The Stories We Tell When Drinking Coffee: A Collection of Short Stories and Flash Fiction

By Latresha Byrd

"Lunch Date" is about a young woman named Melanie who is asked out by her coworker even if it is just for lunch. Will it go well? "What She Saw" is about the story of Lindsey who has been crushing on her friend Adrian for two years. Thanks to social media, she discovers something about him that changes everything. In "The Con Man" James Bradford's greed leads him to steal $62 million. As the judge reads him his sentence, he realizes that he will lose more than his freedom. In "He Called it Art", Kenny's painting is misinterpreted. Lena is fed up with her inability to find a job as she watches her savings disappear. One phone call changes everything in "Unemployment Blue". "Grown Children", Evelyn is fed up when her daughter and son in law won't move out after two years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Latresha Byrd
• Release date: Sep 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301833429

Latresha Byrd

Hello and thank you for stopping by. I have been an avid reader and writing since childhood. I started writing seriously in 2010, by contributing articles and web content for several sites including Yahoo Contributor's Network, Helium, Suite 101, and Knoji. I also write for my personal blogs YA Books Etc., and Write Latresha. I have always dreamed of writing stories and books, and thanks to self publishing my dreams can finally come true.

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The Stories we tell when Drinking Coffee: A Collection of Short stories and flash fiction

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The Stories We Tell When Drinking Coffee: A Collection of Short Stories and Flash Fiction

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This book is a work of fiction. While many of the places and locations are real, the characters are of the author’s imagination. Some of the stories are loosely based on real life situations.

Lunch Date

I can’t do this, thought Melanie as she watched the numbers on the computer’s clock change from 11:59 to 12:00. She logged off her computer and grabbed her purse. Melanie fell into step behind everyone else who was leaving to eat in the cafeteria, vending machines, or just to sit outside. Normally, Melanie would be purchasing a sandwich, wrap, or salad from the cafeteria, but today she had different plans; she was going on a lunch date. Thomas, from the IT department had asked her out. Up until three days ago, no one had ever asked her out. Melanie wondered what was wrong with this picture. Everyone she knew had told her that she was a beautiful intelligent girl. Melanie always figured that the people she knew were