Breakaway

By Kimberly Perdue-Sims

The 4:15 train isn't the only thing rolling through Breakaway, Georgia. Climb aboard and take the ride through this tiny town, but be prepared for secrets, love, lust, and murder!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kimberly Perdue-Sims
• Release date: Apr 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476228433

Kimberly Perdue-Sims

MY BEGINNING When I was 11 years old, I made a list of everything I wanted to be when I grew up. It changed almost weekly. It ranged from an astronaut to a lion tamer, to a mountain climber to a stewardess, my imagination was limitless. I always wanted to be something exciting! By the time I was 13, I knew there was only one way to make all my dreams a reality...to become a writer. Thus began my literary journey..... REJECTION #1 As an avid reader of Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines, I figured these were the logical first choices to submit my writing to. My first "professional” attempt was a short story titled "THE CAT KILLER." dah dah daaah! I submitted it to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as soon as it left my trusty blue Smith-Corona typewriter. They rejected it even faster! I cried for two days while clutching that tiny slip of paper. But it also gave me a sense of belonging. Someone in the "literary" world had actually touched my terrible, unprofessional, non-formatted story AND sent me a rejection slip! At the age of 14, I WAS A WRITER!

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BREAKAWAY

Kimberly Perdue-Sims

Copyright 2012 by Kimberly Perdue-Sims

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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BREAKAWAY

Time destroys all things.

~Nigeria~

Who would have guessed Mavis Calhoun’s sixty-nine year old body could release a scream loud enough to wake up almost every one of the 752 sleeping souls in Breakaway, Georgia?

Her seventy-year-old widowed cousin and housemate, Dora Winslow raced into Mavis’ room as fast as her spider-veined legs could go.

Mavis Jean! What in the hot blazes are you screaming about?

Dora would have lost her upper dentures if she had not clutched her mouth so tightly when she stepped across the threshold.

Mavis’ screams diminished as her eyes focused on her cousin and not the bloody nude corpse in her bed.

My God Mavis Jean that’s Royston Gilkey. What’s he doing in your bed?

"Not much of anything at the