Sizzle Week part 2

Have you ever visualized your setting 

before you had a plot?

Imagined interiors before you had characters 

to occupy them?

Conjured up houses clear as a July lakeside morning? 

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   The 1760s Moravian farmhouse  
sits around a bend at the southeast outlet,

   completely out of character with the cottages.

Across the lake in the northeast corner there's a family compound: 

former chauffeur's quarters over the garage & a sleeping porch. 

A clay tennis court once filled the level field 

where the oak tree stands. 
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I lolled away childhood summers in a nearby bungalow

 listening to tales of earlier generations. 

It was just a matter of time until I added a tree house,
created some characters 
& 
hatched a plot.


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THE CHICK PALACE

Three Dilemmas, Two Friends, One Deserted Tree House 

during a simmering summer on Lake Allamuchy