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    Jack's Taboo
    Jack's Taboo
    Jack's Taboo
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    Jack's Taboo

    By Paul J. Gorzkowski

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    The Pruitt family finds out the truth behind the wild ancestry of their beloved family pet during a vacation in the Colorado mountains.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul J. Gorzkowski
    Release dateNov 6, 2009
    ISBN9781458017314
    Jack's Taboo
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    Paul J. Gorzkowski

    I am a writer of children's and adult novels, screenplays and song lyrics. I am a proud father of two sons and a husband of 19 years.I was born in New Jersey and raised in North Carolina.I love family time, gaming, hiking, swimming, long walks and long talks. I am a giver by day and a writer by night.Everything else you want to know about me? Please visit my MySpace profile and/or follow me on Twitter.

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      Jack's Taboo - Paul J. Gorzkowski

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      ~Jack’s Taboo~

      Jack's Taboo

      By:

      Paul J. Gorzkowski

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright: Paul J. Gorzkowski 2009

      Chapter One

      The Pruitt family, Mark, Diane, and their two children, Dennis and Hallie, live in a two-story house with yellow siding and a two-car garage. A white picket fence adorns the front yard leading to a chain-linked fence lining the back yard at 122 Pruitt Drive in a suburban neighborhood in upstate New York.

      Pruitt Drive, was named after Mark’s great uncle, Harris Pruitt, who was elected the first mayor of the city in the early 1940’s.

      Mark is a lawyer at his family law firm that was passed down from generations of the Pruitt family. Straight out of college, he joined his older brother, Jefferson and long time family friend, Harvey Maze at Pruitt, Pruitt and Maze Attorneys at Law.

      Diane Pruitt, now a full time homemaker, met Mark after she began working for the law firm as the office manager.

      Dennis Mark Pruitt is the younger of the two children. His older sister, Hallie Marie Pruitt, who is four years older than Dennis, hated the idea of becoming an older sister, when Mark and Diane first brought home the new addition to the Pruitt family from the hospital.

      As the years went by in the Pruitt house, Diane and Mark began to see the distance that had grown in the relationship between Hallie and Dennis. Hallie began to feel distant from everyone else. Alone, unloved and unwanted, she became more angered at those who showed more attention to the new baby of the family and less attention to her.

      Hallie would do everything in her power to make Dennis cry. She would take his toys away from him while he would be in the crib playing quietly. She would push him down on the floor when he was just learning how to walk. Whenever she would be left alone in a room with Dennis, she would pick on him by pinching him and hitting him.

      Through the years, Mark and Diane did not know what to do to make Hallie feel better about having a younger sibling.

      One summer day when Hallie was eleven years old, Mark brought home a puppy that he had gotten from a client he had done work for through the years. The client, Maxwell Tenner and his wife, Vera, owned a cottage deep in the mountains of Colorado where they vacationed often.

      Hallie was in her room listening to the radio. Dennis was sitting on the floor in the living room watching one of his favorite cartoons called Jack and Tippin. A cartoon about Tippin the cat and Jack the dog who were regular household pets during the day and were secretly a team of crime fighters at night.

      Dennis watched his dad walk in the front door one evening after work. He noticed something strange with his dad as he had a moving object in his button closed dress coat. Dennis watched his dad close the front door behind him, carrying his briefcase in one hand and the other hand holding tightly to a large moving bulge in his coat. As Mark walked by the table near the front door entrance, he laid his briefcase down and instantly used the free hand to join the other one holding even tighter to the now anxious moving object in his jacket. As he knelt down on one knee in front of Dennis, Mark asked Dennis to close his eyes and hold out his arms.

      Diane walked into the living room from the kitchen and Mark looked towards the staircase adjacent to the front door as Hallie took her last step to the bottom of the staircase and leaned against the frame of the threshold separating the living room from the hallway and crossed her arms in disgust.

      Mark looked back at Dennis as he slowly unbuttoned his jacket and told Dennis to once again close his eyes and hold out his arms.

      After Dennis complied with his dad’s request, he suddenly felt a furry heavy weight in his arms and wet licks on his face.

      As Dennis opened his eyes, Hallie turned around and made a dash for the staircase behind her with very fast steps up to her bedroom, as complete silence filled the living room until they heard her bedroom door slam shut.

      Hallie! Mark yelled out. He belongs to the family!

      Dennis began to feel sad as he knew Hallie was not as excited as he was at that moment about the furry fellow that they had received. Dennis didn’t hold the frown long when he had taken a better look at this unusually large but beautiful white and gray ball of fur as it kept on licking his face and nose. We got a puppy Hallie!Yelled Dennis as he put the dog on the floor and began to pet its head. What’s his name Dad? He continued to ask.That’s up to you and your sister Dennis, replied Mark as he stood up to give Diane a kiss hello, who was standing behind him watching as Dennis was hugging and kissing the pup on its head.

      Maxwell and Vera just got back from vacation in the mountains of Colorado and he said this puppy was running loose in the yard of their cabin that they own, said Mark. He didn’t want to leave it there and he said he couldn’t take care of it, so he brought it home and asked me if I wanted him.

      Daddy, he’s kind of big to be just a puppy isn’t he? Dennis said, looking up at Mark.

      Yes son. He does have awfully large paws and head to be just a puppy, but maybe he is just some strange breed of dog that wandered out of someone’s yard and found itself lost. I don’t care! Dennis exclaimed with excitement while hugging the dog around its neck. I’m going to love him anyway!

      Well now, we have one happy as can be child sitting there with a strange looking dog and one upset little girl upstairs probably crying her eyes out Mark, Diane whispered to keep from Dennis hearing in on their conversation. I’m going to go talk to her. Dinner will be done in a few minutes, continued Diane as she began to take her first step on the staircase to go up to Hallie’s room.

      As Mark sat on the floor beside Dennis to play with the new member of the family, he heard as Diane opened and closed a door at the top of the staircase.

      So, what are you going to name him Dennis? asked Mark as he picked the dog up and looked into its eyes. Well, said Dennis. He has one blue eye and one gray eye just like Jack does on the Jack and Tippin cartoon. So I am going to name him Jack! Jack Pruitt! Dennis continued as he pet Jack’s head while the pup laid in Mark’s lap. Good! said Mark while looking into Jack’s eyes. "We shall name you Jack Pruitt.

      Chapter Two

      Four years later, as the sun began to rise early one Saturday morning, its glare shined through the foggy window pain, draping the colorful carpeting across the floor. It slowly moved towards the foot of the bed as Dennis began to hear the laughter of children playing outside his bedroom window.

      As the beam of light reached the top cover at the foot of the bed where Jack laid, Jack became awakened by the sudden blinding bright light in his eyes and jumped off in search for a

      darker sunless spot of floor beside the bed, near the end table where Dennis kept his bifocals and alarm clock.

      Jack laid his snout on the bed facing the lump under the covers containing Dennis’ head covered by a semi-thin blanket that Dennis was using to cover the bright sunlight from his eyes. As he began to moan and yawn with his nose still propped on the edge of the bed near Dennis’ head, Jack began to take large huff like breaths as if he was trying deliberately to get his attention.

      As the sounds of children got louder and louder in Dennis’ ears, he now started to feel the breaths of Jack blowing under the cracks of the blanket where it not quite met the mattress. Go back to sleep boy, said Dennis as he slid deeper into the warm blankets. Jack let out one more moan before sliding his head off the side of the bed and strolling toward the closed bedroom door.

      Suddenly the sounds of children playing got louder and louder as though they were right

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