Choose Jail

By Amy C. Siebert

A fictional account of a Will Contest, Catfishing, and Sibling Ribalry in Ohio that result in jail being the best choice available for the a private citizen named Amy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Amy C. Siebert
• Release date: Aug 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781393480877

Book preview

CHAPTER 1 

Amy never knew how to start a book about a man named Eric. Now, that doesn’t sound exciting, or a must read. Yet have you ever been accused of stealing $385,000 of your own money when in fact you were catfished??

Well, that is what happened with Eric. You see, Amy knew him first as Scott McDowell, a widow, with a young daughter, and he seemed kind, ok? You got me? When your husband, father, and mother die suddenly than you might be vulnerable to finding someone online, also. And Amy knows that you think that you know where she is going with this, . . . yet she was and she was not catfished. And what eerily pops into one’s mind is that, You never know who you are talking to on the other end of a text or many, many texts. It can take you a long time to figure out that you have been had."

Oh, it’s not so much the loss of major money, but the depth of embarrassment that she felt when she went to the Fort Wayne Airport to meet Scott McDowell as he returned from an Engineering project in Malaysia. And the Fort Wayne Police had to tell her that, Scott McDowell did not have a Boarding Pass, a Passport, and he was just made-up to trick her out of her money. Amy never wanted to believe that Scott McDowell was anything but real, and that he (Scott) loved her. She cherished that a man besides her Dad, loved her.

That is what Amy felt that Scott McDowell did for her. It was finally like someone out there - was for her. You see, she had never wanted to be loved by a man. You see, if Amy fell in love with some man, then she could no longer hold the power in the relationship. As it was, she could detach from the relationship if she needed to regain her power. And it would not hurt so bad if, ultimately, she got hurt or rejected. (Amy never worried about getting hurt, and she has had a lot less trouble with men, than other women.)

Unfortunately, when you get told that all your plans and your future are dead. Crash and burn – that does lead to a lot of anxiety in the future. Anxiety never helps you sort out truth from lies in a new relationship down the road in life. Amy cared about what she learned, and the extreme pain did not bother her. Usually, when a painful life lesson is learned – one does not care about the wisdom obtained. Not at all.

But Amy was different. I am telling you she was different. It is like she felt that her mind was wired a lot differently than - well-everybody else. (I don’t mean a mental illness. Of course, you probably didn’t take it that way.) Amy just liked to cover her bases and explain her comments. Because so often she had been misunderstood in life.

You know, it is kind of like, The nice man finishing last-thing. When you are misunderstood, sometimes explaining oneself is not enough. You still get misunderstood and forced to apologize. Therefore, Amy was used to being around controlling people – one person in particular – Trina.

Trina, her sis and Mark, her bro would never understand wiring money to a foreign country. That is not the reason Amy wired money to someone she had never met in person – Scott McDowell. She never wanted to admit to herself that well, she didn’t KNOW Scott McDowell. For her, it made life fun to get all the kudos and thanks from Scott.

And the things that he said about Amy were so true. It is like he knew her instead of catfishing her. At 41, she deserved to hear the words not of flattery but deep, and beautiful poetry. Amy did like to think that her love wrapped all the way around the world and touched Scott in Malaysia.

Isn’t that the nicest thing to say? Why can’t men