"Li'l Helps"

By David Masselink

This is a simple story of sibling rivalry. Two sisters do not appreciate one another. Nothing complicated.

However, when each goes farther from home, she reaches a fork in the road. Naturally, they take different paths.

Obviously.

Simple, right? The problem is, they have to return home by nightfall.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Masselink
• Release date: Jun 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463947142

David Masselink

David Masselink is a writer. He figured he couldn't make a living writing in Prince Edward Island, so he moved west. For many years, he earned a living in Los Angeles, and had no time to write. So he invented an hour at the beginning of the day, writes short stories, and dreams of moving east where the days are a little longer.

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Li'l Helps

by David Masselink

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2014 David Masselink

Once there were two girls, who, except for having the same mother and father, you would never have known they were sisters. Their names were Tina and -- well, we'll get to their names in a moment.

They lived in a time when cars drove only on roads in a far-away country, where telephones consisted of two tin cans connected with a string across the street between the store and the bank. And the internet? Someone had the brilliant idea of tying another string and a third can to the first two so three people could communicate at once. But that was in town.

These girls lived on a farm, far from town, almost exactly in the middle of nowhere. This particular patch of nowhere was