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    I'll Love You Forever: Weird Love Tales
    I'll Love You Forever: Weird Love Tales
    I'll Love You Forever: Weird Love Tales
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    I'll Love You Forever: Weird Love Tales

    By April Grey

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    A fastidious housewife wishes her dead husband wasn't quite so devoted.

    A dying writer finds salvation in one of her characters.

    A mobster discovers that he isn't as tough as he thought.

    And a folklore spell teaches a young woman that monsters are most often found in our own minds.

    Four tales about love, twisted from what you'd expect, shows the many turns true love can take.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApril Grey
    Release dateFeb 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301783625
    I'll Love You Forever: Weird Love Tales
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    April Grey

    April Grey lives in NYC with her husband and son. The first part of her adult life was spent working in the theatre as a director, literary manager and asso. artistic producer. She supported her theatre habit with work in law firms as a paralegal. The later part of her life was spent being a wife, mother, educator and writer.Her collection of short stories, The Fairy Cake Bake Shop and 13 Other Weird Tales can be found on Amazon. Her novel, Chasing the Trickster, by Eternal Press can be found there as well.

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      I'll Love You Forever - April Grey

      I'll Love You Forever: Weird Love Tales

      By April Grey

      I'll Love Ya Forever, But... was originally published by Eric's Hysteric's

      Doing Time was originally published in Everyday Fiction

      Todd Nathaniel's Last Case was original published in Ephemera

      I'll Love You Forever: Weird Love Tales

      Published by Lafcadio Press

      Copyright 2013 April Grey

      Cover Art 2013 Fawnheart

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      Table of Contents

      I'll Love Ya Forever, But...

      Doing Time

      Todd Nathaniel's Last Case

      Bonus Story - The Vision

      Author's Notes

      I'll Love Ya Forever, But...

      You know, it was a marriage they said would never last.

      Even I had my doubts. After all, I was a dancer—dancer, mind you, not a stripper--at the Pussy Cat A-Go-Go Club and he was this geeky post doc at his friend’s bachelor party. But I became a good professor’s wife. I hosted faculty teas and luncheons, kept the house spotless, made healthy meals, kept myself in shape and raised two beautiful boys—one now at MIT and the other at Cal Tech.

      Still, it’s supposed to be until death do you part. Death: the parting of the ways. This whole eternity thing—I never agreed to it.

      Faithful to a fault, that’s my Fred.

      And he wasn’t buried three days when he showed up at the back door covered in dirt, and his feet, well, he had no shoes on, just socks. Wet, muddy, slimy socks! He should have told me, put it in his will or something, to bury him in shoes. I would have done it—I can be unconventional. He should have warned me, but he was always the typical absent-minded professor.

      I was in such shock that I hadn’t the presence of mind to shut the door on him. So now he was on my freshly washed kitchen floor, with moldering leaves and what have you, and he grunts at me.

      Huh? I said, equally speechless. I kept that floor clean enough to eat off of and now look what he’d done.

      He grunted again. Prior to his demise my Fred was a well-spoken man, and he had this amazingly plummy voice for his lectures.

      Fred, honey, I don’t know what you’re saying. He opened his mouth a bit wider and a few white crawly things, slugs, maggots, I don’t know, fell out onto the floor. I shrieked and ran for the disinfectant and my cleaning gloves. While I was under the sink, trying to decide on straight ammonia or pine fresh, he shambled over. He was right there and tried to embrace me

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