Sunny Pastures

By Lilah Suzanne

When Frankie's glamorous big city life falls apart, the only place she has left to go is her grandmother's retirement village where she's charmed by her grandmother's friends, and a beautiful home health aide named Claire.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Release date: Feb 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781951954109

Lilah Suzanne

Lilah Suzanne is the author of Amazon bestseller Broken Records, part of the Spotlight series along with Burning Tracks and Blended Notes. Lilah also authored Spice, the novellas Pivot & Slip and After the Sunset, and the short story Halfway Home, which was featured in the holiday anthology If the Fates Allow. A writer from a young age, Lilah resides in North Carolina and mostly enjoys staying indoors, though sometimes ventures out for concerts, museum visits, and quiet walks in the woods.

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Copyright © 2021 Lilah Suzanne

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ISBN 13: 978-1-951954-10-9 (ebook)

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Locked in, locked out, locked down.

In four short stories, authors explore relationships born from, changed by, and discovered in isolation.

Contents

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

About the Author

One

Everything Frankie owns fits into

two cardboard boxes and one Saint Laurent weekend bag that was part of a set, the rest of which she sold to fund her trip here. Frankie wobbles down the steps of the city bus she took from the transportation center downtown, mentally blocks every single thing she witnessed—and smelled—on her previous eleven-hour, multi-state bus ride, sets her boxes down, and shades her eyes from the glaring sun as she gets her bearings.

Frankie spent her childhood in Norfolk, Virginia and most of her adult life in Chicago, and yet, if she were blindfolded and kidnapped and dropped right here with no further information, she would know exactly where she was by the shimmer of heat rising from the pavement, the crunch of the grass and shifting of soft soil beneath her feet, and the scrubby palm plants stiff against the rise of skinny pines. She can see across the flat suburban landscape for what feels like miles; far enough to see a distant storm gathering ominous black clouds. The air is thick, the sun harsh, the ant piles knee-high. This is Grandma territory. This is Florida.

Frankie’s bus from Chicago ran late, which meant she missed her connecting bus from