Victoria, the matriarch of the family, is convinced that there is a conspiracy to remove her from the home she has lived in for 38 years. Victoria petitons her daughter Beth from her comfort zone in Atlanta to solve the mystery. The scene turns violent when Beth is injured and the family pet is put in danger. What will mishap next if they do not solve the mystery soon.If you have come to dislike Herbert Jamison after reading this story, wait until you read what he's done in "Shame On You" coming up next. He gets more disgusting

Life became routine until Elaine receives a juicy piece of gossip through email from a coworker in another office. Thinking she sent it on to a printer in an area of the office that would be seen only by her devious friend Lonny, she is distracted and sends it to the wrong printer. What follows changes the playing field for her job and the people involved in the rumors."So what do you think that was all about?" Madeleine is the insurance underwriter supervisor and has worked with there as long as Elaine and friends with Shirley for those years. Elaane put up with but did not trust Madeleine. She wondered if she knew more than she let on."All about speaking in riddles. It could have been nice if we knew what he was talking about." Elaine was hoping to draw her you."I guess he figures, if the shoe fits, if too know what I mean." Madeleine was grinning suspiciously.

The stories contained within this ebook are Flash Fiction. They are stories about everyday people encountering situations that they are faced to deal with the best way they can. Meet Nelson who wins a lotto ticket in "Lucky...Hell" and has to make a decision and other short shorts.Daniel's mother Kelli, has married Duncan Osborne , a high school football coach who has taken an interest in his overly indulged new stepson. Daniel despises his new "shit-for-brains" stepfather, mentally accusing him of abuse.One night Daniel awakens to someone in his room and is propelled into a fast pace sexual paranormal escapade, accelerating him into puberty. His friend Jimmy comes to spend a few days with him and they soon get caught up in the most confusing adventure either one of them could have imagined.Some Sexual Content and Mild Violence. NC 17 .ALSO author of THE SEVENTH CHAKRA ..

You could be in one of these stories.There is Gabby who inherits a cat and a new life. Itzy loses her job because of “hands on” kind of boss and finds her mother’s killer through her new job. Aileen finds strength in her loved ones’ when her son goes to jail for murder and Nelson wins the lotto. Each of the fourteen stories is a pleasure read and short enough to be read in one sittingThe game of Life has a way of sneaking unusual plots on us that change life’s direction. It must be played out like the last act of a Broadway play. There is no blueprint and the outcome is uncertain, the players are all there waiting to play their part while anticipating the next move. Most players don’t see what's coming and reject the concept. If they were asked, it’s just Life playing games

Aileen knew her son Bobby had always been a rebel and hated authority growing up. . But at 29, he found a woman she hoped would settle him down. Until the phone call came, saying that he had killed the mother of his children during one of their many violent fights when the knife she threatened him with with was turned on her during the struggle, causing her death.The day of Bobby's sentencing came and she arranged to work the evening shift at the Horsey. She refused Joyce's offer to accompany her to the courthouse. It was Aileen's intention of getting through the ordeal as quickly as possible with a minimal amount of stress. Flashbacks of Bobby's earlier years haunted her. All her efforts to help him ended in failure. She had asked herself many times where she went wrong, but deep down, she knew she hadn't. There were just those people who chose a different path than the one you hoped they would take.

Three teenage boys living in cattle country on three different ranches are struggling to survive the boredom of summer vacation. The prankster of the group comes up with a plan that is supposed to be a joke, but turns out to be a prank that will land them in trouble with the law.Do You Really Want To Be a Successful Online Dater?Online dating is an excellent topic. Almost everyone has some experience with it, or, at least, knows someone who has some involvement with it. Love Click is neither a book for comparing different dating services by price nor for providing tips and tricks such as uploading your best photo and introduction lines. Instead, the book introduces the hilarious, sad or unusual adventures of 13 ladies following their first date with a Prince Charming; a slice of life of 13 different characters from Bangkok to Florida, from Switzerland to Budapest. The reader may like or dislike the heroes, but be prepared for an emotional connection. Most of the stories have an open ending that allows for further examination. The primary intention of Love Click is to entertain. However, wise girls learn from other’s mistakes. Are you a wise girl?

Mila was about to learn the hard way that easy money has a price that comes with it. When put in danger, she had to make the choice to give up her lucrative practice or put her friends and family in further danger."Leave by the back door. Weave your way home. Be careful and don't be followed. They are out there but it appears they do not know who you are or where you are at this moment. I got their license plate number. I'll make some calls. I know someone on the force who owes me a favor. Keep in mind that they could find out who you are at any time. It only takes one student to spill the info."Before they left, they each called home and tried to act as if nothing was wrong and to advise their parents that they were downtown and would be home shortly.The trip home took them almost an hour before they felt they it was safe. "Mila, call me if you hear anything, anything at all. This is a nightmare."

A tale of preteen twin boys doing what they do best, getting into mischief. While at their summer cottage on the lake they find a project that stretches their imagination. They find the boredom of their school vacation turns out to be an adventure that will get them into trouble with the usual valuable lessons of life.Through iconic and oft-reproduced works, American realist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) gained widespread recognition as the artist who gave visual form to the anonymity, isolation and (perhaps) boredom, loneliness and stagnation of twentieth century American life. This collection of short fiction takes nine Hopper canvases and imagines a narrative beyond the frame of each ‘still life’ presented therein. Just as filmmakers like Sam Mendes or Wim Wenders were energised by Hopper’s tableux to introduce temporal and spatial motion to moments frozen in time, so too will this suite of stories take the reader on a journey through the interwar and later years of Hopper’s women. Their lives anything but still, with experiences transcending the cultural and historical constraints of their all-too-human condition, these works of painterly prose invite the reader to enter and explore the worlds conjured by Hopper’s art in text.

Carol is asked to do a favor and agrees to help a neighbor apply for a job online. The neighbor, Dinah Cantrell a hair stylist by trade, has had a motorcycle accident leaving her with nerve damage to her hand. She can’t pay her rent, doesn’t want to work around people, and has no interest in learning the computer.I checked the peephole and could see the back of someone's head. The bleached blonde hair revealed dark roots and I took a good guess that my neighbor, who I nicknamed Dumber Drummer stood at my door. Her nickname came from her feeble attempt to play the drums. A hobby she took up some time ago. Her playing never seemed to improve but her playing didn't interrupt my sleep pattern. I figured it was a way to get out her frustrations and excused the pitiful playing.

Twenty-one year old Monica Younger must now live with the realization that she has been acquitted of the death of her five year old daughter. Purely because their wasn't enough evidence. Public opinion however had her convicted before the trial. The real horror lies in the fact that she didn't know if she was guilty or not, How was she to put this nightmare behind her?The guilt, the tortuous fear for her life and the gap in her memory made her wish she was the one who had died and not her daughter.Screaming voices in her head kept stopped her from sleeping well at night. They started while she was in jail awaiting trial. One of those voices she heard was her daughter calling her; "mommy, mommy, I love you,” Those nights she would wake in a cold sweat, and would have taken her own life if she could have found a way.

Gabby feels trapped in a dull life with a boyfriend who is after her best friend. An unexpected phone call changes her life. An aunt she forgot she had, left her the inheritance of a cat along with the cat’s dowry. A trip to Michigan, a married lawyer she finds attractive and a couple of senior citizens along with Dolly the cat start her on a new journeyGabby and Dolly appear in "You Can Run...But You Can't Hide!" approximately one year later.

Itsy’s principles are put to the test and she decides they are more important than her current job. Not believing in coincidence, when she gets the opportunity to work at a detective agency she is hoping that she will find her mother’s killer who she has been searching for 25 years, Unable to further the search alone, she is aided by her new friends at the agency in resolving her cold case.For those readers of "The Cat's Dowry" that might have wondered what happened to Gabby and Dolly after their adventures the answer is within the pages of this story. Their lives intertwine to complete the story and move on.[Since she had some free time before her appointment, the idea of working on her mother's file crossed her mind. She picked up the file. The file was now over an inch thick. She opened the cover and spread out the top sheets to review her progress. She quickly put the pages back, closed the cover and put the file back in the drawer in her nightstand. Whenever she worked on the case, she would get horribly depressed. She couldn't afford to let that happen today. She had to keep positive and upbeat. There would be another time it just isn't today. Even if she had someone else to share, the task with it wasn't so bad. However, if she was alone, it tore her up. ]