Book 24 of the 2025 Read Your Hoard Challenge
I should state up front that Sarah Pratt is a friendly acquaintance of mine. She is the dungeon master of my mystery book club and we both attend a local writers conference each August. I had heard her read from this work on two occasions and bought it on that basis. I had the advantage of hearing her voice in my mind's ear as I read Poppy. Humour is a very personal taste, but I understand and appreciate Sarah's.
Dana is a pharmacist, but that seems to be secondary to her gravitational attraction for eccentric people. It soon becomes apparent that she has oddities of her own. Sarah produces a varied assortment of characters. Despite the brevity of this novella, I found them well described. There's Ben, the hypochondriac who frequents Dana's pharmacy. Then we meet Louise with a prosthetic foot and a belligerent attitude. And Porky, so called because he wears a tee shirt but no pants. He a nudist but sensitive about his belly. Eventually we meet Constable Ted Partridge who may complicate life for all of them.
As I said, Dana has her own kinks. She haunts a hookup app for serial one night stands. As soon as the deed is done, she barely has time to get dressed before she is compelled to get away. The descriptions of her carnal encounters were amusing, to say the least.
At one of the readings that I attended, Sarah told us a bit about the dream that started this writing project. I wish my subconscious was half so creative or that I could remember my dreams at all. Dream on, Sarah!
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