Twelve Steps to a Long and Fulfilling Death by Sarah Smith EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Sarah Smith
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If Stacey had known she was going to die on Friday night she might have
done things differently. For starters, she wouldn’t have spent the morning
stuck in traffic for a hair appointment, even if the resulting new do had
lived up to expectations. (Stacey attributed her lifelong disappointment with
hairdressers to an early horror cut at age seven. Her mother, fed up with
removing nits on a never-ending cycle of Rid shampoo and fine-tooth metal
combing, decided Stacey would suit a short Mia Farrow style.
The
outcome, boy cut with wonky fringe, caused Stacey to run from the
hairdressers screaming that she hated everyone in the entire world. Not one
to let bad behaviour go unchecked, her mother frog-marched Stacey back to
apologise to the petulant third-year apprentice, even though all would agree
it was never going to make the pages of Hairdressing Monthly.)
Later that day, the dry-cleaning that urgently needed picking up could
have stayed in its flimsy plastic sheaf on the rotating industrial hanger at
Chow’s. The pointless phone call to her mother – filled with implicit
criticism of Stacey for not finishing college, or siding with her father over
the divorce – would never have been made. And the texts and emails from
friends, real estate agents, gyms and the bank (warning of credit limits
reached), the invitation to the high school reunion, would have remained
unread nor replied to. Stacey wouldn’t have gotten up on the wrong side of
bed and snapped at Liam for taking too long in the shower or eating the last
of the gluten-free muesli which he claimed not to like. She wouldn’t have
questioned if they were really suited or why they ever got together in the
first place when they couldn’t even work out these few basic things. And
she would never have mentioned Emily.
Emily Jackson worked with Liam. Bright, vivacious and ‘open’
(according to her dating profile; Stacey had checked), Emily came
recommended. Her job as a business consultant gave Emily Jackson free
rein to come and go in Liam’s sports and leisure business. She was prone to
making unexpected phone calls with exciting forecasts on future profit
projections; Liam’s voice always elevated slightly in response, a clear
indicator that he was pleased to hear from her.
Open – to what exactly? If
ever a word was open to interpretation, it was that one, and yet it gave the
bearer an allure, suggesting broad-mindedness, a promise never to be dull.
Open to new and daring adventures, open to people of all race and religions,
open to same-sex marriage, open to the exotic, the strange, the wonderful.
Open to sleeping with someone else’s fiancé?
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