Hell's Belles

By Dayle A. Dermatis

Teaching etiquette to a spoiled debutante can be hell...literally. Lilith, the most sought-after debutante trainer in the South, meets her match in Miss Alexandria Pointer-Ashe. A snappy fantasy short story, which includes the BONUS story “The Devil Went Down to the Sunset Strip”! Find out why USA Today Bestselling Author Dean Wesley Smith calls Dermatis “one of the best writers working today.”
“Hell’s Belles” originally appeared in Deathgrip: Exit Laughing (Hellbound Books, 2006).

DAYLE A. DERMATIS’s short fantasy has been called “funny (and rather ingenious),” “something new and something fresh,” and “really, really good!” Under various pseudonyms (and sometimes with coauthors), she’s sold several novels and more than 100 short stories in several genres. She lives and works in California within scent of the ocean, and in her spare time follows Styx around the country and travels the world, all of which inspires her writing. To find out where she is today, check out DayleDermatis DOT com.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Soul's Road Press
• Release date: Mar 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458093073

Dayle A. Dermatis

Dayle A. Dermatis is the author or coauthor of many novels (including snarky urban fantasies Ghosted and the forthcoming Shaded and Spectered) and more than a hundred short stories in multiple genres, appearing in such venues as Fiction River, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and DAW Books.Called the mastermind behind the Uncollected Anthology project, she also guest edits anthologies for Fiction River, and her own short fiction has been lauded in many year's best anthologies in erotica, mystery, and horror.She lives in a book- and cat-filled historic English-style cottage in the wild greenscapes of the Pacific Northwest. In her spare time she follows Styx around the country and travels the world, which inspires her writing.To find out where she’s wandered off to (and to get free fiction!), check out DayleDermatis.com and sign up for her newsletter or support her on Patreon.* * *I value honest feedback, and would love to hear your opinion in a review, if you’re so inclined, on your favorite book retailer’s site.* * *For more information:www.dayledermatis.com

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HELL’S BELLES

THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO THE SUNSET STRIP

Dayle A. Dermatis

Electronic edition published 2012 by Soul’s Road Press

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Copyright © Dayle A. Dermatis. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction, in whole or in part in any form, without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events 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.

Hell’s Belles originally appeared in Deathgrip: Exit Laughing (Hellbound Books, 2006).

The Devil Went Down to the Sunset Strip originally appeared in Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia (Raven Electrick Ink, 2010).

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RICH SOUTHERN WOMEN have had common sense bred right out of them. What’s replaced it is an overdeveloped obsession with ritual and decorum, and a fear of looking bad in society.

Which isn’t a terrible thing, because it keeps me in a job.

I’m the most sought-after debutante trainer in the South. Mothers may think their daughters