A Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Award nominee if I've ever seen one.
“Pierced the pulse”, now that’s some fine writing.
This woman is an attorney?
“Jasmine is a graduate of the University of Georgia, where she simultaneously earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in both African American Studies and Political Science, while also earning a minor in Spanish.”
I would have started the sentence with “On a dark and stormy night one year ago...”
But that might be considered racially insensitive (all that “darkness”/s;)
Well, it was a dark and stormy night.