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    Three Southern Short Stories
    Three Southern Short Stories
    Three Southern Short Stories
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    Three Southern Short Stories

    By Karen Cunningham

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    Three Southern Short Stories-- a blend of humor, mystery and self sacrifice, from a uniquely Southern perspective.
    Medium Gold-A spirit medium has her vacation sidetracked by the mischievous ghost of a Confederate officer who wants her help to find the gold he buried at the end of The War.
    The Murder Code-A teenage boy inherits his grandfather’s shortwave radio, and stumbles across a coded message about his murder.
    Hope Deferred Maketh the Heart Sick- A new life beckons to Millie, but she turns away to take care of her abusive ex husband because she thinks it’s the right thing to do.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKaren Cunningham
    Release dateFeb 25, 2013
    ISBN9781301891214
    Three Southern Short Stories
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    Karen Cunningham

    After listening to stories swirl around in her head for years, Karen Cunningham attended Murder in the Magic City Mystery Conference, in Birmingham, Alabama, and decided to start writing them down. She joined Sisters in Crime and soon became a member of the Southern Sisters writing critique group. She has also attended the North Carolina Writers Workshop and Killer Nashville Writers Conference. Karen has been an active part of Celtic culture since 1982. She taught Scottish dance for many years, earning a Full Certificate from The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1997 she also started teaching Irish Step Dance and co-founded the Birmingham School of Celtic Arts in 1998, where she acted as instructor and choreographer. Karen has also played the Irish drum in two regional Irish bands and is a regular at the local Celtic music sessions, where she mostly plays drum, but fiddles around on the easy tunes. Karen and her husband, Rick, currently live in Hoover, Alabama, where she drives a school bus full of middle school students to and from school every day.

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      Three Southern Short Stories - Karen Cunningham

      Three Southern Short Stories

      By

      Karen Cunningham

      Copyright 2013 Karen Cunningham

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook 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 recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return toSmashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Cover photo taken by Rick Cunningham, Eufaula, Alabama, circa 1982.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I’d like to thank my wonderful husband, Rick Cunningham, for all the loving support he’s given me. Whenever I hit a road block, he’s always willing to do what he can to move it. His collection of Southern themed photos supplied the cover for this book.

      Thanks, also to my mom and dad for teaching me I can do and be anything I want.

      Table of Contents

      MEDIUM GOLD

      THE MURDER CODE

      HOPE DEFERRED MAKETH THE HEART SICK

      MEDIUM GOLD

      The antique store on the roadside south of Montgomery looked like an intriguing place to stop. Jessie had been driving for three hours on her way to a long awaited vacation in Gulf Shores. Besides, she never knew what she would find in antique stores and something about this one called her to stop. Gravel crunched under the tires as she drove up to the door of the old house. Rolling pastures lined both sides of the road.

      The shopkeeper was a local man in his early thirties. Look around all you want, ma’am. I’ll be right here if you have any questions.

      Jessie thanked him and wandered around, eventually climbing the creaky stairs to the second floor. She wasn’t up there more than a minute when she saw a bearded, dark-haired man in a Confederate uniform watching her from a shadowy corner. He approached her warily, piercing blue eyes never leaving her face. His gray uniform had brass buttons and wide epaulets on the shoulders. The sword at his side announced him as an officer of the Confederacy. In his right hand he held a cavalry officer’s felt hat.

      Putting the hat over his heart, he said, Excuse me, ma’am. I’m of a mind that you’re the lady I’ve been waiting for.

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