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    Oh, Crap! This Jock's Getting Married
    Oh, Crap! This Jock's Getting Married
    Oh, Crap! This Jock's Getting Married
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    Oh, Crap! This Jock's Getting Married

    By Wade Kelly

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    The beloved JOCK series started in 2012 with My Roommate's a Jock? Well, Crap! and will continue in the winter of 2015 when No! Jocks Don't Date Guys is published with Dreamspinner Press. But what about the THREE YEARS in between? Fear not, this JOCK SHORT is a collection of four chapters, written to fill in the gaps. So grab your tissues and pull up a chair, and prepare yourself to find out what Cole, Ellis, Rob, and Russell, from JOCK 1, got into before JOCK 2 comes out.

    Chapters include: Graduation, In The Meantime, He Said, "I Do.", and Where Do We Go From Here?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWade Kelly
    Release dateOct 27, 2015
    ISBN9780986361029
    Oh, Crap! This Jock's Getting Married
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    Wade Kelly

    Wade Kelly lives and writes in conservative, small-town America on the east coast where it’s not easy to live free and open in one's beliefs. Wade writes passionately about controversial issues and strives to make a difference by making people think. Wade does not have a background in writing or philosophy, but still draws from personal experience to ponder contentious subjects on paper. There is a lot of pain in the world and people need hope. When not writing, she is thinking about writing, and more than likely scribbling ideas on sticky notes in the car while playing "taxi driver" for her three children. She likes snakes, can’t spell, and has a tendency to make people cry.

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    • 4/5
      In an excellent follow-up to the first book in this series, ‘Oh Crap! This Jock’s Getting Married’ offers glimpses into Cole, Ellis, Rob, and Russel’s lives during the three years following the events in volume one. I loved visiting with each of them and enjoyed their stories a lot! Recommended for everyone who read ‘My New Roommate is a Jock? Well, Crap!’ and wanted more.

      ‘Graduation’ is narrated by Rob and is a brief look at the watershed that separates being at college and protected by all his friends and “the time afterward” when everyone goes their own way. He had expected to see Ellis and Cole leave, since they had discussed their plan. But when Russell, Rob’s lifelong friend, announces his plans, Rob is rocked to the core.

      ‘In the Meantime’ is about Ellis’s experience as a student teacher. It’s Christmas, so half his one-year contract is already up, and this story is about him and Cle dealing with the changes of Ellis working, and Cole still not having found a job.

      ‘He Said “I do”’ is again told by Ellis, and focuses on Ellis and Cole’s much-awaited wedding a year after they graduated. All I can say is that it is glorious, and funny and so typical of Ellis and Cole’s relationship and who they have become.

      ‘Where Do We Go From Here’ is a contribution from Cole, and I loved hearing his entertainingly sarcastic voice again. I am always amazed at how pessimistic he sounds even in the face of the best news possible. Imagine my surprise when the ending t this vignette is rather more positive than I expected. Marvelous!

      If you like Cole and Ellis and all their friends, if you want to know what’s going on in their lives, and if you’re looking for an entertaining read, then you will probably like these four short snippets from the “JOCK” universe.


      NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review.

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    Oh, Crap! This Jock's Getting Married - Wade Kelly

    Dedications

    ––––––––

    For my readers, who continue to support me with encouragement, love, and praise: I need you, I thank you, and I could not go on without you.

    For Mandy, I apologize ahead of time because you’re going to virtually slap me after you read this.

    *Originally written as a gift for fans at GRL 2015, this free short is now available online. Thrown together for all those wonderful readers attending GRL 2015 in San Diego, this last-minute manuscript may contain grammatical errors. Wade Kelly apologizes. This was purely the author’s idea and attempt to bring you all something fun.

    Published by Wade Kelly Books

    http://www.writerwadekelly.com

    This story is a work of fiction from the author’s imagination. Names, characters, and incidents either are fictionalized, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Although Westminster is a real town, all family situations, interactions, and implied outcomes are not real events.

    Oh, Crap! This Jock’s Getting Married © 2015 Wade Kelly.

    Cover provided by Dreamspinner Press

    All rights reserved. This book is licensed to the original purchaser only. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of Wade Kelly and Dreamspinner Press. Duplication or distribution via any means is illegal and a violation of international copyright law, subject to criminal prosecution and upon conviction, fines, and/or imprisonment.

    First Edition October 2015

    ISBN: 978-0-9863610-2-9

    Chapter 1

    Graduation

    (Rob McAvoy)

    I’ve never felt more excited in my whole life. Graduation! It’s what every college kid dreams of and fears at the same time. Why? Because it symbolizes the first day of the rest of our lives. College life to me was a state of limbo. It was a four-year version of purgatory whereby young adults are thrown into a vat, churned around until their egotism transforms into humility, and dumped back out into a world where the skills they’ve learned don’t really apply. It fries some and matures others.

    Personally, I went into college rather mature, so all I think it did was refine what was already there. I have a good sense of my skills, a realistic view of where life is taking me, and a strong relationship with my friends and family. I can’t wait for tomorrow.

    Oh, Robin, look at you, my mom said from the doorway.

    I stood in front of her vanity straightening my tie when she’d come up to find me. She knew I preferred the shortened version Rob over my given name Robin, but on the many times I had corrected her in the past she’d never successfully retained the information. She’d go with Rob for about a day, and then it was back to Robin. Today, I just didn’t feel like bothering.

    I smiled at her through the mirror and then turned around. You don’t think a bowtie is too much, do you? I don’t want to look like Orville Redenbacher walking across the stage.

    Oh nonsense, she said. You look as handsome as your father did at his retirement party.

    I slouched and let out a tiny whine. Mom, I don’t want to look like I’m retiring.

    Don’t be ridiculous. She turned me around and smoothed my shirt across the back of my shoulder several times. Is Russell picking you up or are you riding over to the college with us? Mom spun me back around and tugged my tie to the left.

    Russell’s picking me up. He wanted to talk on the way.

    The college isn’t far from the hotel, Rob. I can’t imagine he’ll have enough time to say anything important. Besides, you two talk all the time.

    Russ can say a lot in a short amount of time of he gets going. We might talk every day, but mostly it’s about classwork. The class is over. Today is the first day of the next phase in our lives.

    Speaking of, did Russell tell you what he’s doing after graduation? I know Ellis has the student teaching job lined up and you’ll be heading to Missouri for graduate studies, but you haven’t mentioned Russell.

    He hasn’t said. I hadn’t thought about it until my mom brought it up, but Russell hadn’t spoken one iota about his plans after today. We were graduating. Ellis and I were parting ways for a time, but I had no clue about Russell. I guess I had assumed he’d follow me to Missouri, but I didn’t know from where that notion surfaced. Russell and I had been inseparable for too many years to count, and now I faced the possibility he’d get left behind. Why hadn’t we spoken about it?

    Mom reapplied her lipstick, and then said, Too bad Mike Foster isn’t graduating with you boys.

    I rolled my eyes. Mom, he’s a sociopath. Mike’s one cremated relative away from becoming the next Arthur Mitchell.

    "I don’t know who that is, Rob. It is another one of

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