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    The Psychic and the Damsel in Distress
    The Psychic and the Damsel in Distress
    The Psychic and the Damsel in Distress
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    The Psychic and the Damsel in Distress

    By Q. Kelly

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    Telah Costner has enlisted the help of psychic after psychic in a quest to find her missing daughter, Claire. Dani is the latest psychic, and Telah is hopeful because she senses something different about Dani.

    To Dani, however, Telah and Claire are just two faces in a sea of clients and missing people. Dani doesn’t believe in psychics and never has. She and her sister Kate have perfected a scam in which money is the only thing that matters. That is, until weird things start happening to Dani.

    This short story is about 9,000 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQ. Kelly
    Release dateOct 3, 2014
    ISBN9781310647772
    The Psychic and the Damsel in Distress
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    Q. Kelly

    I live in Washington state, where I am a writer and an editor. I also have a master's degree in deaf education. In my free time, I hike and savor frappuccinos.Fact One: I like corny jokes. If you have any good ones, send them my way!Fact Two: My favorite color is purple, but my writing is gray. Life is not black and white. I often write about issues and characters where there is no "right" answer.Fact Three: I'm weird. I like being weird.Email me at yllek_q@yahoo.com. I'd love to hear from you.Check out my blogs at qkelly.wordpress.com and qkelly.blogspot.com.

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    • 3/5
      A short story well written and entertaining. A grieving mother has been going to several psychics without much success. Then she meets Dani. You must read the story to find out what happens. I am not much into short stories but got this one free.

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    The Psychic and the Damsel in Distress - Q. Kelly

    THE PSYCHIC

    AND THE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS

    Q. Kelly

    © 2014 Smashwords Edition

    Table of Contents

    Blurb

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Check These Out

    Acknowledgements

    Blurb

    Telah Costner has enlisted the help of psychic after psychic in a quest to find her missing daughter, Claire. Dani is the latest psychic, and Telah is hopeful because she senses something different about Dani.

    To Dani, however, Telah and Claire are just two faces in a sea of clients and missing people. Dani doesn’t believe in psychics and never has. She and her sister Kate have perfected a scam in which money is the only thing that matters. That is, until weird things start happening to Dani.

    This short story is about 9,000 words.

    Chapter One

    The first psychic seemed promising. Telah liked her very much. Miss Theo was quiet, serious, unsmiling. Dedicated. She knew what she was doing. But a car hit and killed her. Telah wondered if Miss Theo saw it coming.

    Telah hated the next psychic. Merry had been loud and disrespectful after the first few sessions. She said Claire was dead, but Telah knew Claire wasn’t dead. She felt it in her bones, in her gut, in every fiber of her being. Claire was alive and needed her mother. Telah didn’t waste much time with Merry.

    Number three had been better. The fact he was a man didn’t put Telah off. She’d never heard of a male psychic, but so what? All that mattered was finding her daughter.

    The man called himself Robert Joe, and he was like Miss Theo: quiet, expressionless, driven. Telah’s cause became his, and finding Claire obsessed his life much like it did Telah’s. Then came the day when, his face gaunt, his eyes black and unreadable, he stared Telah down from across the table. I’m sorry, he said. I can’t do this anymore. I sense that Claire is dead.

    Telah left immediately, and now she was about to meet a prospective number four. She already knew a bit about the psychic. She had read about Dani in the newspaper, how Dani helped the police find a missing fourteen-year-old girl. Telah didn’t care that Dani charged an arm and a leg. Finding Claire mattered—money did not.

    So it was that Telah gathered in her breath and knocked on Dani’s elegant Georgetown townhouse a few blocks from the Potomac River. Telah glanced back at the gleaming BMW parked at the curb, and a candle of happiness flickered inside her. A psychic with money meant she produced results. Genuine results. The other three hadn’t lived like this Dani. Dani would be different, Telah knew in her gut. Dani would find Claire.

    **

    Telah wasted no time getting down to business. She gave

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