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    Upsie-Daisy: The Adventures Of Lee And Bucky
    Upsie-Daisy: The Adventures Of Lee And Bucky
    Upsie-Daisy: The Adventures Of Lee And Bucky
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    Upsie-Daisy: The Adventures Of Lee And Bucky

    By Jane Lebak

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    Auto mechanic Lee Singer considers New York City her personal playground, with lots of big engines and complicated tools and today a car that got towed in because those "severe tire damage" signs mean what they say. It only adds to the fun when she pops the trunk and finds it full of styrofoam heads. 

    It turns out the client isn’t a madman with a decapitation fetish. Instead he’s a marine roboticist, and if you send foam objects down to the ocean floor, they shrink under the pressure. Wait, he builds robots? And he’s hot? This requires definitive action. 

    A little verbal sparring ensures that not only is he going to take Lee to dinner, but if their date goes well he might just show her his hydraulic manipulator arm. (That’s not a euphemism, by the way. His team actually has a submarine in a warehouse near the West Side Highway.) 

    This Lee and Bucky novelette takes place about four months before the first full-length novel, so whether you’re new to the series or just teetering on the edge of a great fiction discovery, you’ll have a great time. 

    Jane Lebak is a novelist and humor writer who pays someone else to change her oil and has never made a shrunken head. This story is also included in the anthology Where The Light May Lead.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilangelus Press
    Release dateMar 29, 2017
    ISBN9781942133223
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      Upsie-Daisy - Jane Lebak

      Upsie-Daisy

      A Lee and Bucky Adventure

      By Jane Lebak

      ––––––––

      Auto mechanic Lee Singer considers New York City her personal playground, with lots of big engines and complicated tools and today a car that got towed in because those severe tire damage signs mean what they say. It only adds to the fun when she pops the trunk and finds it full of styrofoam heads. 

      It turns out the client isn’t a madman with a decapitation fetish. Instead he’s a marine roboticist, and if you send foam objects down to the ocean floor, they shrink under the pressure. Wait, he builds robots? And he’s hot? This requires definitive action. 

      A little verbal sparring ensures that not only is he going to take Lee to dinner, but if their date goes well he might just show her his hydraulic manipulator arm. (That’s not a euphemism, by the way. His team actually has a submarine in a warehouse near the West Side Highway.) 

      This Lee and Bucky novelette takes place about four months before the first full-length novel, so whether you’re new to the series or just teetering on the edge of a great fiction discovery, you’ll have a great time. 

      Jane Lebak is a novelist and humor writer who pays someone else to change her oil and has never made a shrunken head. This story is also included in the anthology Where The Light May Lead.

      Upsie-Daisy Copyright © 2016, Jane Lebak

      All rights reserved. If you think of new rights, those are reserved too.

      eBook Edition April 2017

      This story first appeared in Where The Light May Lead: A Reflections of Faith Anthology

      By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the authors. So there.

      Cover design by Perry Elizabeth Designs

      Layout: Jane Lebak, http://www.janelebak.com

      Did you know guardian angels have a sharp sense of humor? It’s a requirement for the job, otherwise they’d run screaming instead of dealing with us. If you’re new to the Lee and Bucky stories, welcome to the world of sarcastic mechanics and pun-slinging angels. This story takes place about four months before the first of the full-length novels.

      Chapter One

      Friends wearing blue uniforms and frowny faces

      I am totally going to get us on TV with one stroke of this pen. Or rather, because of this pen that nearly gave me a stroke.

      It still writes. The customer service rep is logging this as the strangest call of his life. After he hangs up, he can retire because he’s officially Heard It All.

      My own customer, meanwhile, is waiting on the other side of the desk, sliding his car key back onto a key ring already holding what appears to be fifty of its closest friends. If my call works as intended, he might not have to pay for a tire to replace the one this pen single-handedly destroyed.

      Let me get my supervisor. The customer service rep puts me on hold, I guess to go retire.

      I give a thumbs-up to the customer. We’ve been escalated.

      My boss, Max, comes out from his office. I’ve got an idea, he says, pushing me away from the register. I’ll check him out, and if the pen people decide to pay for it, I’ll issue a refund.

      For some reason my

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