For One Moment of Ecstacy

By Suzann Dodd

It was during World War II, when most of the men were away.   It was during World War II when a plain, ignorable woman just once wanted to know what it was like to feel love and desire.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Jul 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9783743823754

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Chapter One

The Wednesday Before

It happened when she saw the dress.

She was coming from the fruit store, passing Mona’s Dresses, a store she’d never entered. There was no reason. She had clothes, yes, old, yes worn, but considering she only went to work or church, why waste money on a dress when there were wearable things in her closet?

The dress was a giddy sequined thing a woman like her would never wear. Yet, it hung in the window, as if summoning her. She stopped, stepped a bit closer. Her eyes rolled over the dress, and touched the tag; the price was a ridiculously low. She stared, assuming she misread, yet the number was an unmistakable $14.50.

Was there something wrong with it? Her