Dare She Stay — Chapter 1

She can’t decide if he’s her fanciful hero or worst nightmare

Lynda Coker
Fiction for the Heart by Lynda Coker
8 min readAug 30, 2021

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Make My Man Texas-Sized: The Allure of the Alpha Male…

Stormee gawked at the current document title on her laptop screen and muttered to herself.

“What cliff have I jumped off this time?”

She shook her head and continued the interrogation in silence. Why hadn’t she kept her big mouth shut? This interview assignment would be someone else’s headache if she’d just taken a moment to ask what the project entailed before volunteering.

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She swiveled her chair and gazed out the tiny window in her office cubicle. The placement of her working space next to the outer wall gave her a coveted view of the outside world. The multicolored Zinnias skirting the walkway that wound itself around her upscale office building gave reason for hope. If they could bloom and thrive despite Houston’s triple-digit temperature, surely she could be as tenacious with this assignment.

The pile of unopened boxes stacked under the window aroused more frustration accompanied by a long sigh. Since starting…

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Lynda Coker
Fiction for the Heart by Lynda Coker

I write about life, fictional worlds, and anything that catches my interest. I also design and create with textiles. Icky Chic Desings on Etsy