Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Quick Reads: Little Hattie Sleeps
    Quick Reads: Little Hattie Sleeps
    Quick Reads: Little Hattie Sleeps
    Ebook13 pages12 minutes

    Quick Reads: Little Hattie Sleeps

    By Ed Rehkopf

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    An unexpected loss devastates a late 19th Century family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEd Rehkopf
    Release dateMay 14, 2012
    ISBN9781476418964
    Quick Reads: Little Hattie Sleeps
    Author

    Ed Rehkopf

    Ed Rehkopf is a retired hospitality veteran. During his long and varied career, he has managed two historic university-owned hotels, managed at a four-star desert resort, directed operations for a regional hotel chain, opened two golf and country clubs, worked in golf course development, and launched an operations resource website for the hospitality industry.

    Read more from Ed Rehkopf

    Related to Quick Reads

    Related ebooks

    General Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      THE CYBER Saviour

      Feb 10, 2021

      THE CYBER Saviour
      3 min read

    • Article

      At Life’s End, an Unconventional Therapy Puts a Woman at Ease

      Jan 5, 2018

      Nothing was ever easy in this woman’s life. She felt trapped — trapped in a life with the wrong parents, surrounded by the wrong people, and, as a result, she had a pregnancy with the wrong man for her and her child. But some lives are fulcrums on wh

      4 min read

    • Article

      To Hell And Back

      Oct 18, 2020

      Catherine Cho wakes on a bed in a room that’s “white, stark and plain”. She’s wearing a hospital robe, and her arms are strapped down. Her hands are clenched, and she notices there are strands of hair in them. A man in the room introduces himself as

      2 min read

    • Article

      Difficulties And Dilemmas

      Jul 7, 2023

      By JEN BEAGIN FABER Greta has landed herself in a big pickle. As a transcriber for a sex therapist it’s her job to listen to the recordings of his sessions and type them out. There’s one particular client who she finds utterly fascinating: a towerin

      3 min read

    • Article

      Nineteen And Pregnant In 1969

      Nov 1, 2022

      I hadn’t been religious for some time, but I prayed, God, please don’t let me die. The post Nineteen and Pregnant in 1969 appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Prevention

      Nov 10, 2021

      The whole thing was an accident, how Sharon discovered the situation. Her son drank his usual two mugs of black coffee and wolfed his cereal before she drove him to school. Usually he drove himself, but his car was in the garage. Otherwise it was a n

      18 min read

    • Article

      A Nurse’s Coronavirus Routine: Recording Videos She Hopes Her Family Will Never Need To Watch

      Apr 3, 2020

      Anticipating a call to treat #coronavirus patients in the ICU, a Seattle nurse makes videos for her family — just in case she doesn't come home one day.

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Pill

      Dec 10, 2023

      Marlee stopped taking the pill when she was fifty-two. She had been bleeding each month—albeit hardly and close to tar—so she figured she was fertile, sort of, that something would attach itself to her uterine lining even if not completely thriving.

      12 min read

    • Article

      All Harriet’s Pieces

      Apr 10, 2021

      Janie dropped the book into her lap and leaned her head against the outside of the translucent pig chamber. Warmth seeped from the chamber, a stark contrast to the cold atrium floor, covered with tiles Mama had found in some faraway place on one of h

      10 min read

    • Article

      Hell Is A City in Texas

      Jun 14, 2021

      Hell Is A City in Texas
      10 min read

    • Article

      No Party Pooper

      Jan 16, 2023

      No Party Pooper
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Power Of THOUGHT

      Jun 29, 2023

      The Power Of THOUGHT
      4 min read

    • Article

      Peter Mountford

      Dec 15, 2017

      Vivian spends most of the afternoon naked and strapped to the giant ottoman in the interior decorator’s office in Bethesda. When he finally unties her, the sun is low and she’s shaky and exhausted. He paddled her hard at some point, and that hot stin

      28 min read

    • Article

      Risky Women’s Business

      Sep 8, 2019

      Risky Women’s Business
      10 min read

    • Article

      Secrets That Won’t Rest: A family therapist uncovers the cost of keeping silent.

      Oct 17, 2013

      As someone who has studied and practiced family therapy for 37 years, I am repeatedly struck by a secret’s impact on a family. With the best intentions, parents often strive to protect a child from a shameful or painful event that happened in the pas

      5 min read

    • Article

      HEART & SOUL searching

      Sep 29, 2021

      HEART & SOUL searching
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Long Night

      Oct 1, 2022

      The Long Night
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Girl On The Bed

      Oct 29, 2019

      The Girl On The Bed
      4 min read

    • Article

      Baby Boys and Expletives

      Jun 10, 2022

      Baby Boys and Expletives
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Worst and Best Day

      Apr 16, 2022

      The Worst and Best Day
      8 min read

    • Article

      A Familiar Crisis

      Jul 24, 2020

      A Familiar Crisis
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Different Kind of Grief

      Apr 25, 2019

      A Different Kind of Grief
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Quick Reads

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Quick Reads - Ed Rehkopf

      Quick Reads:

      Little Hattie Sleeps

      Ed Rehkopf

      Published by Ed Rehkopf at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Ed Rehkopf

      Just when winter's last grip let go, when the grey mood of overcast, cold weather yielded to warm southerly winds and clear skies, when the promise of new beginnings brought a sense of joy and expectation, little Hattie Stanford passed suddenly away.

      George Stanford and his wife, Martha, had no warning of the unusual fever that carried away their only child in less than a day. George had received word of his daughter's illness at the courthouse where he had been researching a matter in the county records. While not unconcerned, he was not overly alarmed by the news. Children are always getting chills and fevers of one sort or another and he knew his wife to be easily alarmed. These ailments tend to pass quickly and the child is restored to health again as

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1