Bensonhyphentaft

By William Young

At the happiest moment of Rachel Benson-Taft's life, she realizes that saying "yes" will really change everything. But, then, what's in a name?

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Young
• Release date: Dec 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465853974

William Young

William Young can fly helicopters and airplanes, drive automobiles, steer boats, rollerblade, water ski, snowboard, and ride a bicycle. His career as a newspaper reporter spanned more than a decade at five different newspapers. He has also worked as a golf caddy, flipped burgers at a fast food chain, stocked grocery store shelves, sold ski equipment, worked at a funeral home, unloaded trucks for a department store and worked as a uniformed security guard. He lives in a small post-industrial town along the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania with his wife and three children.

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BENSONHYPHENTAFT

By William Young

Published at Smashwords by William Young

Copyright 2011 by William Young

The hyphen had been handed down to her by her parents and had become, by the time she had turned fourteen and the witticisms of her classmates had grown cleverer, a spoken part of her name. By the time she graduated from high school she was no longer Rachel Benson-Taft, but, rather, Bensonhyphentaft, the pronunciation of which she often found herself correcting when people addressed her as Ms. Benson-Taft. Her parents -- Bradley Benson and Liselle Taft -- had originally been amused, then annoyed, before settling into displeased acceptance of their daughter’s suigeneris