Zapped!

by Catherine Russell

Bonnie was a healthy, happy 60 year old woman. She was single, her children were grown and busy with their own lives and she was free to make life work on her own terms. She volunteered at various community charities, worked part-time in a little boutique and had a very nice group of dear women friends. Sometimes, she wished she had a partner, a companion but she believed it wasn’t necessary for a satisfying and fulfilling life. Still, there was something missing. She just didn’t know what it was.

ZAP! Bonnie felt the electric current shoot through her arms. It happened a lot. The zapping. She didn’t know why or what it meant but she wondered if anyone else got zapped. Her ex-husband said that he didn’t get zapped. He said that she was crazy. Her brother Dan didn’t get zapped. Maybe she was crazy. She never asked a doctor about it in case he decided she was crazy too. She’d rather not know. She thought it might be stress (even though she didn’t feel stressed) so she decided what she needed was a vacation.

She was about to have the adventure of her life… where all her dreams come true.

197 pages, Paperback

Published October 14, 2025

About the author

Catherine Russell was born in Tacoma, Washington and raised in a small town just south, South Hill, Puyallup. At the time South Hill was a heavily wooded area and far off the beaten path. Growing up she had the forests as her fantasy world along with the wild animals. She lived with her parents and an older sister. There are a few similarities from her own childhood that have carried over in to her first novel, “The Stage”. As a child, she did have a small dog named Toto, whom she would quite frequently roam the woods with. Her childhood home still stands, and is still nestled in the woods even though South Hill has undergone an extreme makeover since she lived there. She enjoyed hours of day dreaming and playing in the woods, which in turn fed her fantasy world of make believe.