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    Guppy Soup
    Guppy Soup
    Guppy Soup
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    Guppy Soup

    By JT Therrien

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    The stories in Guppy Soup explore human nature and how we sometimes simply don't live up to our potential. Guppy Soup reveals us as who we (oftentimes) are: impatient, petty, jealous, flawed creatures who have knee-jerk reactions to the world of appearances; people who fall too far short of achieving a charitable outlook on life and on others to be considered good.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJT Therrien
    Release dateSep 8, 2013
    ISBN9780921473060
    Guppy Soup
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    JT Therrien

    Fine Form Press is a boutique publisher committed to working with a limited number of authors such as JT Therrien. We publish some of JT's novellas and novels in a variety of genres, including: commercial; YA; paranormal; romances; and, love stories. Along with JT's art-themed and cancer-themed fiction, Fine Form Press also publishes some of his inspirational, Catholic-themed, fiction.

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      Guppy Soup - JT Therrien

      FINE FORM PRESS

      Guppy Soup

      ISBN 978-0-921473-06-0

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Copyright 2013 JT Therrien

      Cover Art Copyright 2013 by Fine Form Press

      Smashwords Edition

      This book may not be reproduced or used in whole or in part by any existing means.

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. The characters are products of the author's imagination and are used fictitiously.

      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 purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of this author.

      Acknowledgements

      Special thanks:

      Guppy photo by Alice Chaos. Used with permission.

      Guppy Soup cover designed for Fine Form Press by Matthew Therrien.

      Blurb

      The stories in Guppy Soup explore human nature and how we sometimes simply don't live up to our potential. Guppy Soup reveals us as who we (oftentimes) are: impatient, petty, jealous, flawed creatures who have knee-jerk reactions to the world of appearances; people who fall too far short of achieving a charitable outlook on life and on others to be considered good.

      THE WELL - REVIEWS

      The Well is a story that I consider to be exceptional... a masterfully crafted story that poignantly portrayed for me the resilient nature of the human spirit… --Doreen Cox, 5 stars Amazon.com review

      The Well is a gripping novel about human suffering and love. --Father Juan Velez, O.D., 5 stars Amazon.com review

      I think this is a great story and I wanted to keep reading... I especially enjoyed how something so simple, like falling in well, can become the center focus when there are so many other bigger, awful things happening around... --Alicia

      This is a great story! I highly recommend it for all readers... --Faye Hollidaye, 5 stars Smashwords review

      This is a very touching story. I hated to see it end. --Danny Dean, 5 Stars, Smashwords review

      Table of Contents

      Wanda's Appointment

      Masks

      Legend

      Zip: A Cautionary Tale

      Guppy Soup

      The Power of Words

      If Dali Showed Up

      Summertime

      The Well Preview

      The Betrothal Preview

      Wanda's Appointment

      The butcher paper Wanda sat on crinkled loudly whenever she moved. She hated that dry bone-rubbing-on-bone noise. Besides, it scratched. Thirty-two years old and this is where life had brought her. She took inventory of her small social circle: one of her friends, Lemona, practiced real estate law; another friend, Gary, was an intern at GenMed hospital; and Danee, from Wanda's knitting circle, worked in a public library.

      All of them ambitious, all had career aspirations. But not Wanda. No, not Wanda. She was a human meat patty. Her buttocks grew cold and chafed since the lime green hospital gown only covered the front part of her body. She felt the air conditioning fan in the ceiling hum to life and she slouched self-consciously as it spewed cold air down her back. Wanda stared at her flower-print panties—delicately frumpled on top of her bra and folded Capris—sitting on the lone plastic chair in the examination room. Her pink blouse lay across the chair's back, ready for a quick escape back into the real world after the doctor's probing examination.

      And where was Dr. Kaley, she wondered, suppressing a shiver. She still had a lot to get done today: laundry, lunch (if there was time), a quick nap, and then out the door for the afternoon shift at, irony of ironies, Burger King, where she would flip burger patties until midnight. As Wanda considered whether she had enough detergent to do two loads of wash, the intercom crackled, the lightning sound startling her, disintegrating her thoughts between the load of whites and the load of colors.

      As if she could induce clarity of understanding with her eyes, she squinted at the metal box embedded in the wall. The electronic static fizzed and popped under her gaze. A woman's faint voice crizzled, No. We can't do that. It's inoperable…

      Pardon? Wanda asked. Even though she was alone in the room, her singularity confirmed with a quick glance over her shoulder, she wasn't sure that she'd been meant to overhear the comment.

      Hello? Pardon? Are you talking to me? Wanda addressed the speaker box.

      The charged silence filled the room, pushing all the air out. She finally stood up, carefully approached the speaker as if it were a wild animal, examining it but finding no buttons to press. It certainly didn't look as if it was designed for two-way communication.

      Hey! Wanda called out again, her face pressed close to the grille. Unless this was a clever disguised tin can and rope contraption, she didn't think the woman at the other end could hear her.

      Two minutes later, Wanda sat once again on the examining table, beginning to doubt that anyone had spoken. Had she experienced an auditory hallucination? She'd never had one before, but. She mentally went through her medicine cabinet and the drug label warnings: Estrogen, progestogen, anti-androgen pills. Side effects… And should she mention the event—or the non-event—to Dr. Kaley?

      As she debated on a proper course of action that wouldn't cast any aspersions on her sanity, the intercom cackled to life again. Wanda jumped to her feet when the fluorescent lights above her head frizzed, as if the static was somehow causing the electrical interference. She certainly didn't want to be under the fluorescent tube if it shattered.

      I give…aybe two weeks…en days. Tops. Wanda thought she recognized the woman's voice as the same one who had spoken earlier. It sounded a bit like her long-deceased mother's cancer-damaged vocal chords, which made Wanda doubt the authenticity of the experience. Still, the tiny hairs on her arms stood on end.

      Ow! A sharp pinch of her arm confirmed she wasn't dreaming.

      Excuse me? Wanda tapped the speaker box with an index finger. Hello? She moved her mouth closer to the cracked grille and became aware of the thin layer of grime covering it. She spotted lipstick smears and briefly wondered whose lips had previously touched the metal, and why.

      Ten days, tops! Is that what the disembodied voice had announced? This was getting too freaky for nine-fifteen in the morning. And where was Dr. Kaley? Why wasn't he here, with the results of her blood tests? She knew her T4s had bottomed out since she'd finished the radiation therapy. That's why she was being monitored in the first place, and why the hormone replacement therapy had been suspended, just two months before the operation that would eventually make her a complete woman. Was it back? Would she need more

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