair and looked Skye right in the eye. \u201cSo you’re really thinking of going after a college professor?\u201d
\n     Skye shrugged. \u201cMaybe. Who knows. It might be a nice change from the usual working-class bohemians I always end up with.\u201d
\n     Colleen hugged her drink. \u201cAn actual income and no current or past substance abuse problems. Why not?\u201d
\n     \u201cSure,\u201d replied Skye uncertainly.<\/p>\n

Buy the Rise and Fall series here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0B3WBDZP2<\/a><\/p>\n

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Buy Stella Maris on Amazon, Skye’s story right before The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright<\/strong>. Free for Kindle Unlimited users!<\/p>\n

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Stella Maris is the sequel to my previous novel. Even though it can be read by itself, check out what Skye was up to before her adventures in Stella Maris!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Hell-Ever-Happened-Rozhenko-ebook\/dp\/B08WC4DK6G\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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