Naughty or Nice: Neighbor's
By Rita Schulz
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A Neighbor's Mystery short story.
After Heather, Tom, and their cairn terrier, Buddy, agree to take in a troubled girl for the Christmas holidays valuables mysteriously begin to disappear. Heather begins to suspect the girl is stealing but cannot believe she would do such a thing.
A mystery with a magical twist that will surprise the family and warm their hearts.
Rita Schulz
Rita lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia with, Russ, her husband, who is also a fiction writer. She has written for years and is an alumnus of the Oregon Writers Network, and the Greater Vancouver Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Her most recently published stories are Fire in Their Hearts with R.G. Hart from Champagne books, and Ladies of the Jolly Roger and Tales of the Fantastic, from 53rd Street Publishing. Please visit her website at http://www.ritacrossley.com to view her other works.
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Naughty or Nice - Rita Schulz
Naughty or Nice
A Neighbor’s Mystery short story
Rita Schulz
53rd Street PublishingNaughty or Nice
Rita Schulz
Published by 53rd Street Publishing
Copyright 2017 Rita Schulz
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Cover art © Klanneke/depositphotos
Cover designed by R. Edgewood
Cover design and layout copyright 2017 by 53rd Street Publishing
53rd Street Publishing
Head office: Gibsons B.C. Canada
www.53rdsteetpublishing.com
This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.
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Naughty or Nice
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Naughty or Nice
Come on, drop it,
muttered Buddy under his breath as he looked intently at Tom’s fingers gripping the corner of a crispy piece of toast.
The air was heavy with the smell of toasted full grain bread, peanut butter, and rich, full-bodied hot coffee. Thankfully the heat was turned up in the house, since it was getting toward the end of December on the West Coast of Canada.
Buddy, the red Cairn terrier, lay at his feet on the travertine vinyl tiles that covered the kitchen floor. His dark eyes drifted between, Tom, a slim young looking fifty-five year old man with brown salt-and pepper hair and Heather with her short white hair and sparkling gray eyes, sitting enjoying breakfast at their heavy oak oval kitchen table.
They were talking and totally ignoring him, again.
Since Tom, his father, retired Heather, his mother, had not been giving him the attention he liked and was used too.
A prime example, this morning they were laughing, having toast with peanut better, and not sharing. Not even a little bit. Heather was usually a stickler and didn’t share very often, but