Rocky Start (ROCKY START #1) by Jennifer Crusie EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jennifer Crusie
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On day three of what was shaping up to be the second worst week of
my life, I was trying to glue a blank doll’s head (I’d stripped off all its
paint with acetone) to a very old bottle of paregoric (a medicine made
of alcohol, honey, and opium, which was sounding pretty good to me right
then) when somebody rattled the front door to the secondhand shop where I
worked. I thought the CLOSED sign on the front door pretty clearly
communicated that we weren’t open, but this was Rocky Start. Not a lot of
people obedient to signs here. I didn’t look up as I was focused on putting
that head on that bottle. Something I could control.
I was standing behind the old marble-topped counter, trying to be
Upbeat and Positive About Life, but it wasn’t working. I’d put Bob
Marley’s “Three Little Birds” on the iPod because that always started the
day right, but today . . . just no. So I’d switched over to Lenka’s “Trouble is
a Friend” because that had an aura of plausibility. We were in big trouble,
but maybe that would turn out to be a good thing . . .
No. No, it wouldn’t. My boss and landlord had died two days ago, my
future was unknown which meant my daughter’s future was also unknown,
and I just wasn’t in the mood to cheerfully sell junk.
The door rattled again.
Ozzie had been a real character, aka an irreplaceable pain in the ass and
a great guy. The weather-beaten sign out front said “Oddities. Mostly Old
Junk Nothing You Want,” and I’d tried to get Ozzie to get rid of the second
line for nineteen years, but no luck. Ozzie hadn’t been a fan of customers. I
did take down the sign that said
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