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    My Father, The Popsicle [a short story]
    My Father, The Popsicle [a short story]
    My Father, The Popsicle [a short story]
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    My Father, The Popsicle [a short story]

    By Annie Reed

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    Jodi thought she was an orphan, right up until a lawyer contacts her out of the blue to ask what she intends to do about her father.

    It turns out Jodi's father had himself cryogenically frozen. Only now the company that's kept him on ice is going out of business, and everyone's turning to teenage Jodi to make decisions on behalf of a man she never met.

    Decisions that nothing in Jodi's life could have prepared her to make.

    "The appearance of a new Annie Reed story is a treat. Try one and you'll be hooked."
    - Dave Hendrickson, author of CRACKING THE ICE, forthcoming from WestSide Press

    Annie Reed is a prolific short story writer whose fiction has been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine as well as in numerous anthologies from Daw and Pocket Books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThunder Valley Press
    Release dateMar 21, 2011
    ISBN9781458164148
    My Father, The Popsicle [a short story]
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    Annie Reed

    Award-winning author and editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch calls Annie Reed “one of the best writers I’ve come across in years.”Annie’s won recognition for her stellar writing across multiple genres. Her story “The Color of Guilt” originally published in Fiction River: Hidden in Crime, was selected as one of The Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016. Her story “One Sun, No Waiting” was one of the first science fiction stories honored with a literary fellowship award by the Nevada Arts Foundation, and her novel PRETTY LITTLE HORSES was among the finalists in the Best First Private Eye Novel sponsored by St. Martin’s Press and the Private Eye Writers of America.A frequent contributor to the Fiction River anthologies and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Annie’s recent work includes the superhero origin novel FASTER, the near-future science fiction short novel IN DREAMS, and UNBROKEN FAMILIAR, a gritty urban fantasy mystery short novel. Annie’s also one of the founding members of the innovative Uncollected Anthology, a quarterly series of themed urban fantasy stories written by some of the best writers working today.Annie’s mystery novels include the Abby Maxon private investigator novels PRETTY LITTLE HORSES and PAPER BULLETS, the Jill Jordan mystery A DEATH IN CUMBERLAND, and the suspense novel SHADOW LIFE, written under the name Kris Sparks, as well as numerous other projects she can’t wait to get to. For more information about Annie, including news about upcoming bundles and publications, go to www.annie-reed.com.

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      My Father, The Popsicle [a short story] - Annie Reed

      My Father, The Popsicle

      Annie Reed

      Published by Thunder Valley Press

      Copyright 2011 by Annie Reed

      Cover art Copyright Thierry Maffeis at Dreamstime.com

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      My Father, The Popsicle

      Annie Reed

      Jodi thought she was an orphan until one sweltering Thursday night in late June when she received The Letter from Billingsly, Wendham & Owens, Attorneys at Law.

      That's how she always thought of it after that. The Letter. Wasn't that how you were supposed to think about things that changed your life? Capitalized and important?

      At first she thought the whole thing was a joke. She'd just worked a double shift at Hot Dog on a Stick in the new mall south of town. She was dead tired and sick of the smell of lemons, corn dog batter, and hot grease. Her head hurt from pulling up her hair under that stupid striped hat, her shoulders ached from all the fresh lemonade she had to mix, and to top it all off, the air conditioning had been out on the bus ride home. To say the bus had been fragrant was the understatement of the century. She was in no mood for jokes. Her roommate Harry had a pretty twisted sense of humor. A fake letter from an attorney was just his style, but tonight the joke wasn't funny.

      I ought to rip him a new one, Jodi muttered as she opened her front door. Hear that, Harry? she said to her empty apartment. "I

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