Muddy Minutes: Is When Soiled Souls Exist

By Rima Jbara

Sand rasped incidents in my life, causing an abrasive outcome. Down came the rain, smothering me with mud and splattering me with my tears, creating a pool of sorrow that I swam in. An intervening energy took over me. I felt weightless as it pushed me through murky incidents. As sand and rain danced as one, it tormented me, leaving smearing mud on my days. Devastation overcame me with a magnitude that quivered my being. As I soaked in this salt water, my life remained damp for some time.

Muddy Minutes accentuates a phase in the life of actress Turquoise Colmenares which depended on one decision that would change her present and maybe her future, considering that it is impossible to satisfy everyone. Brave acts and scenes of perseverance gained her incessant admiration, and unveiled a subject that many actors dreaded about. She walked through her blown away dreams and tossed hopes with grace. She dared to live through all the muddled moments.

Rima Jbaras message in this novel is to help you experience the joy of being alive, and the completeness that gratitude can bring with fortitude, conviction and integrity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Mar 14, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456776626

Rima Jbara

Rima Jbara was born on 20th August 1979, in Damas, and spent most of her childhood writing short stories and eventually novels. At the age of 14, she published her first novel and by the time she turned 15, she gave readers her first bestseller. Rima’s zest for writing continued as she released Road To Hell, The Mystique of Asmahan and Shams. It took Rima three years to write Hope, which was called “a masterpiece” by many critics and readers. Through her writing, Rima has fought tradition and reality, and has always chosen daring topics to shock conventional people.

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First published by AuthorHouse 03/09/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4567-7663-3(sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4567-7662-6 (e)

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Contents

Introduction

First Act

Decay of People

Second Act

Confessions of A Mask

Third Act

Autumn & Winter

Fourth Act

Forbidden Colors

Fifth Act

Air Floating In Time

Sixth Act

One Way Train

Seventh Act

Laughter In The Dark

Eighth Act

Triumph

About the Author

Introduction

Turquoise embarked her acting profession at the age of fifteen in arty drama roles under the supervision of her mother Blanca-Flore and supported by her elder sisters; Lolita, a model and Sophia, a cosmetic surgery doctor. She created a niche of her own and reigned the artistic movie making productions in Argentina. Turquoise was the most flourishing among her sisters. Her stardom spread across Latin America and granted her numerous cinematic awards.

The Colmenares ladies were bright, vibrant, distinctive and successful. The women shared and discussed work opportunities with each other. The family resided in a grand house in Buenos Aires, yet owning other houses in Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia.

First Act

Decay of People

Earth

From mud, I was made and to earth I will return. Water is mixed with sand, forming my mud on earth.

From Action to Cut

From the day I decided to start my acting career, I refused all T.V. series offers. It does not have the magic that the movies have.

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I would rather stay home for a long time without work than act in movies that are commercial just to gain money.

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My movies are pure art, out of ten scripts, I might choose only one but surely that suits me the best.

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I make sure when I am on screen to give my ultimate best in terms of the character’s depth, if I cannot, then I would rather not take the project."

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Apart from researching about my character, I try to live this character for weeks before I start the shooting. If I am not that character by then, then I withdraw from the project and that is why producers are hesitant when they approach me. But when I become the character they envision, my artistic capabilities are limitless.

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What accessorizes my appearance is my body language and the expressions created on my face. I don’t need materialistic accessories to enhance my appearance.

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"I don’t like to have guests on the set, from my