: About Me

J. Sanders Nelson is a mother, teacher and writer residing in Dallas, Texas. She is an award winning playwright, screenwriter and romance novelist. She is inspired by the things she loves most in life: her, son, music and her favorite author's James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Her first anticipated novel "The Supper Models" is due out Fall of 2009.

My passion is ...

the written and performed spoken word

I know too much about ...

being eternally single

My parents always told me ...

You have to want to help yourself

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a farmer

My favorite memory ...

is meeting the love of my life

Why I write ...

Because God granted me the gift to do so

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

When things Fall Apart and anything by Eric Jerome Dickey

My first job ...

teaching

My best moment ...

was seeing a little squishy thing in my tummy at my first sonogram

My inspiration ...

people in love

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Unrequited love

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Do you ever think about, she paused for a moment and took a breath, making love. Her body tensed as she waited for his reply, but instead of speaking he growled a low sexy laugh. She wondered if he meant it to be sexy or was she justyou know. He breathed through his laughing and thought if he should tell the truth, and shame the devil as his grandmother used to say. Of course, since their first and only meeting he had thought of nothing else but touching her, kissing her, laying next to her and listening to her breath. It was the most passionate unconsummated situation he had ever been in....

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