Fear strode besides me down the dirt road.

I would love the book, as long as the person (woman?) doing the jogging isn't one of those wimpy, wishy washy, females who expect a man to come and rescue her. I get so tired of women who won't wade in and take care of the situation themselves. I love a woman who will get in there and start fighting the attacker herself and leaving the guy in a writhing pile on the floor. The first thing a woman is taught is that we don't defend ourselves, it isn't lady like. Then we also don't kick the guy in the groin either...that too isn't lady like. So what does the woman do? She stands there and screams or allows the guy to attack her. When I was in Thailand, I had a GI come out of the bushes wanting to have his way with me, starting by greeting me with a pair of hands on my boobs. I took a dim view of it and hauled off and kicked him in the groin (I was wearing my pointy toed cowboy boots). He went down in pain, and I kicked him a couple of more times to remind him that you don't attack "ladies" whenever he wanted to. The MP's found the guy in the bushes later that morning, and the guy spent three weeks in the hospital. In fact he was next to my husband in the hospital...he didn't recognize me, but he did state that he was NEVER going to try that kind of thing again, that it wasn't worth the pain in the groin.

I used to read these all the time, but now not so much.. Although I still do love a good private eye sort of story.. I'm more into historical settings these days.

I like the rhyme there but something in me prefer that sentences that have a rhyme be found as the last line in a paragraph. I am likely to see the picture more vivid if you add the weather and the setting or say if you are alone or with another person. The phrase dirt road suggests muddy path if the weather is not added. Having uncertainties must be minimized at best, in my opinion of course.