I love to carry around my own work of art created with love.
Single mom and gourmet cat food
entrepreneur Colbie Summers thought she’d escaped her tiny California hometown
forever. But when her father needs her, she packs up her adolescent son, their
finicky feline, Trouble, and her budding business. She knows change is
tough—but she doesn’t expect it to be murder . . .
A
chicken rang the doorbell.
I
stood in the open doorway, a little dumbfounded, and stared down at the beige
bird with a mop of floppy feathers on its head that looked like a hat. The kind
of hat women wore as a half joke to opening day at the horse races. How could
it even see through that thing? And did it really just ring the doorbell?
Braving
the mid-morning heat of Sunnyside, California, inland from downtown San Diego
by twenty miles and what felt like twenty degrees hotter, I stuck my head out
and looked up and down my dad’s street. No teens were hanging around, giggling
over their prank.
The
chicken ruffled its whole body as if to say, “Yes, it was me.” The you idiot
was implied by the way it poked his beak toward me and then scratched its feet
on the wooden porch floor.
“Right.”
I spoke out loud. To a chicken. I had to get out of the house more.
I’d
been up since four in the morning, grinding various chicken parts and cooking
them for my organic cat food business and I was already tired. Maybe this was a
poultry hallucination brought on by exhaustion. Or induced by guilt.
Maybe
this was the king of the chicken underworld, seeking retribution for what was
going on in my kitchen.
I
shook my head. I had to stop reading so many of those horror novels my
blood-thirsty twelve-year-old son, Elliott, couldn’t get enough of.
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I love the handbag, Kathy. I can't wait to go to the site and see what else the designer does.
8 comments:
Love the cat on the cover. The story sounds amazing. I wish you all the best!
Thank you for visiting, Melissa!
Thanks Melissa! And thanks to Vicki for having me as a guest!
Always welcomed!
"A Gourmet Cat Mystery" -- I love it!
The cat cover is fun!
Beautiful handbag and intriguing novel. Best of luck with sales, Kathy :)
Angela and Joanne,
Thanks so much!
Kathy
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