This week's podcast is from a short romance story. This part is the meet-cute.
The Podcast:
The Transcript:
This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for January 9, 2026, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This is part of a summer romance short story.
She was here, alone. Her teenagers were learning how to adult. She wouldn’t pull them away from that, not when she didn’t really need them. Maybe she wasn’t so much of an adult herself, not if she wanted some company to do the last few bits of wrapping up her Nana’s life.
As she looked out to the ocean, she heard a low voice say, “Diana? Diana Tremblay?”
She turned and looked at him. A few inches taller than she was, with dark curly hair that had started to gray at the sides. Laugh lines that extended past his dark sunglasses. And a smile she would know anywhere.
“Chase! Chase Bowman! Wow. It’s a small world. I didn’t realize you would be here today.”
He smiled and said, “In my defense, I didn’t know you would be here either. Besides, what are the chances we would bump into each other where the hermit crabs are, and not the snack bar?”
The Video:
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