“Consider Lily” is available on Amazon. This short story is based on an entry to the 2015 San Jose Short Film Festival. The original short was created for the 72-hour film race and was the only animated film entry.
Tameka’s got problems. A corpse that needs cleaning, a daughter up to no good, and she’s losing her mind.
This is the third book in the Bag of Money series.
“Work hard for me and when I die, you’ll get $10,000.00,” the man said.
In Arkansas, the lie is easy to see, but in Las Vegas, so far removed from cotton fields and backwoods Jim Crow, the lie is less obvious.
Still, Cole was a fool who should have known better.
When the family refuses to pay, Cole and his friends decide to trash the old man’s house. What they find is a whole lot of money and a whole mess of trouble.
Kentucky is a woman on the back end of her life.
She’s lived with so little for so long; poverty is all she can smell. Its scent is pregnant with the funk of urine, spoiled food, and human misery.
One night, she finds something that could remove the stench for a long time. Does she do the good thing, the right thing, or the thing that allows her to have just a little bit of fun in a lifetime of not enough?