When Cellphones Go Crazy

What bridges would you burn to meet the girl of your dreams? In a cellphone obsessed world, Avery Ward is about to find out the answer to that for himself. Download my July 2015 e-book for free at any of these retailers. Don’t forget to leave a comment here or a review wherever you downloaded it from. Thanks.

Note: This book has been updated and replaced by the title When Cellphones Make Us Crazy. Consider getting that version instead. This version remains online and available for archival purposes, but it is no longer supported.

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Genres:

Fiction
Coming of Age
Literature

Style:

3rd-Person Limited
Narrative

Main Characters:

Avery Ward
Melissa Hancock
Dexter Muffin
Gina Muffin
Cellphones

Main Locations:

University of State, USA
Fraternity House
National Chain Grocery Saver

Description:

Avery Ward has had limited success with relationships in his twenty-something years on earth, and they all had ended in disaster, including his most recent engagement to the straying Allison. As a student in psychology and a counselor-in-training, he feels it’s important to analyze the mistakes of his past before embarking on those same mistakes in the future; it’s the reason he’s careful about the chances he takes. So, when he sees Melissa, the girl of his dreams, at a fraternity party one night, he calculates the risk in talking to her, deciding if she may or may not be crazy. But his limited exposure to examples of such high-class beauty as she overrides any sensibility he might have about holding back, so he goes in for the conversation. And, for a solid sixty seconds, he is enraptured by her words, her voice, and her stunning physical form. Bonus: She doesn’t seem the least bit out of her mind. But, like the best things he finds in life, his moment of bliss is cut short when her cellphone rings and she disappears into the night to tend to her call. He attempts to find her again before the party ends to finish their conversation, but he has no luck. His dream girl has gotten away.

Fortunately for his aching heart, serendipity has either a sense of humor or a need for answers, so many months later, fate brings Avery and Melissa back together in a new place. But will she remember him if he tries to get her attention? And will he even have the guts to talk to her again after having such ill luck with others in the past? And can they reconnect in spite of the incessant cellphone alerts causing an interruption to Avery’s quest?

Thanks to a friend’s advice, Avery decides to pursue his dream girl no matter the risk. But thanks to the mistakes of that same friend, Avery Ward is about to embark on a journey that could cause him to lose more than just a chance at meeting his dream girl. Once again he has to assess the risk and decide if this one’s worth gambling with fate and if fate will even allow him to fulfill that second attempt at initiating love.

Format:

This story is sold as an e-book only. It can also be found in the anthology Zippywings 2015: A Short Story Collection (2015), which has e-book and print editions available. Previously published in the anthology Seven-Sided Dice: The Collection of Junk, Vol. 3 (2006, no longer available).

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$0.99 USD (on Amazon).
Equivalent to $0.99 in other regions.

Book Stats (according to Rakuten Kobo):

40 Pages

0 – 1 Hours to read

12k Total words

Copyright:

ISBN and ASIN Information:

ISBN: 9781310375736 (e-book, Smashwords Edition)
ASIN: B019SY5TN6 (e-book, Amazon)

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Update 12/30/16:

You can now read When Cellphones Go Crazy in its entirety at Drinking Cafe Latte at 1pm. Choose your chapters directly in the dropdown menus above (My Books > When Cellphones Go Crazy > Part), or start at the beginning here: