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    Leena and the Giant
    Leena and the Giant
    Leena and the Giant
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    Leena and the Giant

    By Aubrey Fredrickson

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    When Leena shows up to the not-at-all-official town meeting organized by her mother to discuss the recent events that have turned New Elphame on its head, she isn't thinking about magical doors or strange happenings. All she can think about is how for one night she wants to be a normal teenage girl—possibly one who gets kissed by her hunky football star boyfriend. As she stares at her reflection in a broken mirror, she decides that she can be someone different. But Leena has no idea what surprises the night will hold for her. Will she get her first kiss? Will someone dare to cross through the mysterious door to discover what really lays beyond? And what secrets lie with the gruesome Giant in the town pub?

    The second installment in the "Tales from Seelie High" series of short stories continues the adventure began by Kira Nichols in "New Girl." It also includes three shorter tales involving characters from New Elphame and the world beyond the door: two short scenes that depict what happened when the door was opened in "New Girl" and an interview with Leena, conducted by a Seelie High student reporter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAubrey Fredrickson
    Release dateMay 8, 2015
    ISBN9781310557316
    Leena and the Giant
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    Aubrey Fredrickson

    Aubrey Fredrickson lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with a landlubbing pirate, an amateur train enthusiast, and a baby who may possibly be a piranha in disguise. She is a full time stay-at-home mom, a part-time freelance writer, and an in-between-time crafter of stories. Sophie and the Flash Mob Santa was her first self-published book. She is now working on the "Tales from Seelie High," a collection of short stories which she will be publishing individually.

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      Leena and the Giant - Aubrey Fredrickson

      Leena and the Giant

      Tales from Seelie High #2

      by Aubrey Fredrickson

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 by Aubrey Fredrickson

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this ebook. This book remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoy this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favorite authorized retailer. Thank you for your support.

      Table of Contents

      Story

      Leena and the Giant

      Bonus Material

      The Door Opens – New Elphame

      The Door Opens – The Otherworld

      Interview with Leena

      New Boy: The Next Story

      Information

      About the Author

      About Tales from Seelie High

      Connect with the Author

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      Leena and the Giant

      September 5, 2014

      Leena bent over the chipped porcelain sink and applied a generous layer of lip gloss. The only mirror in the pub’s one stall bathroom was cracked down the center and so the face that stared back at her was split down the middle, as if she were two separate people. Part of her was saying that she should wash off the makeup and go sit with her mother, be the dutiful daughter that she had always been. But another part said that tonight she wanted to be someone else. Just for this one night, she wanted to be something more than dutiful.

      Beautiful, for one thing. She wanted to be beautiful so that when Barry saw her he would...what? Want to kiss her, maybe? She blushed at the thought, but knew that it was true. She was sixteen and had never been kissed. Tonight she wanted to be the girl who got kissed.

      And she wanted to be more like Caitlin, she decided.

      Maybe she already was. Staring into the broken mirror, she found herself believing, for the first time in a very long time, that she and Caitlin were actually identical twins. Caitlin had always been so effortlessly beautiful, so smooth and put together. Leena was…well, frizzy. Not just her reddish blond hair, but all over. Everything about her, from her freckles to her incurable tendency to say the wrong thing, was the opposite of her sophisticated twin.

      But not tonight. Tonight she was beautiful. Now that she was starting to calm down, she could even admit that borrowing some of Caitlin’s clothes—a long flowing cream skirt and a tight fitting green top that matched her eyes perfectly—had been a good idea. Tonight she would be someone different. The two halves of her reflection nodded in agreement.

      As she walked out into the crowded pub, Leena’s confidence began to falter again. She had never felt comfortable in the Giant’s Head. Of course, as a minor, she wasn’t really supposed to be there. Mr. Shanachie was very strict about that. There was a diner on the other side of the building and kids were allowed in there, but the pub itself was strictly for adults.

      Except for when her mother called one of these little town meetings and even then Leena was usually the only kid who ever came. Caitlin had been a few times, but usually it was just Leena. For some reason her mother insisted on bringing her every time. Mr. Shanachie, who owned the pub, frowned and tugged at his mustache, but he never kicked Leena out.

      Tonight he was probably going to pull his mustache out altogether because her mother had told everyone to bring their kids—at least the ones who went to Seelie High. Everywhere she looked, Leena saw kids from school.

      Caitlin! Jasmine, her sister’s best friend, was plowing her way through the crowd toward her. As Jasmine got closer, her eyes widened in surprise. Leena? Oh, wow! I’m sorry, but you look just like Caitlin tonight! Jasmine said, yelling the words as she tried to be heard over the noise of the crowded pub.

      Leena couldn’t remember the last time someone had mistaken her for Caitlin. It had taken quite a lot of makeup, a long struggle with the curling iron, and the borrowed clothes, of course, to accomplish the miracle

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