From Sunset to Sunset

By Thorn Osgood

Colleen is a God-fearing woman, committed to her religious beliefs and refuses to do anything against them, even if it means she’ll be fired from her job. Her son, Sam, thinks this is absurd and tells her so, but she remains steadfast. When she gets a new job, something happens that she never would have imagined.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MindWingsAudio
• Release date: May 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781611146172

Thorn Osgood

Thorn Osgood was born in Thomasville, Georgia, and grew up in South Florida. During her grade school years, her father read her stories that fed her imagination. Through the years, she has traveled many times to that special place in her mind to imagine fantastic yarns and what ifs and she has finally started to write them down. Thorn currently lives in Crawford County, Georgia with her Mittelschnauzer, Raskoph.

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CONTENT WARNING: Violence, Child abuse

FROM SUNSET TO SUNSET

Thorn Osgood

Table of Contents

Front Matter

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

About the Author

From Sunset to Sunset by Thorn Osgood

©2022 by Thorn Osgood. All rights reserved.

Published by Mind Wings Audio

SAN: 859–0745

Cover Art: Designs By Rachelle

Smashwords Electronic Edition: April 2022

ISBN 9781611146172

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This story was created entirely from the imagination of the author. The story and characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Chapter 1

Colleen stood in her supervisor’s office doorway, waiting for an acknowledgment to enter. After a few seconds, she tapped on the metal door frame. The supervisor looked up from the papers on her desk.

Come in, Ms. Matthews. Please close the door and have a seat, the supervisor said.

Colleen did as she was told.

The supervisor glanced at Colleen and back at the papers on her desk. She stacked the documents and put them aside.

Colleen felt uneasy. She knew being called to the office was not a good thing, especially in midafternoon. Her shift ended at three, and it was about two forty-five.

"Ms. Matthews, I’ve had you on the work schedule to work Saturdays on four different occasions, and each time you have refused to come in. And you’ve always refused to work after sunset on Fridays."

Colleen’s eyes met the supervisor’s, then she glanced away. Yes, I don’t work from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. That’s the Sabbath, God’s day. Her religious beliefs forbade it unless the person was in the medical profession. They work as volunteers without pay, her mother had told her when she was young.

That may be, but we have a business to run. We expect our employees to work their schedules. Some of the other employees don’t want to work Sundays, but they do when they’re scheduled. By rotating our schedule, everyone has the opportunity to be off on a weekend. The supervisor leaned back in her chair and looked fixedly at Colleen.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited employers from discriminating against individuals because of religious beliefs. But the exception clause regarding undue hardship on an employer and infringing on other employees—causing coworkers to carry the accommodated employee’s share of burdensome work—would surely be brought up in her situation. She never told a prospective employer about her religion, and the need for time off, before she was hired for fear she wouldn't get the job.

She'd been completely open about it when she went for her first job out of high school and had not been hired because she could not work Friday nights and Saturdays. Her mind