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"Oh I'm sorry Mr Bailey but I'm committed to helping building up the music department at Melrose and my coming career will be as a writer of fiction."
"But with us you'd be on a huge salary."
"But life is not only about money, is it Mr Bailey?"
Mr Bailey said he supposed not and asked how many books had Della had published.
"None but I've completed my first manuscript."
"Well that is scarcely the foundation of a new career Della."
"Well one has to place a stake in the ground and I've done that."
"Mr Bailey, I'm Della's mom and a senior executive at a publishing house. May I point out that Della's book has been accepted for publication and the decision of the publications committee has been to promote it heavily because it's picked as a probable big seller."
Mr Bailey shook the hand of the almost stunned Della and said good night.
"Then you do like my book?"
"Oh yes," McNeil said. "Didn't I tell you? It's brilliant dear. Women will devour it."
"Christ" was all Della managed to say before bursting into tears, reaching for Zane.
"Marry me?"
"Yes Zane. Let's go; I'm exhausted."
McNeil stood, mouth open and finally whimpered, "Christ, it's happening."
THE END
- COMMENTS
Anonymousover 2 years agoToo bad Della’s fella cheats and at the slightest disturbance in their relationship. That ruined his character for me.
Anonymousalmost 6 years agoI loved the first part of the story. It was like, Mick Dundee meets Martha Stewart. I laughed my ass off at parts of it. The middle part, when Zane and Della went to Australia, and to his family ranch was pretty good, but I thought the language was off. Della was speaking in a half-assed Aussie dialect. After that it seemed like all the American characters sounded more Aussie than American. Kind of toned the story down a bit for me. Still, a 5 Star effort. And thanks for sharing.
fanfarealmost 11 years agoThis story was as discombobulated and insanely confusing as real life.
Egmont, I love your writing style!
allimbaalmost 13 years agoI really loved your story. However, I'm not sure the affair worked out - there seemed to be no ending to it really (maybe I missed something - there was the fight). But besides that kudos.
Anonymousalmost 13 years agothe growth of characters is what makes a story worthy of reading; this one has it in bushel baskets. the dialogue is most excellent and is very clever at times. with work, this story could be a decent novel. it is far above the normal standard present both at this site and most others.
