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The Good{Expat}Life

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Reads 852
Votes 41
Parts 14
Time 2h 44m

contemporary expat short stories

The Good{Expat}Life is a series of vignettes that can be read as complete short stories or as a whole. Penny and George have embarked on a new life; not only as man and wife (both second timers) but in a new country. When their business goes to the wall they have to make difficult decisions about their retirement plans for moving to Italy where they had invested in an old crumbling property. After much hair pulling, wine drinking and discussions with their trusted friends, Daphne and Roger, they decide to move, lock stock and barrel. The stories are a humorous take on the issues of moving abroad with very little in the back pocket as well as the everyday complications of another language, culture and systems. Penny and George bumble along knocking into the odd expat here and there, collecting a family of stray animals and trying hard to cultivate green fingers to keep the wolf from the door.

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A Pack of Misfits: Our lives by LokiCrimsonHeart

"Looking back on the events of the past year, I can only really say two official things. Some days I hate it, some days I do not and I would never trade this for the world. No, not even Fenrir, no matter how much that surprises me. A new day's dawning, just over the horizon. Just keep looking and I know that you will find one. Goodnight. ~ Loki Draken." Snippets from the Pack's life, from the New year following Fenrir joining them to the very end...or not. New people turn up, old people as well, randomness happens and they have fun all-round. Just a few technically unrelated one-shots from the Pack's life. NOTE: Everything (Read; all the stories) are now undergoing some serious editing, so when you see that update, don't ignore it, it could be important information that you will be lost without. Like for example; every hint towards Loki's past. Sequel to 'A Pack of Misfits.' Book two in the A Pack of Misfits 'series. Sequel to this one up on my profile (APoM: A Tale of Two Times, or the other one, APoM: Something else Entirely, both are fine to read, but AToTT ties in more directly with this book)

Safe Haven by SaraApple

After they met as kids, they became best friends, and then they became lovers. However, Bo's parents didn't approve of the idea of a big-time, serious-about-school-and-work, New Yorker dating a small-town, not-so-serious girl from Montana. After bribing Bo to break up with Rosabelle Sage, the two friends part ways, thinking they'll never see each other again. Bo graduates college and becomes a writer, exploring different places and interviewing people to keep the story lively and more interesting. He moves to live with his grandparents and help them keep up with the farm and finds out about a sanctuary for wild animals just outside of town. Wanting to write something new, he visits the sanctuary, hoping to speak with the owner only to find out that its Rosabelle Sage. She has become more of a wordly girl, traveling as much as she could. She hadn't finished college, but she had traveled to every country from the United States to Japan, down to Antarctica, and north to Russia. Through her travels, she stumbled into some trouble and was now hiding from the man that wanted her dead for knowing too much. The problem is, she's not sure what information she knows that he doesn't want anybody to know. That ignorance just might be the death of her.

Weigh Out Way-In by JASaak

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The Vipers Temptation | Completed by creativemindxo

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Finding Hope {Editing} by ShelbyGodfrey

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