Come-From-Aways

By Sherry D. Ramsey

Mac Laidlaw returned to his small hometown after a decade away, with big plans to build a theme park and put the place "on the map."

For Louise Coldbrook, the town's mayor and Mac's one-that-got-away, however, Mac's plans are nothing but bad news. The town has a good thing going--a very, very secret good thing--and the last thing they want is attention from the rest of the world. But Mac's not a man to take no for an answer...not this time, anyway. And certainly not without a really good explanation, which is the last thing Louise can offer him.

Not if she wants to keep the town's secret safe.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sherry D. Ramsey
• Release date: Jan 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781990178016

Sherry D. Ramsey

Sherry D. Ramsey is a speculative fiction writer, editor, publisher, creativity addict and self-confessed internet geek. When she's not writing, she makes jewelry, gardens, hones her creative procrastination skills on social media, and consumes far more coffee and chocolate than is likely good for her.Her debut novel, One's Aspect to the Sun, was published by Tyche Books in late 2013 and was awarded the Book Publishers of Alberta "Book of the Year" Award for Speculative Fiction. The sequel, Dark Beneath the Moon, is due out from Tyche in 2015. Her other books include To Unimagined Shores—Collected Stories. With her partners at Third Person Press (http://www.thirdpersonpress.com), she has co-edited five anthologies of regional short fiction to date. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies in North America and beyond. Every November she disappears into the strange realm of National Novel Writing Month and emerges gasping at the end, clutching something resembling a novel.A member of the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia Writer’s Council, Sherry is also a past Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer of SF Canada, Canada's national association for Speculative Fiction Professionals.You can visit Sherry online www.sherrydramsey.com, find her on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter @sdramsey.

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COME-FROM-AWAYS

a sci-fi short story by

Sherry D. Ramsey

Copyright © Sherry D. Ramsey 2018-2021

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This book contains a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, entities or settings is unintentional, coincidental, or entirely attributable to the whimsy of the multiverse and fluctuations in the space-time continuum.

Originally published in 2018 in The Good, The Bad, and the Funny, Story Forge Writers Collective

Ramsey, Sherry D., 1963-, author

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Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Come-From-Aways

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-990178-01-6

The day John Allan MacAskill Laidlaw blew back into town, I was one of the first people to know about it. That's because I was in Shirl's chair at The Hair Net, getting my monthly cut and style, when Mrs. Martha Dunvegan puffed in to share the news that she'd seen him. Not surprising. Mrs. Martha D. is in the loop. Heck, sometimes I think she is the loop.

Drivin' a car almost as long as the school bus, Mrs. Martha D. reported with a sniff and a shake of her well-permed and blued curls. "And a license plate that says THE MAC. I told his mother she shouldn't let him get away with that silliness about changing his name when he was