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Misery and Marlene

A contemporary adult novella
Marlene is twenty-five, single and has only ever wanted two things: to become a Broadway actress, and to escape her redneck upbringing in a suburb of Missouri, or as Marlene calls it, misery.

The only problem? Two little kids depend on her to fill their bellies from the money she makes at a local bar--Marlene's nephews, not to mention her pregnant sister and chain-smoking, good-for-nothin' excuse of a mother.

As Marlene finds solace in a kind but boring man from St. Louis and gets a callback for a prestigious theater performance in the city, it seems that everything in her world is conspiring to force a decision: to pursue a lifelong dream and leave her family behind ... or to shack up with the simpleton for a simple life in misery.
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Ashley R. Carlson is an award-winning author and professional book editor based in Phoenix, Arizona. She provides affordable book editing, ghostwriting, SEO-optimized content creation and self-publishing consulting through her company, Utopia Editing & Ghostwriting Services, LLC in the Phoenix, Scottsdale and Paradise Valley areas and globally. Contact her today to schedule an appointment or for a free sample edit.

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