Grilled: A Facile Restaurant Short Story

By Jacey Conrad and Gia Corona

The next installment of the Facile Restaurant series of 10 short stories by Jacey Conrad and Gia Corona. Each story focuses on a different couple.

Delia Montgomery is on the worst date in history of dates. The charming, funny version of “Chip” that she met online was an internet mirage, dissolving to leave her with an over-coiffed, raging douche canoe. Chip seems to be following some sort of handbook entitled, “How To Make Your Date Want To Stab You In The Face in Three Easy Steps.” Between the back-handed compliments and “helpful suggestions,” Delia is seriously considering tunneling her way through the floor of Facile with a shrimp fork.

Enter their waiter Byron, who is immediately smitten with the gorgeous victim of an internet date gone awry. Byron is a smooth, well-mannered counterpoint to dating dud Chip, who does not appreciate witnessing the instant chemistry between his date and the server he has no plans to tip. When the date implodes, Bryon is there to provide the special sort of service Delia needs to recover.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeanette Battista
• Release date: Jan 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310484940

Jacey Conrad

Jacey Conrad is a sushi-loving, pop culture nerd living in semi-rural Kentucky with her high school sweetheart husband and two impressionable children. She delights in horribly made mutant shark movies and watching Sean Bean die in his various cinematic incarnations.

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GRILLED

A Facile Restaurant Short Story

Jacey Conrad and Gia Corona

Copyright © 2015 Jacey Conrad & Gia Corona

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Grilled: A Facile Restaurant Short Story

Cordelia Montgomery--or Delia as she preferred to be called--stepped out of the cab with a feeling of dread. She didn’t wait for her date, Chip Sheffield, to open the door for her. She just hustled out and waited on the curb in front of Facile as he paid the cabbie. Maybe if she rushed her way through dinner, she could be back at home and in her favorite pair of lounge pants in time to watch Grey’s Anatomy on the DVR before bed.

To say she no longer had high hopes for this date was like saying the ocean was moist or that space was a little chilly. When this was all over, she was going home, deleting her LoveConnection.com profile and never speaking of this atrocity ever again.

She and Chip had connected through the dating site. He seemed like a nice guy online and on the few real time phone conversations they’d had. He was conscientious and sweet and funny, and the fact that he had a drop dead gorgeous picture didn’t hurt, so she’d agreed to a face-to-face actual real-life date. And now she stood on the street in the French Quarter wondering where the hell that guy had gone.

Chip was still gorgeous, to be sure. He was about six foot three, with beach boy tousled blond hair and blue eyes. He clearly worked out a lot and took pride in being fit, as his exquisitely tailored shirt seemed painted on to his shoulders and chest. He was tan and healthy looking, with white, even teeth. Basically, some men’s magazine was missing their cover model.

Delia wished they would send out a search party to come and find him.

He crossed behind the cab as it pulled away, and joined her on the sidewalk. You shouldn’t squint, Cordy, he said, peering into her blue-green eyes. You’ll get crow’s feet.

It’s Delia, she reminded him. Again. She hated the nickname Cordy. It was so…not her. She swept her red hair--true red, not the unnatural