Dead Line

by Pat Dennis

Award-winning author Pat Dennis tackles sibling rivalry in her dark yet funny short story Dead Line. Kate’s lifelong competition with her overachieving and perpetually perky sister Puck, is about to come to an end. Not only was Puck the family favorite, now she’s constantly given a pass for bad behavior by Kate’s tolerant husband. Kate’s about to discover just why her husband is so forgiving of the woman who ruined her life. Dead Line was originally published in Anne Frasier’s Deadly Treats from Nodin Press, 2011. Pat is the author of Hotdish to Die For, a collection of six mystery short stories and 18 hotdish recipes. Her fiction and humor have been published in Woman's World, Minnesota Monthly, The Pioneer Press, Sun Current Newspapers, Hartford Courant Journal, Resort To Murder, Silence of the Loons, Anne Frasier's Deadly Treats, Once Upon A Crime Anthology, Who Died in Here?, Hotdish Haiku, Writes of Spring, and Sixteen Tales of Murder, Mayhem and Malice. She is in high-demand as a humorist entertaining at corporate and special events. Her client list includes Fortune 500 companies such as 3M and Delta Airlines. She's appeared with Phyliss Diller, David Brenner, Tommy Chong, and Lewis Black.

8 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 10, 2012