Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Guest Author Nana Prah



Are the words ‘come again’ considered dirty? By Nana Prah

 

I used to work as one of those people who put stickers on the upper right hand corner of cd covers. It sounds like something the author in me would make up, but I’m not that good. When I went to a temp agency, instead of sending me to an office, I got sent there. I became the fastest sticker placer in the building. Okay, I ranked third.  

 

I met an older man there who he had to be in his late fifties, sharp witted and had the tendency to make all conversations sexual.  I’m not a prude by any means, and can get dirty with the best of them as long as it’s not too crass, so we hung out and laughed a lot.

 

Here’s one of the conversations we had when someone referred to two other workers by saying “They came together.”

Calvin (with a smirk): Not likely.

Me: What are you talking about? I saw them, John and Rita came together.

Calvin: It never happens that a man and a woman come at the same time. Either one comes first and then the other follows or one comes and the other gets nothing. Never together. Not in real life.

 

It took me a few seconds, but when the light bulb flicked on I went back to my stickers with a chuckle.

 

It always tickles me when a person asks me to repeat myself by saying, “Come again.”  Get it?

 

Are there any innocuous words that get you laughing when you hear them?

 

 

 

The Blurb

Ghanaian nurse Aurora ‘Ora’ Aikins never expected to find the love of her life while on vacation in South Africa. Engaged to another and believing that love has no place in her life, she returns to Ghana, and puts duty and honor first.

 

Three years later, Dr. Jason Lartey still can’t get Ora out of his mind or his heart. After learning she never married, he takes a risk and moves to Ghana hoping to rekindle what they started. His sudden appearance in Ora’s Emergency Department sends sparks flying all over again.

 

They’re in the same country, working in the same hospital, and together but distance creeps between them. Can they make their destined love one for the ages? 

 

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About the Author:

Nana Prah was born in Ghana, West Africa, raised in the US and currently resides in Ghana where she loves her job as a writer and nurse educator. She has been writing since she can remember (in her journal) and has been an avid reader of romance novels since the eighth grade. She has finally been able to utilize the years and years of inadvertent research into writing her own romance novels where love always conquers all.

 

 

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Twitter: @NanaPrah


 

 

Enjoy the following excerpt for Midwife to Destiny:

Ora focused on putting one foot in front of the other as if she were a one-year-old learning how to walk. After turning the corner and seeing the back of his head, she froze. She would know that head anywhere. He’d grown his hair out a little, but his adorable, Will Smith ears gave him away. Initiating the process of pivoting and sprinting out of the ED unnoticed sprang to mind when he turned around and his gaze caught hers.

The air became charged with tension and neither of them moved. Her heart threatened to pop out of her chest with the force of each beat. The nurses stood between them, looking back and forth as if they watched a tennis match. They didn’t bother to hide their expressions of curiosity.

They’d never seen Ora behave in such a manner. Not cool as a cucumber super nurse. Like herself, they kept looking at the new doctor just because of his tall, broad-shouldered, gorgeous stature. The past three years had matured him, adding a few lines around his eyes and the new feature of a goatee with a moustache changed his countenance a little. But otherwise, the same man she’d met three years ago, at least in the physical sense, stood before her.

After an eternity, Ora snapped back to attention. “Akwaaba, Dr. Lartey. Welcome to the ward.” Madam Professional stuck out her hand for a handshake.

Her words seemed to drag him out of his own stupor. “Uh….”

She had rendered the man speechless. Ora’s gracious nature—that’s what she blamed it on, anyway—took pity on him and she touched his shoulder. The contact sent sensual awareness through her and she recoiled her hand.

“Hello, Aurora. Please forgive me. It’s just that I’m a little surprised to see you.”


“Not as much as I am,” she muttered, attempting to squash both the joy bubbling up inside of her at seeing him again and the overwhelming sadness of what she’d been missing for so long.

“Pardon me?” he asked.

“I didn’t expect to see you here. It’s a surprise to me, too.” She tried to smile, but it came out contorted, as if she’d been able to have a painful, rocky bowel movement after being constipated for seven days.

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3 comments:

  1. Ohmygoodness. I'm ready to hang out with you on a daily basis now. Those are my favorite kind of conversation!

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    1. Lol. I may not be able to keep up with you then, Julia. But I sure would try.

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  2. Thank you so much for having me on your blog Krista. I apologize for the message being a couple of days late, I could have sworn I wrote a comment the day of the post. Perhaps I was too busy talking non-dirty dirty.

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