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Grinders Corner
by Ferris H. Craig &
Charlene Keel
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Like lambs led to the slaughter, Uptown, a newly divorced English major with panic anxiety disorder and no job skills, Voluptua, an out of work actress, and Mouse, a former child star trying to make a comeback all struggle to make enough tickets to pay the bills. Things get complicated when Uptown falls in love with a customer who happens to be a priest.
In Grinders Corner it was a simpler time, long before gentlemen’s clubs and pole dancers, and it happened in a place where shy, lonely men could talk to women, even dance with them, with no fear of rejection—for about fifteen cents a minute.
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Now for An Excerpt:
The next night,
Voluptua made her appearance at Romanceland.
I didn’t expect to see my lover for a night or two—I had a feeling he
would need time to recover—so I was able to give this girl my complete
attention. Well, almost.
Though Voluptua
was not her real name, it suited her perfectly.
She was bursting out all over with robust voluptuousness in a
polka-dotted micro mini dress that was about two sizes too small. Her tinted black hair was piled high in a
gigantic pouf of tangles, and she had coaxed the sides into loosely formed
braids. Into one of these braids she had
stuck an artificial blue flower. She was
wearing opera hose—the kind with the seam down the back. And some kind of silky blue dancing slippers
that had no backs—only toes—so they made a clacking noise, slapping against her
feet, as she walked. But she didn’t
walk. She floated. Honest!
She’d float by, her shoes clacking softly, her arms out, in a pose like
a tired ballet dancer.
I thought she
was out of her mind.
On Voluptua’s
second night, she showed up looking like a wellendowed Cleopatra. I couldn’t believe my eyes. She had draped an exotic looking necklace
from one side of her head to the other, so that it hung down with the largest
of its many colored stones placed between her eyebrows. And she had extended her black eyeliner about
one inch beyond what seemed reasonable.
Her earrings
dangled to her shoulders and they, too, were comprised of multicolored
beads. Coiled around the upper section
of her arm was a golden snake with ruby red beads for eyes. Her clinging jersey mini dress was printed
with large brown leopard spots.
Underneath all this dubious splendor she was wearing a black leotard—you
know, the kind professional dancers wear.
Apropos of the Egyptian motif, she had used bronze makeup on her face
and her lipstick was redder than red.
And it wasn’t even Halloween!
The braids and
the artificial blue flower of the night before were gone. Protruding from the mass of tangles, which
were still there, was what appeared to be a long hairpiece. It was all combed to one side so that it hung
over her shoulder and down over one of her more than ample breasts. Wow, I thought, will she get tickets! Even our boss, Dirty Dick, was staring down
at her from his dais-like desk.
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About the Author:
Ferris Craig
is a professional dancer, choreographer, actor and writer. Her credits include The
Dean Martin Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Honeymooners, The
Golden Girls and many TV commercials. In the 1970s she performed with The
Hollywood Hoofers in Las Vegas, later establishing The Burbank Academy of
Performing Arts where she taught dance and acting. More recently, she
choreographed and performed for The Broadway Seniorettes, and with Recycled
Teenagers (dancers over 50). Currently she lives in Southern California with
her three delightful dogs. Connect with Ferris on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecricketdance
Charlene Keel has
written over a dozen novels and how-to books. Shadow Train, the final
installment of her YA supernatural trilogy, won a Paranormal Romance Guild
Reviewer’s Choice Award, and The Congressman’s Wife (for Red Sky
Presents) is getting rave reviews. Her new blended-genre novel, Lost
Treasures of the Heart, was released in November, 2016.
Keel has also worked as
editor for international magazines, including Playgirl, For the Bride and
Black Elegance. She says the most
fun she’s had as an editor (so far) was at Spice, a fanzine featuring
rap, R&B, soul and gospel music. During her time there, she enjoyed going
to parties for such notables as Puff Daddy, having lunch with Gloria Gaynor and
attending a pasta dinner where Mariah Carey did the cooking.
Keel’s editorial
assignments include The Health of Nations, a book on political
philosophy, and That Nation Might Live, a moving tribute to Sarah Bush
Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s stepmother. Her TV credits include Fantasy Island
and Days of Our Lives, and her book, Rituals, was the basis for
the first made-for-syndication soap opera. She also produced (for Romantic
Times) the first annual Mr. Romance Cover Model Pageant.
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