Invitation to a Former Girlfriend’s Wedding

By Fred Schäfer

Invitation to a Former Girlfriend’s Wedding
A novella of life-changing servings
Fred Schäfer
Synopsis

This novella covers two genres, fiction and nonfiction. An elderly man, Tony, with American, German and Australian nationalities, tells his story: how he receives a wedding invitation from a former girlfriend that he hadn’t seen and heard of for decades. This invitation creates emotional upheaval in his life, but also turns his life into a massive challenge. His former girlfriend sends him a photo of herself. She looks beautiful and sexy. He contemplates attending the wedding. But first he has to lose fifty five pounds, that’s twenty five kilograms. That’s how he sees it. He not only wants to attend the wedding, he also wants to make love to his former girlfriend, just once more.

At this point the nonfiction part of the story kicks in. Tony tells the reader how he goes about trying to change himself from an old, fat, ugly and sick looking man into a young looking, slim, handsome and healthy man. However, there is one major problem. He doesn’t have a lot of time. The wedding date is his deadline.

At first, Tony develops his own weight loss approach. The approach shows positive results, but it doesn’t work nearly fast enough. He needs help and finds it in the form of a well-known movie celebrity, Clint Eastwood. The famous actors tells him what to do.

By combining his own approach with Clint Eastwood’s advice, Tony introduces the reader to a weight loss life style that most readers would regard as the most sensible and most convincing approach they had ever heard of. But did it actually enable Tony to achieve his goal? To get rid of fifty five pounds prior to the wedding? This shall not be revealed here.

The reader now returns to the fictional part of the novella and finds out what happens as far as the wedding and Tony’s sexual intentions are concerned.

Finally, there is one major new development. A development of such magnitude that it changes Tony’s life to an extent he could not even have imagined prior to the wedding invitation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fred Schäfer
• Release date: Mar 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311323804

Fred Schäfer

Fred Schäfer was born in the south of Germany and left home at the age of nineteen. A few years later he discovered the world of literature.Two of his books, The Short and Wonderful Life of Henry Hemingway and Travelling with Maria, provide insight into the early years of his life. The Mysterious Man completes the picture, although not entirely, because The Mysterious Man is a novel, not an autobiography. Or is it both? A book in which reality and fiction merge?At the age of thirty six, the author and his family moved to Australia, where they reside today. He worked as an engineer and IT manager, then became a professional speaker. During those years, he wrote two nonfiction books: The Solution Within Yourself and Success, Money and You. A few years later he published the essence of his seminars in his third nonfiction book, How to Make Great Things Happen in YOUR LIFE.Fred Schäfer’s heart belongs to the world of literature, which to him means fiction. He has written eight novels in total, three in German and five in English. His English novels are:An Almighty Conspiracy,The Invention of the Big Bang,The 92-Year-Old Lady Who Made Me Steal a Dead Man's Car,The Mysterious Man, andDon’t Mention the FBI.The 92-Year-Old Lady Who Made Me Steal a Dead Man's Car, clearly, is Fred Schäfer’s most imaginative literary fiction novel. As the subtitle of the book says, it is a thrilling and seriously funny novel. The author demonstrates his creative power to an almost unimaginable degree. Literary characters from the books of his heroes come alive and attempt something, which would make their authors, if they knew about it, scream in horror or rotate in their graves.Fred Schäfer is an indie author. Indie stands for independent. Financially, indie authors and indie publishers can’t compete with the big publishing houses. Their strongest marketing tools are reviews posted by the readers of their books. When you have finished reading one of Fred’s books, please post a review on the webpage, where you purchased the book. Thank you.

Book preview

Invitation to a Former Girlfriend’s Wedding

A novella of life-changing servings

Fred Schäfer

This is Tony’s story. He wrote it as an inspiration for overweight and obese people. A few years ago he saw himself as fat, unattractive, sick and old. When he stood on the scale, it pointed to 223 pounds, that’s 101 kilograms. Then, out of the blue, he received a wedding invitation from a former girlfriend he hadn’t seen for decades. A week later, she sent him a photograph of herself. Tony could hardly believe his eyes. She looked stunning and very sexy. The heavy man wondered… Could there be one more passionate night for the two of them?

He realized, for this to happen he had to lose a lot of weight first; fifty five pounds, at least. But there is more to Tony’s story. There is his former girlfriend’s trickery and there is Clint Eastwood. Without Clint’s help, the outcome would have been a different one. And finally, there is Tony’s desire for just one more passionate night with his former girlfriend. That part of the story turned into something utterly and completely unexpected.

Invitation to a Former Girlfriend’s Wedding

Copyright © 2015 Paul Friedrich Schäfer (Fred Schäfer)

Photos: All photos in this novella are photos taken by the author or, to the best of the author’s knowledge, public domain photos that can be used free for personal and commercial use.

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Fred Schäfer asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. All rights are reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the written consent of the author, except in the case of brief excerpts in reviews or articles. This book is fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are used fictitiously.

This novella is dedicated to the millions of overweight people on this planet. May happiness be with you, with or without losing weight.

And may we all remember, life is not what happens to us, life is what our thinking makes of the stuff that happens to us.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Author’s Note

Books by Fred Schäfer

About the Author

Fred Schäfer was born in the south of Germany and left home at the age of nineteen. A few years later he discovered the world of literature.

Two of his books, The Short and Wonderful Life of Henry Hemingway and Travelling with Maria, provide insight into the early years of his life. The Mysterious Man completes the picture, although not entirely, because The Mysterious Man is a novel, not an autobiography. Or is it both? A book in which reality and fiction merge?

At the age of thirty six, the author and his family moved to Australia, where they reside today. He worked as an engineer and IT manager, then became a professional speaker, making a name for himself presenting personal development seminars. During those years, he wrote two nonfiction books: The Solution Within Yourself and Success, Money and You. A few years later he published the essence of his seminars in his third nonfiction book, How to Make Great Things Happen in YOUR LIFE.

Fred Schäfer’s heart belongs to the world of literature, which to him means fiction. He has written eight novels in total, three in German and five in English. A short description of his books can be found at the end of this novella. His English novels are:

An Almighty Conspiracy

The Invention of the Big Bang

The 92-Year-Old Lady Who Made Me Steal a Dead Man's Car

The Mysterious Man and

Don’t Mention the FBI.

The 92-Year-Old Lady Who Made Me Steal a Dead Man's Car, clearly, is Fred Schäfer’s most imaginative literary fiction novel. As the subtitle of the book says, it is a thrilling and seriously funny novel. The author demonstrates his creative power to an almost unimaginable degree. Literary characters from the books of his heroes come alive and attempt something, which would make their authors, if they knew about it, scream in horror or rotate in their graves.

Fred Schäfer is an indie author. Indie stands for independent. Financially, indie authors and indie publishers can’t compete with the big publishing