Aunt Lottie's Ring: A Short Thriller

By Shari Broyer

Aunt Lottie dies at age 120, survived only by her great-great niece Phoenix. When she stands beside her aunt's corpse and takes her hand, Phoenix disovers Lottie is wearing an engagement ring. Strange...her maiden aunt never ever, ever wore the ring before, never mentioned having had a fiancee. Even more strange is what happens when Phoenix, still single herself, slips the ring on her own finger..

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shari Broyer
• Release date: Aug 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476071497

Shari Broyer

Shari Broyer has been writing since early childhood. Her earliest awards: a 1st place trophy for Creative Writing and certificate for First Runner-Up in Poetry at 8th grade graduation. Formerly she was: Editor in Chief of KSU Ashtabula’s literary magazine, Kaleidoscope Facilitator, Writers’ Forum, Barnes and Noble, High Point, NC Host of Writer’s Digest World’s Largest Writing Workshop, Barnes and Noble, High Point, NC Published in various literary anthologies (most recently her poem “One-Eyed Jack” and “Squirrel” photo were featured in Wild Edges--Manzanita, Poetry and Prose of the Mother Lode and Sierra, released August 2010 and available in print). Top 100 winner, Writer’s Digest 2000 competition—Inspirational category, Shades of Gray Winner of author Terri Weeding’s Little Ole Humor Contest, etc. She recently completed the novel, Ether Man, and the short mystery, Petty Theft. Her second novel, Fish Story: A “Tail” of True Love, is now a work in progress. Currently, she resides in Mesa, AZ and facilitates Writers Roundtable at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, AZ. She is a volunteer staff member of IndieBookCollective (online site) reviewing others’ works for YourNeedToRead (online site). She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Desert Rose Chapter, and she is also an editor for hire. She welcomes your feedback at [e-mail] and invites you to visit her website: www.sharibroyerbooks.weebly.com

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Aunt Lottie’s Ring

a short thriller

by Shari Broyer

This short story is a work of fiction. Any references to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination, and are not to be construed as real.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by George Sirois

Aunt Lottie’s Ring

Also by the Author

Coming Soon

About the Author

Foreword by George Sirois

Whether you like them or not, you’re here because of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the co-creators of South Park.

Last month, I was watching their documentary 6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park, and it showed the grueling process they and their crew go through to come up with the concept for a show, write the script, storyboard the episode, design the animation, voice the characters, cover any and all rewrites, repeat the process until it’s the way Trey and Matt like it and then finalize the episode and get it to Comedy Central before it airs at 10pm EST on Wednesday nights. A lot of times, the finished product will get to Comedy Central in LA a couple hours before air time.

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