Welcome to DAY FOUR of
So today, we are welcoming Denise Grover Swank to the blog! Denise is the author of several adult novels and the YA series, On the Otherside… which is EXCELLENT. Having an unquenchable need for new Kindle books, an Amazon gift card burning a hole in my pocket, and an uncontrollable clicker finger, I picked up the first Otherside book, Here, on a whim one cold January night… and I was blown away by Julia, Reece and Evan’s story. It’s a bittersweet paranormal/sci-fi romance with touches of Fringe and some dystopian vibes, but here’s the book blurb… because it can explain it much better than I:
Sixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives. The doctors attribute this to her head injury, but no one can explain how a bracelet engraved with her name ended up at the scene of the accident. A bracelet no one has ever seen before. Classmate Evan Whittaker paid Julia no attention before the accident, let alone after. Now suddenly he’s volunteering to tutor her and offering to drive her home. She can’t ignore that his new obsession started after his two-day disappearance last week and that he wears a pendant she’s been drawing for months. When the police show up one night looking for Evan, he begs Julia to run with him, convincing her that Monica is still alive. Julia agrees to go, never guessing where he’s really from.
Cool, right? So I took a chance and asked Denise if she might be willing to write a scene from Reece’s POV for the blogoversary. (Why Reece? Because I ❤ him. A lot.) And guess what? She said YES, because she’s made of awesome! So here’s Reece’s short story, Once in a Lifetime, that gives the back story behind a painting mentioned in Here… so enjoy… <wink>
Once in a Lifetime (Reece Short Story)
A little bit about Denise…
Denise is a single mom who lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri raising five of her six kids. (The oldest has gone off to live on his own.) She loves to embarrass her children whether it be spontaneous dance parties in the kitchen or making her teens’ friends think she’s funny/cool. *gasp* (Even if its in her own mind.) On rare occasions, she is known to post stories about her crazy life on her family blog There’s Always Room for One More.She keeps her sanity by creating worlds to escape to and characters to hang out with.
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The Giveaway…
ONE (1) follower will win a paperback of Here by Denise Grover Swank (INTL)
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Happy Reading!
Thank you so much for having me! I loved writing this story!
Thanks so much for agreeing to do it!
I absolutely LOVE this short story!
Zeraphina, because… I love animals. ^_^
Thank you for the giveaway!
I love this excerpt! Reece broke my heart:( They’re perfect, he and julia!
I’d be Zeraphina, definitely!
Definitely Zeraphina,as I love animals and it would be extremely cool if I was good at archery 😀
Ooops! I forgot to change the comment option from the last giveaway, so the comments above will still count, but I’ve changed the question to something specific to THIS post…
Sorry, for the confusion!
I would move on! Better to find someone for me than wait for someone who may not even like me back!
I love this! I may have just switched sides…I don’t know. I still love the risks Evan is willing to take but I feel for Reece. Ugh…so torn! =)
Thanks for the giveaway ! As for the answer…i say move on, as hard as that might be. Being stuck on someone who doesn’t feel the same way is horrible for your soul !
Wellll….before I chose to move on I would definitely have alittle talk with Jules
I would move on. The life you have isn’t infinite, so therefore I would rather live it happily than wishing for what couldn’t be.
I’d definitely move on. It’s hard holding on to someone that long.
I’d certainly tell and show that person how much he means to me. No use in bottling feelings as they’re prone to mess things up even more. But if he doesn’t feel the same way I do, then I’d respect that and move on.
Honestly, I would move on, even if it was very hard.
I would move on and find someone who does love me.
I would move on. Thanks for the chance to win!
Definitely move on!
Thanks,
Leanne
I’d move on. There are billions of people in the world, she will find another soul mate
I’d probably do the same thing Reece did. You can’t pin after someone forever, you need to learn to move on and that there is someone else out there waiting for you.
ohmygoodness! Why didn’t this boy just yell at her!? Reece should have just kissed her and told her everything! It’s better to get it all out and then see what happens. Better to have done something, and know the answer, rather than keep wondering for the rest of your life!
I’d try to move on with the belief that if it’s meant to be, it will happen
I’ve been know to pine, but then eventually move on.
Move on.
i think that i would try and move on rather than wait around for someone to admit that they love me. But then again I have never been in her situation so its hard to say.
i would move on, at list I hope so.
Id Move On Hoping That If It Was Ment To Be It Will Happen.
I have been on both sides of that dilemma. I guess it all depends on how you really feel in your heart
I’d move on because life is too short!
I’d move on, but it doesn’t mean that I would settle for someone less or someone I don’t have any feelings for
Thanks Dani!
P.S. Silly me, I entered the wrong name in your question about the short story! hubby and tristan came from school and I lost my concentration, I hit enter without reading the question properly! Huhuhu… anyway, thank you for this. More power to you and your blog
xo, april
Hmm it’s a tough question but I think I would move on!
Thank you for the giveaway
I’m a move on type of person.
Gosh, not sure what I would do. I’ve pined, it’s hard. Perhaps it’s best to move on!
I’m a romantic, so I’d probably pine. Luckily, I’m married to my honey.
It’s sounds really corny, but I’d pine for the one I truly loved. If you go for the other one – you’re just settling because you can’t have the one you really want.
Move on.
I’d be moving on, for sure.
Thanks!
I know that the best would be moving on, but….knowing me I would pine for sure
I don’t think for forever but for a long time, yes.
Thanks!
xoxo
Honestly? On the outside it would appear as if I were moving on; however, in my heart I would pine away forever! Sad, I know!
ok, so it’s been one of those mornings and I messed up on the rafflecopter. For follower name, I didn’t finish my name before I hit enter- It’s Jolene Allcock and then for my twitter follower name for Denise Swank, I put down my e-mail. Sorry, I need coffee
My twitter name is @joleneallcock
I would most likely move on, or at least try to
Move on, but not totally as the love could come back…like in the movie Something Borrowed.
i would hope i would move on, but i don’t know that i’d ever actually stop loving the guy and hoping he’d come back!
I would move on,because I wouldn’t want to waste my energy on someone who doesn’t love me.
Move on… i wouldn’t and shouldn’t waste my time.
i would hate to love someone who doesn’t love me back. it sounds like torture. i was getting sad just reading it.
I would hope I could move on. Anything less and you wouldn’t be living!
I would like move on. At least I would try.
Thank you for the giveaway!
definitely move on, you waste enough life looking for the right person as it is
Afraid to say, I’d be pining away. I wouldn’t be able to settle for someone else. It would always bother me and I would always wonder “what if”. Eventually I may be able to move on, but I would be pining away for awhile.
Hmm…it’s always a tough situation. But if you’ve tried everything you can, then you have to move on. But you have to try hard if you really want it or else you’ll always be thinking “what if”. No one wants to live with regrets, so try hard, and then move on, if it doesn’t work in the end.
I haven’t read this whole book, only this small part. So I dunno..I need more to see. But I doubt I’d give up….if that’s what both of them wants.
Move on, definitely.
I would only move on after I’d tried everything to let them know that I loved them and wanted them.
Move on.. but that would take some getting used to
I guess I’ll hope for the feelings always, but moving on is necessary for living a life
Move on
I would probably pine on – unfortuately!
I would move on
Try to move on.
Move on. Ive done it before and im happy i did. I loved this guy that clearly wounld never return the feeling. So I left and never spoke to him again. Im much more happier now. Had i stayed it would have been nothing but misery.
I would try to move on.
I would move on. Definitely!!!
I think I would move on. I couldn’t sit there and pine away forever.
It is hard for me to say what I would do in that situation, I have never been in it before, I would hope that I would be able to move on as I think it would cause a lot of heartache.
I won…yay..Thanks so much..:D