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    Girl, Shattered
    Girl, Shattered
    Girl, Shattered
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    Girl, Shattered

    By Alix Golden

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    Christen Calhoun is an artist trapped in heterosexual corporate America. Her only vice is her love for women. Admittedly having a thing for “lame birds,” Christen holds on tight to her heart when she meets Alicia.

    Alicia , a poetic New Yorker with a heart wrenching story she isn’t afraid to share, takes one look at Christen and claims her as her own. When she reveals to Christen her drug dealing past, will she lose Christen?

    Christen struggles to remain true to the girl in the mirror. What happens when the mirror is shattered? In Girl, Shattered you’re introduced to Christen Calhoun. Her story continues in Girl in the Mirror.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlix Golden
    Release dateAug 3, 2012
    ISBN9781476335377
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      Girl, Shattered - Alix Golden

      Girl, Shattered

      Alix B. Golden

      Copyright 2012 by Alix B. Golden

      Published by I Bleed Ink Publishing at Smashwords

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Chapter One

      My breakfast turned somersaults in my stomach as I drove my red Beetle to the bookstore for my date. I looked into my side mirror, catching a glimpse at my unusually pale face. You are sick, my reflection spoke to me. I ignored her, turning into the small parking lot.

      I placed a brown knee length boot to the pavement as I exited my Beetle. I checked my appearance in the glass, patting my afro into perfect roundness, and touching up my apricot lip gloss.

      I was meeting Alicia. We’d connected online about two weeks ago. She’d really blown me away. I’m ever the sucker for a creative mind, she’d delivered poetry to my email inbox on a consistent basis.

      Her feminine appearance betrayed her aggressive nature. She had been extremely persistent about meeting since our first phone call. Possibly I was confusing her nature with her upbringing. She was from New York. Wasn’t every New York native a bit pushy?

      Her accent, in combination with her word play quickly did me in… And her pictures didn’t hurt. With Puerto Rican and Jamaican lineage, her look was exotic. Her hair and skin were nearly the exact same shade of burnt caramel. Her hair hung down past her shoulders in perfect ringlets, though in most pictures her hair was pulled back into a ponytail, highlighting the strong features of her ancestors.

      I’d put her off initially for the ever present and equally talented Kameron, another poet I’d met online first, but Alicia’s tenacity won me over. Kam, as she liked to be called, was very interested in learning me. We’d exchanged emails building the type of intimacy Alicia and I had yet to create.

      Kam not only wanted to know who I was, but how I evolved, and who I ultimately planned to be. She encouraged my love for photography, had a mature approach to relationships and family…Yeah, she was damn near perfect.

      What was the issue? We were stagnant. At some point, any wannabe online romance needed to progress to a face to face meeting. After a month or so of email, it was time. It was beyond time. She’d given me her number, but never asked for mine, and well…A girl likes to feel as though she’s worth a bit of effort. Pursue me, dammit. Her nonchalance was a turn off.

      So here I am, with the heels of my boots clicking against the pavement, and my stomach sounding a silent alarm, to meet Alicia.

      I recognized her immediately as I approached the empty patio surrounding the bookstore. She was slim. No ass, no hips, no breasts. Well, just

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