Pet Names (A Short Story, Oh So Sad ... yeah, right)

By Celeste Drolle

Start with two cups of Southern bosom-heaving romance. Stir with an ounce of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhikers Guide" sci-fi. Fold lightly with a shiny blue roadster that apparently hatched from an egg. Cook it over the flames of fondness between Amanda and Sergei. (Oops! ... I meant to say "Miss Backseat Pleasure" and "Shoogie.") -- and have a little fun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zacharias O'Bryan
• Release date: May 2, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452361741

Celeste Drolle

Celeste Drolle sets aside precious little time for writing, and her critics complain that it shows. Celeste shrugs this off, aims her TV remote, and tunes in another telenovela.* * *Time for writing or not, she rarely lacks for stories -- a trait, she points out, that she shares with other habitual liars. "Can you imagine if Dick Nixon had written fiction?" smiles Celeste: "I promise to tell the Half Truth, the Twisted Truth, and nothing resembling the Truth."* * *Pressed about the unlikely likeness of her publicity photo, she mumbles something inaudible about the British Museum, face lifts, and "what's a girl to do?"* * *In pursuit of her promise to write longer fiction one day, must her ravenous appetite for C movies, hush puppies and libidinous living be curtailed? "I have often worried that advancing age might trim my sails," muses Ms. Drolle. "Lordy, how mistaken can a body can be?"

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Pet Names

A Short Story, Oh So Sad. (yeah, right…)

by

Celeste Drolle

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Copyright © 2010 by Celeste Drolle and VeraVoz LLC

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are