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    One Foot in the Door And Other Short Stories
    One Foot in the Door And Other Short Stories
    One Foot in the Door And Other Short Stories
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    One Foot in the Door And Other Short Stories

    By Lynda Rodriguez

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    In the title story, One Foot in the Door (the other one in the gutter) a young woman attributes the creation of her son to Alternative Music and other shenanigans of her youth.
    Other Stories are "When all is said, it's done", a letter from a runaway to her best friends; "The Classic", a love-lorn boy makes a discovery and finds that he is slowly turning into the Blob; "Beneath the Bereft" a grief stricken friend finds herself searching for answers to a non-question; and "Both Sides. Now" a situation of extreme peril leads to the discovery of a parallel universe.

    Special Bonus: First chapter of upcoming novel "Circumstance", a homicide detective confronts a murderer on the last days before execution. A

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLynda Rodriguez
    Release dateAug 9, 2012
    ISBN9781476375267
    One Foot in the Door And Other Short Stories
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    Lynda Rodriguez

    Lynda is a native of North Texas. She grew up in a relatively normal environment and attributes her bizarre sense of humor and inquisitive nature to the fact that she was read to as a child. She has Master's Degrees in the equally lucrative fields of Performing Arts and Education. She has been called, among other things, High Functioning.

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      One Foot in the Door And Other Short Stories - Lynda Rodriguez

      One Foot In The Door

      and other short stories

      By

      Lynda Rodriguez

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 by Lynda Rodriguez

      Table of Contents

      One foot in the door (the other one in the gutter)

      When All Is Said, It’s Done

      The Classic

      Beneath the Bereft

      Both Sides. Now.

      Bonus: Circumstance-Chapter one.

      One foot in the door (the other one in the gutter)

      I blame The Replacements and Husker Du. I realize that Paul and the boys are not entirely at fault and that it’s not fair to lay judgment at the feet of the Twin Cities Alternative Rock scene, but I know that I would never have gotten involved with Luke Rubin if there hadn’t been a good soundtrack.

      Without Luke Rubin my life would have headed merrily into the opposite direction. Forget predestination and all of that other stuff, my life path definitely skewed when I met him.

      I was feeling particularly vulnerable when I met Luke Rubin. That sounds so final. Like when I met him, the earth shook and some sort of external conflict and uncontrollable force stopped time as we know it, and it was a day that would unify the planet in a moment of cultural reference.

      Well, to me, it was. I was not quite 20 years old and away from home for the first time. I was on a work/ study job and had decided that it was just too pathetic to hang out in the dorm on the first weekend. One of my suitemates passed along a flyer for a party at an art major’s house so I thought I would just stop by and see what happened.

      Luke is what happened. We clicked in an immediate discordant way. I felt awkward and goofy. He actually was awkward and goofy. He told me that I was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. I told him that he was the first guy I ever dated that was nice to me. The summer blurred by like a teen comedy, except the music was much better.

      When the summer was over and I went back to from whence I came, I asked him if we were still going to see each other.

      He said, We’ll see what happens.

      If I had been paying attention, I might have noticed the cliché and I could have figured out what happened next.

      A month after I got back to school, I sent him a card with a couple of pictures I had of the two of us together. I didn’t hear back from him. I remembered all of the nights we spent sleeping under the window in his weird little apartment when it was too hot to move. I remembered the mornings when we both woke up late and I had to go to class and he kissed me good-bye in the doorway. I remembered them when I had to admit to myself that I was pregnant. I wasn’t angry with Luke. I was just sad about the whole thing.

      And five years later the family who adopted my baby contacted me and asked if I wanted to see him. They sent me pictures over the years, but I hadn’t seen Josh since he was two days old. Josh’s family was planning to be in the area for a few days and said that we could arrange something.

      They were going to be staying about five minutes away from where Luke lives.

      I wrote another letter.

      This time, he called me.

      I never really quite knew what to say. The first time I saw her, I blurted out the first words that popped into my head. Five years later, I

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