The Guy Not Taken
Stories
Chapter One
Marlie Davidow was not the kind of woman who went looking for trouble. But
one Friday night in September, thanks to her own curiosity and the wonders
of the Internet, trouble found her.
Her brother Jason and his bride-to-be were registered on
WeddingWishes. Marlie, housebound with a six-month-old, did all her
shopping online, sitting on the beige slipcovered couch where she spent
most of her time nursing her baby, or rocking her baby, or trying to get
her baby to stop crying. So, on that fateful Friday night after Zeke had
finally succumbed to sleep, she wiped the fermented pureed pears off her
shirt, set her laptop on the sofa's arm, and pointed and clicked her way
through the purchase of a two-hundred-dollar knife set. As she hit
"complete order," she wondered about the propriety and potential bad mojo
of sending the happy couple knives for their wedding. Too late, she
thought, and rubbed her eyes. It was nine o'clock - a time, prebaby, when
a night might just be getting started - but Drew was still at work, and
she was as whipped as if she'd r ... read full excerpt from The Guy Not Taken: Stories ebook
