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    Nancy Werlock's Diary: Dear Diary,
    Nancy Werlock's Diary: Dear Diary,
    Nancy Werlock's Diary: Dear Diary,
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    Nancy Werlock's Diary: Dear Diary,

    By Julie Ann Dawson

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    Marriage counselor Nancy Werlock didn't want to take over the family business. Unfortunately for her fate, and a bunch of conniving but well-meaning spirits, have other plans. Now Nancy finds herself fumbling through exorcisms and sorting applications for a new apprentice. Because for Werlock women, the family business is demonology. And at the Three Wishes Boutique, the customer may not always be right, but he may very well be possessed.

    This is a collection of three short stories written in diary format (Approx. word count 9800):

    Dear Diary,: Upon learning of her mother's sudden death, Nancy decides to convert one of the last gifts her mother gave her into a personal journal.

    Homecoming: While sorting through her mother's business records, a desperate customer asks Nancy to help her banish evil spirits from her home. But when Nancy realizes what is really causing the haunting, she'll need to use a different type of magic to set things right.

    The Apprentice: After a close call with a brutish drunk driver, Nancy finds herself the focus of a handsome young man who seems to have accidentally manifested psychic powers. Can she help him learn to control his powers and keep her hands off of him at the same time?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBards and Sages Publishing
    Release dateSep 5, 2013
    ISBN9781301842506
    Nancy Werlock's Diary: Dear Diary,
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    Julie Ann Dawson

    Julie Ann Dawson is an author, editor, publisher, RPG designer, and advocate for writers who may occasionally require the services of someone with access to Force Lightning (and in case it was not obvious, a bit of a geek). Her work has appeared in a variety of print and digital media, including such diverse publications as the New Jersey Review of Literature, Lucidity, Black Bough, Poetry Magazine, Gareth Blackmore’s Unusual Tales, Demonground, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. In 2002 she started her own publishing company, Bards and Sages. The company has gone from having two titles to over one hundred titles between their print and digital products. In 2009, she launched the Bards and Sages Quarterly, a literary journal of speculative fiction. Since 2012, she has served as a judge for the IBPA's Benjamin Franklin Awards.

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      Nancy Werlock's Diary - Julie Ann Dawson

      Nancy Werlock’s Diary:

      Dear Diary,

      By Julie Ann Dawson

      ©2012 Julie Ann Dawson

      Smashwords Edition

      Bards and Sages Publishing

      Bellmawr, NJ

      www.bardsandsages.com

      Three Nancy Werlock short stories

      Dear Diary,

      Homecoming

      The Apprentice

      These stories are works of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living, dead, or undead is coincidental and vaguely disturbing.

      License Agreement:

      This digital product is licensed for the enjoyment of the original purchaser. Please do not engage in file-sharing or illegal duplication. While we do not rely on DRM, we do employ DAP (Digital Arcane Protection). Illegal file sharing may result in gremlins or other mystical creatures overtaking your computer or ereader. Such infestations would be considered acts of gods and most likely not covered by your warranty.

      We thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

      Cover image courtesy freestockimages.com

      Dear Diary,

      Dear Diary,

      Dear Journal,

      Oh, screw it.

      Now I know why my clients look at me stupid when I suggest that they keep a journal of their thoughts. It’s therapeutic! It will help you resolve inner conflicts and conflicts with others without negative confrontation! It will help you reduce stress!

      It’s ridiculous. I feel like I’m twelve.

      Stop it, Nancy. You know better.

      Mom gave me this journal two years ago as a Winter Solstice gift. One of her not-so-subtle hints regarding her disapproval about my career choice. It has this beautiful forest green goat leather cover with hand-sewn binding and a gold foil pentagram on the cover. It’s a bit over-the-top for your average diary, but it would have made a gorgeous grimoire.

      Which was, of course, Mom’s point.

      This thing has been sitting on my bookshelf since she gave it to me, right between my old Apprentice grimoire and Introduction to Behavior Sciences. That monster is almost five inches thick and cost me $60, used! The damn school bookstore was only going to give me a $10 trade-in for the thing when the semester was over. College textbooks are such a rip-off.

      See, this is why I will suck at keeping a journal. I get off on tangents about unrelated stuff.

      Not like anyone is ever going to read this thing, right?

      Mom’s dead. My mother is dead and I’m complaining about an overpriced college textbook from ten years ago.

      What am I doing? I just ruined this grimoire journal. Just burned a page on nonsense and now it’s ruined. I guess now I have no excuse not to keep a journal, right? It’s keep a journal or admit I destroyed one of my mother’s gifts to me for no good reason.

      I’ll come back to this later. I have to call my brother and make funeral arrangements.

      Homecoming

      April 16th

      Ms. Warlock?

      "It’s Werlock," I correct without looking up from the pile of paperwork on the counter. I thought I had locked the front door behind me when I came in. And even if it wasn’t

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