MIDNIGHT
SUPPER AT THE RISE AND SHINE
by
Tara
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BLURB:
Bad
luck and worse choices—that’s Irene. She’s been a widow half
her life and now splits her time between waitressing at the Rise and
Shine café and singing in an oldies cover band. And she’s having
an affair with a married man—something that even her eclectic,
super liberal family can’t condone.
She’d be the first one to admit she has faults, but she’s not a bigot. The genetic pool in her nuclear family spans the globe. And it’s not that she’s prejudiced against people with disabilities but that doctors and wheelchairs give her the heebie-jeebies. So when a cute guy in a chair keeps showing up in the restaurant, she’s clumsy, awkward and strangely drawn. Can Irene let go of the past or is she too emotionally broken to find a future worth the risk?
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EXCERPT:
The
restaurant buzzed with conversation and the familiar clank of
silverware on plates. Movement near the front made me glance over. A
massive, shaggy-haired creature stared up at me from under table one.
My heart pounded. It looked like a fucking bear. I screamed. Everyone
in the restaurant turned to look.
Adam
trotted over, his face aflame. “Mom, get a grip.”
As I
moved toward the table, I pointed to the bear and scowled at the guy
sitting beside it. “What the fuck is that?”
He
looked up at me, a man about my age, who had the most amazing blue
eyes. “Um, it’s a dog, ma’am. A Newfoundland. He’s very
civilized. He’s a—”
“You
can’t have a dog in here,” I shouted as he finished “—service
dog.”
That’s
when I noticed the bear’s blue backpack.
“Shit.
Oh, I’m so sorry…” Great. Now I was yelling at the disabled. I
moved to get out of the way of the huge dog. Something jabbed into my
hip, and the guy with the great eyes jerked sideways. He clutched the
table and swore.
I looked
down and saw the wheelchair I’d just bumped into—unobtrusive,
low-slung, a nice red that blended in with our décor.
“Sorry.”
I grabbed the handle to straighten it back out for him.
“Don’t!”
he barked.
I backed
away, mortified. Adam glared at me. Someone put a hand on my
shoulder.
Edward
smiled down at me. “I see you’ve met my friend, Mark Redfield.
Mark, this is Irene, the mother of our charming server. She’s quite
pleasant most of the time. Maybe you could bring us some pie?”
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Tara
Woolpy is the author of The Lacland series, loosely linked novels set
in the fictional upper midwestern town of Lacland, including
Releasing Gillian's Wolves, Raising Wild Ginger and Midnight Supper
at the Rise and Shine. Tara earned her bachelor’s degree in English
Literature from Whitworth College after which she spent a year at the
Women Writers Center in Cazenovia, New York. While pursuing her
writing career she paid the rent through an astonishing number of
jobs—she’s been a waitress, a shop owner, a retail clerk, a
half-way house counselor and a commercial diver. Eventually, she took
a midlife hiatus from writing to become an aquatic scientist. As such
she also holds a Masters degree from Oregon State University and a
Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now she teaches
online for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and has come back to
writing fiction with new passion and wonder at the long, serpentine
beauty of life. In addition to the novels, her work has appeared in
Focus, Corymb, Kalliope, Alligator Juniper and the anthology The
Things that Divide Us from Seal Press.
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