A fabulous e-book short story from best-selling author Trisha Ashley. Professional cake-maker Kate doesn't have time for a man in her life, especially a boorish, sports-mad one like Wes. He's definitely not her type.But at her best friends wedding, when one crisis follows another, Kate begins to won
A Piece of Cake
โ Scribed by Cupcake Brown
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 345 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Cupcake Brown woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and called her aunt Lori. "Lori, my momma's dead."
Here is the threshold of a hell for young Cupcake. Rather than being allowed to live with the man she believed to be her father--who turns out to have been her stepfather--she is forced into a foster home where the kids were terrorized, the refrigerator padlocked, and Cupcake sexually abused. She eventually fled the house, only to find herself wandering from misadventure to misadventure in the "system," while also developing a massive appetite for drugs and alcohol, an appetite she paid for by turning tricks. She settled down in Los Angeles and found a home in the Crips, where...
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