Smoothie Operator

Love by the Books #1

by Ruby Grandin

Would you have the courage to ask a woman out, even if you weren't sure she was gay?

Abby Jennings feels a little out of her element going back to school to become a librarian: she’s older than her fellow classmates and the world seems to move a heck of a lot faster than it used to. But between classes, the busy college café offers an unexpected haven in the form of delicious smoothies…and smiles from the woman behind the smoothie counter.

Jane is absolutely gorgeous, and is always incredibly nice to Abby, but she’s supposed to be nice, isn’t she? That’s her job. But when Jane starts to give Abby free smoothies, Abby wonders if she’s interpreting the signals correctly: does Jane actually like her?

“Smoothie Operator” is a sweet, funny short story, the first in the “Library Schooled” series, about the adventures of two women falling in love. It is approximately 5,000 words long (about an hour of reading or so).

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First published September 19, 2013

About the author

Hello dear reader, I’m Ruby and I’m so excited to share my stories with you. I’ve been writing stories since forever. My first was about a magical talking cat who had these crazy adventures. My stories don’t have talking cats anymore, but I still love an adventure.

When I was in college, I courted this amazing girl in college by dragging her on these crazy hikes through the woods on the edge of campus. Climbing over logs was really just an excuse to have to hold her hand and help her over obstacles. More than ten years later we recently celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary and the crazy adventures have just kept getting bigger and better.

We live in a little white house surrounded by trees, filled with cats, wool, and loose leaf tea. My passions in life are my wife, my knitting, and my writing. I daydream about having a little hobby farm with a few sheep and a huge vegetable garden.

I’m really excited to be working with Rose + Star Press, and I’m grateful to them for giving me the gentle nudge that it took to get me to start sharing my work. I hope that you enjoy reading my stories as much as I enjoy writing them.