The Exotics: Tigerlilly

by De Kenyon

After Rachael’s friend doesn’t return on the first day of second grade, she asks her mother to find her new address so they can be pen pals. But Rachael’s mother can’t find Brenna’s family anywhere: it’s like they were erased. And it’s a lot like what happened to her mother’s friend Lilly in second grade...except that Lilly is dead, and her mother won’t talk about it. Rachael’s mother has secrets...but Rachael’s going to find out.

24 pages, ebook

First published December 1, 2011

About the author

De Kenyon is a writer and mom who lives near Denver, Colorado, in kind of a boring suburb, where she passes out horror books for kids every Halloween and has shelves full of weird crystals and skulls and one of those machines that you have to put in fifty cents every time you want candy. If you don’t want your black jellybeans, she does. The three neighbor kids next door think she might be a witch. She’s not a witch, but she keeps a scythe in the back yard just in case. She writes The Exotics series and weird short stories for kids. Her first short story collection is Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion & Other Stories.

Reviews

[Elizabeth Barone · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an awesome introduction to the first Exotics book, and we get a couple tidbits we didn't get in the book. It doesn't change the story, though, so it also works well as a standalone. I like that, once again, Kenyon's young characters are not shielded from the bad things in life, but also make their own light in the dark.

[ஐ Katya (Book Queen)ஐ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Don't bother! It's one chapter of a story written for 8 year olds, but it leaves everything hanging and you have to them buy the book to find out the rest. It might say it's a short story, but it doesn't have an ending. To find out what happens, you have to buy the next story.

So pointless!
It's given away free on Amazon, Smashwords and somewhere else.