Fake It Till You Make It

By Erika M Szabo

A short story:
Nancy arrives home from a long day at work. She kicks off her high heels and walks into the kitchen. Bruce lights the candles on the dinner table and embraces her in a warm hug. Her two girls, ages five and six, are running from the playroom to greet her. Their handsome seventeen-year-old boy looks up from his computer and smiles at her.
A beautiful picture, isn’t it? The man plays the role of the happy househusband and the wife is the breadwinner. Nothing is wrong with that. But, let’s just see how they got to this ideal picture of a happy home.
"What a beautiful way to show that family dynamics don't need to fit into a stereotype to work. Bruce knew his father was no role model. I loved how he took a chance and followed his father's motto "fake it till you make it" and made it positive. Nicely developed I highly recommend reading this book!"
~Cindy J. Smith

• Language: English
• Publisher: Erika M Szabo
• Release date: Jun 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463221242

Erika M Szabo

Erika became an avid reader at a very early age, thanks to her dad who introduced her to many great books. Erika writes alternate history, romantic fantasy, magical realism novels as well as fun, educational, and bilingual books for children ages 4-12 about acceptance, friendship, family, and moral values such as accepting people with disabilities, dealing with bullies, and not judging others before getting to know them.

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Fake It Till You Make It

A Short Story

By Erika M Szabo

Copyright © Erika M Szabo, 2019

Fake It Till You Make It: A Short Story

Part of the Rainbows and Clouds audiobook.

Smashwords edition

Published by Golden Box Books Publishing

www.goldenboxbooks.com

Edited by Tricia Drammeh www.triciadrammeh.com/

Book cover art, illustrations, book formatting, and book interior design by Erika M Szabo

www.authorerikamszabo.com

Picture credits: the photographs and clipart used in the books and to create the book covers were purchased from Fotolia and Shutterstock and from Pixabay for commercial use.

This is a fictional work. The names, characters, incidents, places, and locations are solely the concepts and products of the author’s imagination or are used to create a fictitious story and should not be construed as real.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations, reviews, and articles.

Prologue

Nancy arrives home from a long day at work. She kicks off her high heels and walks into the kitchen. Bruce lights the candles on the dinner table and embraces her in a warm hug. Her two girls, ages five and six, are running from the playroom to greet her. Their handsome seventeen-year-old boy looks up from his computer and smiles at her.

Welcome home, honey. Dinner is ready, go wash up, Bruce announces, smiling. Nancy is happy; she counts her blessings to have found a man like Bruce.

They eat dinner and talk about their day. Nancy works at a law firm; she tells him about the long and boring meetings, and that she had to bring some work home. He assures her that it’s okay because he has some laundry to finish. He winks at her playfully, hinting and promising a pleasure-filled evening before they go to sleep.

The children are chatting about their day.

Mommy, Dayna announces with sparkly eyes. We made a new pillow for Muffin. Isabelle sewed it together and I stuffed it. Muffin loves it!

Isabelle stands up and grabs