What You Tell Yourself: A Short Story

By Lisa Shiroff

The first Angie, Front and Center Short Story:

Holding bachelorette parties is such a common experience, the staff at Agie's spa has it down to a system that guarantees all goes well and everyone goes home happy. However, when Valerie, an accident-prone bride-to-be, has second thoughts and Angie accidentally talks her out of getting married, Valerie winds up passing out in a pile of dirty linens and sleeps the night in a maintenance closet. Now it's up to Angie to find a way to motivate the woman to go home before she unintentionally destroys the spa and scares off all the clients.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tasfil Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Jun 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311424709

Lisa Shiroff

Lisa Shiroff is a comedic fiction writer celebrating the often unnoticed but beautifully bizarre in life. For years, she worked professionally as a corporate freelance writer and graphic designer. Not only can she Photoshop her way into a royal wedding, but she can write a PR piece that will make a cat in a tattered wolf costume sound like a Westminster Dog Show champion. But the struggle to keep her tongue out of her cheek was giving her TMJ symptoms and she decided she'd had enough. It was time she joined the ranks of those intent on using humor to balance out the negatives in the universe. Now she is unleashing her comedic perspective on anyone willing to take the risk to read whatever she writes. Having spent her formative years in small-town America, Lisa mastered the ability to amuse herself and others with tales about people we all wished lived next door (and some who really did). Now she’s bringing those stories to light in novels with funny characters experiencing sometimes inane circumstances and always finding happy endings (yes, she’s a sucker for them). Almost living the American Dream, Lisa lives in south Jersey with her husband, two kids, and a dog. Alas, she has no picket fence.

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What You Tell Yourself:

The First Angie, Front and Center, Story

By Lisa Shiroff

Tasfil Publishing, LLC, Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2014

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This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Front cover font is Anjelika Rose, designed by Vanessa Bays at http://bythebutterfly.com.

Other books by this author include:

Hitting the Sauce

Revenge Café

What Others Tell You (the 2nd Angie, Front and Center short story)

An Introduction

In Hitting the Sauce, Lucy asks Angie why she broke up with her boyfriend. Angie replies with:

"I don’t want to be involved with a man who explains uncomfortable situations by saying he has a long story with his ex-."

"He really said that?" Lucy asked.

"Yes."

"What did you say?"

"That I didn’t want to be a subplot."

The scene is a pun because Angie is a subplot in that book. But then I grew to like the Angie character and I started feeling guilty. So to make amends with an imaginary person in my head, here is Angie, front and center as the protagonist in her own series of stories, beginning with this one.

If you enjoy this story, please check out the second in the series: What Others Tell You.

What You Tell Yourself

Valerie Mitchelson arrived at Angie’s spa with her two sisters (the three were a set of identical triplets) and a gaggle of friends for a bachelorette’s