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I Was Apparently Taken for a Ride

from Taken for a Ridextravaganza Master Pack by Skye & Friends

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An excerpt or three from: books.google.com/books?id=tIYwBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=%22taken+for+a+ride%22+%22skye%22

This is probably the reason it took an extra week or two than I was planning to upload the rest of the TFARX material. See, I recorded this right after recording Track 17 on the DAY of release, but on listening to those first recordings, I thought, "I could do it better." I DID keep the intro un-revised though! Took me three more tries, but I think it was worth getting that narrator voice down-pat. Hard to strike a tone for reading a book I really don't understand in full.

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Very, very often, people do not tell me things that concern me, and so I have to Google™ them. So I decided one day recently to Google "Skye", my name (that is my name), and then "taken for a ride".

I found... that there was... a direct quote from a book... entitled, "The War Hero's Locked Away Heart" by Louisa George (available as e-Book. For $3.99) -- I found, directly quoted in there, the words, "taken for a ride, Skye". In that order. Right next to each other, all those words right next to each other without anything in-be-t-tween. I would like to read off a couple pages of this for you.

"Then he sent the stone spiraling into the air, hitting the far side of the waterfall with a thump.
His hands fisted by his sides as he gulped in air.

When he'd wrestled his breathing back to normal, he took her hand. 'Not all men are like him. He misused his position, took advantage of you. You were taken for a ride, Skye. A long one.'

'And I don't want to talk about him ever again.' Adam was different. A real man, caring, tender. She could love him, perhaps. Given time. Her arms ached with the effort of throwing the rocks but a strange, deep calm wrapped itself around her. Brian's taunts had been exorcised from her brain. She wouldn't let anyone treat her like that again. She deserved better. She deserved the best. 'I feel so much better.'

'Don't ever let anyone treat you like that again, do you hear me? Don't give anything else up--go out and do what you want to do.'

If she knew what that was now. 'Yes, sir.'

The shadows that had flitted across his eyes disappeared and he led her back to the picnic. 'Now you are going to eat. A decent amount.'

Her stomach growled. At the back of her mind the niggling fat mantra ticked, but for the first time in a long time she chose to ignore it. 'Yes. Watch out, there'll be none left for you.'

'I don't care. Just seeing you relaxed and enjoying yourself is good enough for me. Now, there's German salami, French Brie, Italian ciabatta, Greek olives and...'"

Uh.

"'... tzatziki.'"

T-- tchyeeah... tzyatzeekee. *laughing* Tchyeeyacheekee. ... It's Tchyeeyacheekee!! ... *sharp inhale* (Ain't that special, he's got tchyeeyacheekee!? *laugh*)

Okay, okay, I'm--I'm gonna... see what else I can find over here, I'm gonna skip around.

Why is that books that are about girls... finding the perfect man... hardly ever have any good lines for the girls? Like, all... of the lines are dedicated to this--this MAN... dude... guy. I'm looking for a funny line for her to say, but man, she's so MILQUEtoast.

"'You were part of something, had strong ties. Not many people can say they've had such loyal relationships.' She crawled next to him and laid her head against his chest. Flattened her palm over his heart. 'But why...'"

...

"'... a dragonfly?'"

"'... why...'"

"'... a dragonfly?'"

*wheezes*

"His throat caught as her remembered their promises and the hope of those last few days before…the end. 'It symbolises a life of no regrets. Living in the moment.'

'Is that what you do?'

He laughed. Not even remotely. 'It's what I told myself I'd been doing for the last few years. I had no life plan any more, no job, no wife, few friends, and fewer who'd put up with my moods. Flitting fr--'"

-- You see, he's getting a HUGE monologue, he's getting ALL of this text. ... What is she? She just likes FOOD.

Umm, I'm just gonna go back to the beginning of the book, okay, Chapter One:

"'Four. More. Weeks.'"

*incredulously* What?!

"Skye Williams repeated her mantra with every muscle-screaming step on the last five hundred metros of her beach run. In four weeks she would hit Europe a dress size smaller if it killed her. And judging by her raging heart rate and throbbing joints, it probably would. She hated running, but it was a necessary evil.

As she dug deep for the home stretch a westerly wind whipped hot sand across her face with a ferocity that bordered on microdermabra--"

Oo-WHAT?! Microo... ooDEEERMabrasionnn.

Okay, so her first line of dialogue is:

"'Four. More. Weeks. Four. More…'"

And then it's:

"'London. Paris. Athens. Rome.'"

She speaks in nouns.

So dark and mysterious, she's so...
... not dark, not mysterious, not person.

*in Skye Williams voice* I am a person, dut-dut-dut-DAAA-woo~

See? That right there? That was more personality than... is... in the book.
There we go.
... Is a girl.

*in Skye Williams voice* I'm a girl!

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from Taken for a Ridextravaganza Master Pack, released January 7, 2016

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Skye Hawaii

Skye frolics through and delves into in ev'ry metaphorical acre of the expansive, fruitful meadow of the creative arts. He's an amateur author, actor, artist, comedian, composer, film-maker, musician, playwright, singer-songwriter, and just plain ol' writer. He also likes drumming out rhythms on his thighs.

He doesn't really know what he's doing, but, needless to say, he's doing a lot of it.
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