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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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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Ohmygoodness. I'm ready to hang out with you on a daily basis now. Those are my favorite kind of conversation!
ReplyDeleteLol. I may not be able to keep up with you then, Julia. But I sure would try.
DeleteThank 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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