Here’s Julie from The Red Dress to tell you about her summer career as a scooper. Take it away, Julie.
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I can see why my blind Aunt Polly wouldn’t want to work in a place like The Sugar Shack. Scooping ice cream is hard, even when you can see.
Once, my mom came into the shop with my brother and sister. Mom made me so nervous that I dropped a scoop of ice cream on the floor. Michelle, my boss, yelled at me in front of my family. I was mortified.
I told Mom never to come into the shop while I was working. It’s weird, but Dad never made me nervous.
Now, just when things are getting good, I have to quit my job because my family wants to drive to California. I get that it’s summer and we haven’t taken a vacation in years, since Mom has been so busy with her books. But I love this job. Michelle is planning to show me how to use the blender, so I can make milkshakes.
Of course, I’m planning to quit in the fall when I start my senior year of high school, but I’m not ready to quit yet. What’s more, Mom grounded me because she doesn’t like my attitude. What am I going to do?
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By the way, from now until July 31st, you can download My Ideal Partner and The Red Dress absolutely free from Smashwords as part of its annual summer/winter sale. Click here to visit my Smashwords author page.
Also, for those of you who use the National Library Services for the Blind and Print Disabled, The Red Dress is available for download from their site here. Thank you for reading. Stay safe, happy, and healthy.
New! The Red Dress
Copyright July 2019 by DLD Books
When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.
Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.
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