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    At My Fingertips
    At My Fingertips
    At My Fingertips
    Ebook41 pages36 minutes

    At My Fingertips

    By Ruth Pettite

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    As you become the character, witness real life encounters filled with humor and mild satire as your dreams disappear and nightmares come true. The world is turned upside down as out loving character meets and greets with people that she has never met, bringing her once known life to a screeching halt.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRuth Pettite
    Release dateApr 26, 2011
    ISBN9781458145840
    At My Fingertips
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    Ruth Pettite

    Ruth has been writing for over 15 years. Her works have been featured on Lulu Poetry and on Blogspot. As an author, Ruth went through rigorous events that pushed further into the art, including many years of thinking she would never make it. Her first short story collection, "Random Thoughts," has been collaborated over the past year. Selling on www.wordclay.com, Ruth has put together several humorous and sad stories Starting off with a few short words and a dare, Ruth developed the knack for putting together short stories with memorable characters, real life situations, and work that will make you smile when you are done. Ruth lives in Nevada, where she has obtained her degree in Business Management. With her domestic partner and five boys, Ruth makes sure to find the time to keep the pen rolling and the pages turning.

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      At My Fingertips - Ruth Pettite

      At My Fingertips

      By Ruth Pettite

      A Smashwords Publication

      Copyright 2010 by Ruth Pettite

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes:

      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 to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Chapter One

      I never saw a sunrise as dim as was the morning that everything began to run downhill for me. I wanted to reach out and twist it like a bulb, see if I could get more wattage out of it. But the sun was dreary, and I knew in my gut there was nowhere to turn for a brighter side of the day.

      When the alarm clock rang that morning, I wanted to just roll over and pretend it didn’t exist. My green eyes were not ready for the light of the day, and my blonde hair in its tatters said it was going to take more than a simple brushing for it to cooperate. But there it was regardless, and like my body knew what I thought, I rolled away from the alarm and was soon sound asleep.

      My body had an internal alarm clock though. I shot out of bed realizing the time. I pulled back the curtain to see the dim bulb rising in the east. Shit, I mumbled as my feet tried to find solid grounding. Stumbling, I made it to the bathroom and attempted to do something with the bird’s nest on top of my head. Finally finishing the fight, I threw it up on the back of my head. Messy but classy. I dabbed on some eyeliner, slapped my cheeks a few times, and rushed into some clothes for work.

      I remembered why I had been so tired that morning. The baby had gotten up at four. He was ready to play and watch TV and had to go potty. It took an hour of negotiations with the almost three year old to get him to go back to sleep. When I had, it was almost time for the alarm to start going off anyway. I should’ve stayed up. That’s all there is to it.

      But it didn’t matter now. I was late for work, and that’s what mattered. Exhausted, strung out, and late for work. I wanted so bad just to curl back in bed, but I had got rid of my sick days the month before. Fidgeting with the keys was normally a simple task to get the engine running in my van. That day though, it seemed like an awful task to ever happen to a person.

      At the office, the other staff members were bustling about

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