Poison Ivy

By Violetta Antcliff

After Sally has lived in care for over twenlve years, someone has come forward and says she would like to be Sally's foster mother, and Sally can't be happier. It was the young and prettiest who got chosen as a rule. Sally has never been called pretty but she knows how to look after herself, that is until Ivy Webster comes into her life. Being t

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing
• Release date: Mar 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781619506787

Violetta Antcliff

Violetta Antcliff has been a member of the Nottingham Writers' Club for over twenty years. A winner of numerous short story competitions, her work was area short listed in Waterstone's Wow Factor story competition. Took first prize in Nottingham County Council short story competition with a story called "Irish Mouse Tales," which was published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing as an eBook in July of 2012. She has had her poetry and short stories read on local radio. Violetta is a prolific writer of short fiction, having written and published more than 40 short stories with Gypsy Shadow.

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Contents

Copyright Page

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

About the Author

Poison Ivy

Violetta Antcliff

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Copyright © December 31, 2021, Violetta Antcliff

Cover Art Copyright © 2022, Charlotte Holley

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ISBN: 978-1-61950-678-7

Published in the United States of America

First eBook Edition: March 30, 2022

Chapter 1

Sally was excited but at the same time apprehensive. After spending over twelve years in care someone had finally come forward and said they would like to be her foster parent. Who that was she had no idea; the only thing she did know was the person in question had been accepted, and passed, as a suitable foster parent.

Sat on a chair, a carpet bag holding her few worldly possessions at her feet, Sally waited for that person to arrive. She glanced, not for the first time, at the wall clock. Nine-fifteen was still early and she’d been told to be ready and waiting by 10 am. She’d been ready and waiting since eight.

She’d said her goodbyes the night before to the children she’d made friends with at the care home. Over the years her friends had come and gone as they were fostered out. The young and pretty ones were always the first to be chosen for fostering.

Sally had never been what one would call a pretty child, and more than once she’d been described as willful, disobedient, by the nuns. Sally however, liked to think of herself as strong willed, independent—someone able to look out for herself. She was dependent on no one but herself, and that was the way she liked it.

Sally’s foster mother arrived on the stroke of ten, looking harassed and Sally wondered why, but before she had time to ask, she was bundled into the back of a car, a top of the range Volvo.

Sat belted up, she waited for the woman to say something. So far the only thing she’d said was, Get in the car, don’t dawdle

There were so many questions Sally wanted answers to. Why did she want to foster her, when nobody else ever had was one of them. Was this the first time she had ever fostered was another. She didn’t even know where she would be living, town or country? She would have liked answers.

There was one more thing, she didn’t know, which was how she should address the woman who was going to be her foster mother. Her name was Webster—that