by Jeff Fleischer
Excited to report a third piece in the Saturday Evening Post, which is known for publishing many of my favorite writers. Having already published “Granddad’s Ballgame” and “The Querulous Nightingale,” it has now published “The Oracle’s Curse.”
An excerpt:
Just five seconds earlier, she had seemed too good to be true. He should have known there was something a little off, just waiting to reveal itself.
“Come on, it’ll be fun. I’ll pay for it,” Karyn said while the two of them waited for their dessert.
“You don’t really believe in all that?” Larry replied, trying to hedge his tone between faux worry and gentle kidding. “Do you?”
Larry Pemberton really liked this girl. As a guy who always had standards a little too high for his side of the ledger, he didn’t find many women he wanted to see the socially accepted three times. Through two dates, Karyn had seemed like a good match. She was smart, accomplished, beautiful … And, it turned out, a believer in mystical powers.
