For Tomorrow We Diet (a humor / horror short-short)

Merry finds a magical tea that will grant her innermost wish -- if she can use it wisely.Length: 2,000 words (short story)

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EXCERPT: THE WOMAN'S FINGERS are inching toward the box, but the orderly isn't watching. He's flexing his muscles in the mirrors that line the physical therapy room. The woman's wheelchair is near the counter, near enough to reach the box if she had the strength to lift her emaciated arm. Her eyes are fixated on her goal. Shallow, excited breaths rasp across her slack lips. Her fingers are just touching the cardboard when the orderly whisks the chair to the center of the room.

About the Author

Kary English grew up in the snowy Midwest where she avoided both siblings and frostbite by reading book after book in a warm corner behind a recliner chair. She blames her one and only high school detention on Douglas Adams, whose Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy caused her to laugh out loud while reading it behind her geometry textbook.Today, Kary toils in obscurity in an ivory tower somewhere west of the Mississippi. Her written work includes several academic publications, a K-12 language arts curriculum, anti-bullying materials, and more than a hundred news articles on some of the world's most popular websites. A student of New York Times bestsellers David Farland and Tracy Hickman, Kary hopes that her own work will someday be detention-worthy.

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