A great short story.
Authors will do anything to become famous.
Written by Vonda Norwood
Cover by KSP_PROJECTS
Seven weather weary authors trudge the wilds of West Florida in search of literary fame, while an injured member of the US Army Special Forces is hot on their trail, determined to force his wife to eat a cheeseburger.
CHAPTER ONE
Glittering Sales Publishing is the name on the window of a corner building at a strip mall in Miami, Florida. Behind its glass door is a small, square space where Irma Gutierrez, clutching a red folder on her lap, sits in front of a dark brown, bureau-style desk, and across from the head publisher, sixty-year-old, Beatrice Campbell, who is staring at her tan blouse. Beatrice buttons its top button. Her shoulder-length, blond wig slides, inching over her forehead. “Eighty-nine-dollars and it won’t stay put.”
Irma drops her stare to a cellphone…
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