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January/February 2008
Volume 2, Issue 2 
ISSN 1935-634X

 
 Love * Betrayal * Fashion * Friends * Romance—Chick lit style  
 

 

Conversation Hearts  Sarah Elizabeth Evans

Even Rose didn't know that there was one Valentine that didn't say just "Happy Valentine's Day! Love, Kate."The outside was like the others, but inside, I had glued a conversation heart. 

 

The Vacation  Maryann McCullough 

This “solo” trip to Cozumel had been his idea, proposed in early January. “I really want you to do this,” he had said with an urgency that had alarmed her.

 

My Prince is Indian  Sue Menon

“Dad!” I wailed. “Can’t we postpone?” I recently agreed to let my parents help me find someone. Little did I know they would come up with someone so soon.

 

A Love Mission  Mirella Castellano

Valentine’s Day is so crap for me; each year is the same old shite… I hate that I have to watch the postman skip my front door and go up to Ursa's, the Scandinavian beauty upstairs..

 

Things to Do  Julie Bliss

“You put me on your to do list?” Martin complained. “And I’m at the bottom!”

Kelly took the pad and pretended to read it...

 

Fiction 

 

 

 

Girl with the Pink Purse  Maryanne Pope

My doctor hands me three little boxes...I stuff the birth control samples into my purse. “I have a question for you.”...“How long can I wait before having a baby?”

 

Dates and Other

Matters of Inconvenience  Brandi Scollins-Mantha

In the fluorescent glow of the Wawa I can only imagine what other people...are saying about me and this state of dress-undress I currently parade the aisles in.  

 

Cold Feet  Elizabeth-Ann Denny

Like most women who had just left their abusive husbands, she was distraught, missing him, crying constantly and considering going back home. I was supposed to be helping her. 

 

How Cassie and I Saved the World...  Windy Lynn Harris

Cassidy Dane is adventurous, outgoing, and (lucky for me) my best friend. What I lack in social skills my friend Cassie makes up for a million times over. 

 

*62  Steven McBrearty

He was praying, praying hard for a call from Meredith Rogers, his dear-departed girlfriend, who had informed him recently she “wanted them both to see other people”... 

 

Glass Slipper 101  Nina Mansfield

“You can always tell by their shoes.” Her mother’s raspy, Camel coated voice echoed...through Allison’s mind as she glanced down sideways at Henry’s dusty, grey loafer...

 

Blissfully  Debra Sennefelder

“Come on, Abby, you’re going to miss Rebecca tossing the bouquet,” my younger cousin, Chloe, calls out as she dashes pass me into the reception.

 

Moving Day  Gary R. Hoffman

...After a bite of sandwich, she opened the box for the first time. Only then she realized it was an old cigar box painted green.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Author Snapshot:  Jane Green 
  • Chick Lit News: 
    •  Lori Culwell, author of Hollywood Carwash reports that Simon & Schuster recently bought the novel and that its edition will be released in 2009.  Lori was recently featured in our author snapshots.  Congratulations Lori!
    • Bestselling author of Conversations with a Fat Girl, Liza Palmer reports that her second novel, Seeing Me Naked was recently released this month.  I haven't read Seeing Me Naked yet, but I will soon, and I'm sure it'll be great.  Stay tuned...  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews

 

 

 

Review of Me and Mr. Darcy  Kelley A. Swan

Forget the handsome prince. Forget the heroic knight on a steed. And definitely forget every jerk she’s dated in the last twelve months...

 

A Review of The Sunday List of Dreams  Katrina Jenkins

Connie Franklin Nixon is retiring. After years of working her fingers to the bone...she can finally say goodbye to the hospital floor she ran with pride and get on with her life... 

 

A Review of My Horizontal Life...  Corey Podell 

What is amazing about Handler’s book is her complete honesty about her sexual history, and what is even better is that she owns it and makes no apologies whatsoever.  

 

Review of The Sleeping Beauty Proposal  Susan J. Illis

Genie Michaels is stunned when her longtime boyfriend, Hugh Spencer, proposes marriage on national television. But not as stunned as she is when he reveals to Genie that she is not his intended.