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Chapter 19

Auteur: Chandon Kay
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I gasp.

My eyelids fly open.

“What is it?” Mitch asks with great interest. Standing, as well.

Blue had not been a hue I’d contemplated, for fear it would meld right into the ocean scenery. No, I want something that grabs and commands attention.

I immediately visualize a shade so rich and brilliant, a blue-turquoise so sensational, it truly would be a beacon.

Turquoise and white. With a darker blue or possibly black as a faint enhancement around the fringes to make it all pop.

I tell Mitch of my choice and add, “Imagine an awning out front in turquoise with ‘Bailey’s’ in white script, sitting on top of ‘CALIFORNIA CLAMBAKE,” capped in a stamped-type font, along with a logo that’s in the blue and outlined in white—a pot with a lid leaning against it and a lobster, crab, and prawn rising out of it, but it’s filled with, you know, clams and oysters and mussels. I don’t fucking have the concept down—I need a graphic designer. You get what I’m saying though, right?” I very enthusiastically
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