Summer Lightning by Wendy Corsi Staub EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Wendy Corsi Staub
- Language: English
- Genre:Paranormal & Urban Fantasy
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It all started on her seventeenth birthday.
That was when Melissa Loring’s parents bought her the computer and
printer.
Melissa couldn’t believe it. All she could do was sit and stare at the
gigantic boxes, red-and-yellow wrapping paper still crumpled around their
bottoms. Her parents stood next to her, smiling, waiting for her to say
something.
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“Well?” prodded her mother. “Don’t you like it?”
“Like it? I love it!” Melissa exclaimed, jumping up to hug both her
parents. “I’ve been hinting around for this for months! How did you
manage to hide it from me? How did—can we afford it?”
Already guilt was seeping in. Melissa knew the back steps needed to be
repaired and the house needed repainting, and her thirteen-year- old sister
Tracy was going to need braces, and her brother Jason, who was away at
college, had to buy his books for the semester….
Her parents looked at each other meaningfully, then smiled at her. “You
only have one seventeenth birthday,” her dad said, giving her shoulder a
firm pat.
“And we know you’ll put it to good use, Melissa,” her mother added,
brushing a strand of long hair away from her daughter’s eyes.
Melissa had wanted to become a writer for as long as she could
remember. According to her mother, she was making up stories and telling
them to her dolls and anyone else who would listen almost as soon as she
learned how to talk.
Over the past summer she had taken a special creative writing workshop
at the community college up the coast, and ever since then, she’d been
writing every day, using her grandfather’s old manual typewriter. But the
keys had started sticking more than they usually did, making every word a
chore to put on paper.
Aside from the fact that her mother and father had spent hundreds of
dollars on the new equipment, Melissa was touched because the gift meant
that they took her seriously. They believed that she was going to become a
writer.
“You’re sure going to be able to crank out your short stories on this
thing, Mel.” Her boyfriend, Tripp, was inspecting the list of features printed
on the side of the computer box. “This model’s really up-to-date.”
Melissa nodded. She wished he wouldn’t call her Mel. It made her think
of the fat, balding male character on an old sitcom she used to watch. She’d
asked Tripp repeatedly to call her by her full name, and he’d promised to
try, but it hadn’t done much good. She was still Mel to him, and most likely
always would be.
That’s all right, she told herself, as she always did. Tripp was a great
boyfriend, and that more than made up for being called Mel. Besides, there
were probably things about her that annoyed him, too. Like, she wasn’t
crazy about sports, and he was an athlete from the word go. But she’d
promised to try to get more interested in them, and this past summer she’
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