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    Revenge: A Short Story
    Revenge: A Short Story
    Revenge: A Short Story
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    Revenge: A Short Story

    By Emily Josephine

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    I am not a country-clubbing kind of woman. In fact, I’d rather get a root canal than mingle with the kind of women that socialize at country clubs. I don’t fit in with them. I am what you might call unconventional when it comes to the mainstream ideas of beauty and fashion. But when my best friend – and cousin’s wife – Marilyn invites me to her pool party with her country club friends, I kind of have to accept.

    First, my children and I have been staying with her and my cousin for the past month while my husband has been away. So we’re already at her house. It would be kind of awkward not to show up in her backyard. Besides, the kids love to swim.

    Second, my husband is coming home today, and I have nothing else to do while I’m waiting for him.

    As I predicted, one of Marilyn’s country club buddies immediately begins to find fault with me. Then another comes to join her in her subtle insults. At least the third who shows up is actually nice, and begins to stick up for me.

    But, whatever. Let the snooty, perfectly manicured, new-hairstyle-every-week women look down on me. Because my husband will be here soon, and when he shows up, I will get sweet revenge...and they will get the shock of their lives.
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    This short-short story is 4,764 words. If you love stories with surprise endings, you’ll enjoy this one. If you’re a woman who has felt the sting of not living up to societal standards, of constantly feeling the need to compete with supermodels in order to be accepted, you’ll love this story with its eyebrow-raising ending that will give you lots of warm fuzzies and lots to think about.

    Download it now, and get your laugh for the day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmily Josephine
    Release dateNov 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370709090
    Revenge: A Short Story
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    Emily Josephine

    A former sugar addict, Emily is now a fervent health nut. A former schoolteacher, she is now an avid advocate of homeschooling. A former too-much-stuff-city-dweller, she is now living her dream as a semi-minimalist rural homesteader.In between planting seeds, reading to her son, and making videos of her homestead, Emily writes both non-fiction related to health and simple living, as well as inspirational novels with characters who are often as radically anti-mainstream as she is!

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      Revenge - Emily Josephine

      Revenge: A Short Story

      by Emily Josephine

      Copyright 2017 by Emily Josephine. All rights reserved. No kind of copying this story allowed.

      DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Except for the fact that the main character is a lot like the author, none of the characters nor the story are intended to resemble anything that has happened in real life. Any such resemblance is pure coincidence. I can’t help it that there are plenty of real-life Danielles in the world.

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite online e-book retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Revenge

      So, you’re visiting your cousin, is that right?

      My gaze shifts from where my children are playing in the shallow part of the pool a few yards away toward the woman who has just spoken to me. By her perfectly styled hair and carefully made up face, I guess that she has no plans to go swimming.

      I smile politely at her as I push myself up in the lounge chair. "That’s

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