Lily Liar and the Eleventy-Headed MONSTER

By G Michael Smith

One day Lily told a lie. It wasn’t a big lie. It didn’t hurt anyone. She thought lies that didn’t hurt anyone were okay, especially if the lies helped you a little. And they did help her…at first. The little lies turn into medium lies. Medium lies turn into big lies. Big lies turn into MONSTER lies. But Lily’s lies turn into real monsters with buggy eyes and big slimy teeth. They appear everywhere and taunt her. Lily cannot escape until she discovers the one thing that can destroy a Lie Monster, especially an Eleventy-Headed one.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Indie Owl Press
• Release date: Oct 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9781949193800

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

LILY LIAR AND THE ELEVENTY-HEADED MONSTER

Copyright © 2018 G. Michael Smith

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the author, except in the case of brief excerpts in reviews and articles.

Illustrated by G. Michael Smith

Edited by Vanessa Anderson at NightOwlFreelance.com

Cover text & Interior layout/design by Vanessa Anderson

Cover art © G. Michael Smith

ISBN-10: 1-949193-80-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-949193-80-0

For Cheryl who keeps the monsters at bay.

Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.

—Victoria Schwab, The Archived

Table of Contents

Mouthful of Grapes

and the

Cotton Candy Apple

Lies

Home Alone

More Lies

Blueberry Monsters

A Nasty Monster in

My Backpack

Perfect Scores

Pizza

The Lego Dream

The Pink Monster

Lily Faces the Monsters

Acknowledgements

Also by G. Michael Smith

About the Author

Mouthful of Grapes

and the

Cotton Candy Apple

It all started in school. Snack time. Lily liked to watch the other kids eat. She wanted to see what everyone else had for a snack. She looked at Billy as he opened his lunch box. He reached in and pulled out a small zip-lock bag of grapes. They were almost black. He stuffed one after the other in his mouth until his cheeks were bulgy and bumpy. Then he tried to chew. The juice squirted out and David started to laugh. Billy opened his mouth to show David a mouthful of crushed grapes.

Charlotte sat down beside Lily and they both stared at Billy’s open, grape-filled mouth with disgust.

They looked around at the other students. Greta had cherry yogurt. She was eating it with a plastic spoon. Alley had cheese fish crackers. Lily loved cheese fish crackers. She opened her bag and looked in. She knew she had an apple. She always had an apple. She was right. There was an apple sitting in the bottom of her bag.

Whatcha got? Charlotte asked Lily.

Lily looked in her bag again. The slightly soft and very wrinkled apple stared back. Then she