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"Free Pecan Pie and Other Chick Stories"

What's a chick story? It's a story with no drugs, bombs, or spies who have numbers instead of names. And clean. It's gotta be clean. Spend some time with "Free Pecan Pie," and its other stories and shorts like "Elvis Has Left the Building."..and is "Living in My Computer," "Harpy and Julianne's War of the Roses," and "Gets Tickled and the Fish Trap," and have a smile on me.

I balanced out the short stories with some commentaries so we won't forget where we've been...and how far we have to go.

If you're looking for the answer to world peace,...

Boogie, Boots, & Cherry Pie Janelle Meraz Hooper When the great guy that Lily meets at her company's St. Patrick's Day party takes her home he discovers she lives at The Zoo, an apartment building that caters to tenants who have exotic pets. Unfortunately, one of the pets is missing and when Mike drops her off the first thing he sees is a sign on the front door: Please Don't Let Out The Snake While Lily is trying to figure out how Boogie, a big boa constrictor, is getting into her apartment, Mike, her new boyfriend, has his own problems. He's a jewelry designer who's in danger of defaulting...

Mary, in her late thirties, is starting over with her daughter, Kate. Unimpressed with the single men she has met, she is resisting the dating scene. She tells her friend, Roxanne, she doesn't need a man. What she needs is fiscal stability. When her ex-brother-in-law makes a play for her, Mary is conflicted. Mark, a Montana Park Ranger, is a hunk, but getting involved with him will also mean becoming a part of her ex-husband's family again. Mary, a writer, isn't happy about spending the rest of her life struggling to keep up with the Bergstroms who are rich, driven, and well-established. When...

"Custer and His Naked Ladies "

by Janelle Meraz Hooper

When her husband unexpectedly dumps her, Glory boards an Oklahoma-bound plane at the Sea-Tac Airport. On her way to the ticket counter, she takes the framed photo of her husband out of her gym bag and dumps it into the nearest trash bin-frame and all. She has wasted too many years on a man who doesn't want her, and her biological clock is beginning to pound like a powwow drum.

Part Hispanic, part Anglo, and raised on the reservation, Glory hopes that by going back to her roots she'll discover who she is, but her home is in...