Family Matters

By Jason DeGray

Wily has inherited his uncle's estate in the village of Wicked Creek. But things are not as they seem when he arrives and a mysterious fog rolls in. Soon, Wily is unable to distinguish dream from reality, but that doesn't mean the danger is any less real.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Universal Butterfly
• Release date: Dec 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9780990548485

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Family Matters

Family Matters

By

Jason DeGray

UNIVERSAL BUTTERFLY

Rio Rancho, New Mexico

http://universalbutterfly.com

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Cover Art by Ben Wolf

Cover Design by Jason DeGray

Printed in the United States of America

Copyright © 2018 Jason DeGray

All Rights Reserved

ISBN: 978-0-9905484-8-5

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1

Wily,

I never liked you much. That is to say, I didn’t like you at all. You always had a bit too much of your mother in you for my taste. Her yellow streak and penchant for marijuana are the two dominant traits of hers that you inherited. As luck would have it, these are the worst traits she possessed, if she indeed possessed any positive ones.  Not to mention, you are insufferably whiny and picky and have been since you were a child. So again, I don’t like you. The day you were born was perhaps the worst day in my life aside from the day your idiot mother married that useless hippie that sired you. Isn’t it odd that the two worst days in MY life are directly related to yours? I don’t think it’s odd. I think it’s pathetic. But life gives us what it gives us and we have to make the best with what we have. And I have you. As providence would have it, you are my last surviving heir and as such are entitled to my estate. My attorney, Mr. Phillips, has all the pertinent information you require. Don’t squander my estate on dope and whatever degenerate pornography has you locked in the throes of addiction.

Your unfortunate uncle,

Winston Cooper III

He looked up from the letter at the attorney sitting across from him.

I, uh…I don’t watch porn. Not since college.

Of course, Mr. Phillips smiled. Howard Phillips Esq. was a pale, thin man with a sickly demeanor. He constantly tugged on his shirt collar