The Go-To Girl

By C. C. Blake

Angela was more than a friend. She was a go-to girl: The only person her bff Callie could confide in. Or so she thought.

"Heeeey, Angie-Angie-Angela-la. Come over Saturday night. Callie and I are together, again. And we want to celebrate the hap-hap-happy news."

When she broke it off with her creepy boyfriend, Callie called it the happiest day of her life. So why is she suddenly getting back together with the creep? And why is Angela hearing about it from Benny, the ex?

When Callie won't return her calls, Angela's only recourse is to attend a party held by the scummiest ex-boyfriend ever. Her mission: Answers. She cannot expect the macabre and terrifying answers she finds.

Secrets abound, and as she plumbs them all, Angie will discover what it means to be a Go-To Girl.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Twice Told Tales II
• Release date: Nov 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301424214

C. C. Blake

C.C. Blake has lived across the United States, starting in the suburbs of Detroit, to Massachusetts’ second largest city (Worcester) to the country’s seventh largest city (San Antonio, Texas, that is). He’s has a variety of jobs, working as a substitute teacher, the graveyard shift dishwasher at a haunted Denny’s, lab research monkey and teaching assistant at a second tier college. Currently, he works as an automation consultant for a chemical company on the Northeast side of SAtown (which isn’t as Hellish as it sounds). Blake’s most popular character, irrepressible adventurer Chuck Cave, has appeared in over two dozen stories, including the 2005 Man’s Story 2 Story of the Year Award winner “Chuck Cave and the Vanishing Vixen.” The character’s supernatural thriller stories (which began with the seminal “Cave and the Vamp”) are all being released as a part of Vampires2.com’s initial foray into e-books. These new versions are presented in expanded and revised versions, all are the author’s preferred texts. Be sure to collect them all! In addition to his pulp stories for the 2-Empire (Man’s Story 2, Vampires 2, Androids 2 and Paranormal Romance 2), Blake’s fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including Unparalleled Journeys II (from Journey Books Publishing) and Fearology: Terrifying Tales of Phobias (from Library of Horror Press).

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The Go-To Girl

A Tale of Suspense

By: C. C. Blake

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Heeeey, Angie-Angie-Angela-la. Benny sounding stoned on the phone, as usual, made my skin crawl. He did not wait for me to reply before he said, Come over Saturday night. Callie and I are together, again. And we want to celebrate the hap-hap-happy fucking news.

Hap-hap-happy my ass. No words I could actually speak sprang to mind. Only: What the hell is wrong with that girl?

Callie and Benny had been together from eighth grade in Richards Middle to twelfth grade at Fraser High. She dumped his sorry ass a month after graduation. "It was because he wouldn't let me be me," she had explained. I was her go-to: the jerk who hears all about someone's troubles. Yes, I suffered the problems shared by most pretty people's go-tos—I had no go-to of my own, and I was wildly, wonderfully, truly in love with Callie. She didn't see me as anything other than a friend—not