Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Explore 1.5M+ audiobooks & ebooks free for 30 days

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Tailor’s Tears
    Tailor’s Tears
    Tailor’s Tears
    Ebook41 pages30 minutes

    Tailor’s Tears

    By Dale Hartley Emery

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    “What does a girl have to do around here to prove she is a virgin?”

    A tattered wedding dress. An enraged bride. And Clarke Whiteley is all out of virgins’ tears.

    He brought the problem on himself, of course. He should not have imbued Dulcie’s wedding dress with magic. Not with maiden aura. Not four days before the wedding.

    And certainly not without conferring with Dulcie.

    Now Clarke has four days to make things right. But family rivalries are at play. And deep family secrets.

    And as Clarke is about to learn the hard way: Magic is no match for family.

    A contemporary fantasy short story from Dale Hartley Emery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDriscoll Brook Press
    Release dateMar 19, 2014
    ISBN9781632610010
    Tailor’s Tears
    Read preview
    Author

    Dale Hartley Emery

    Dale Hartley Emery writes fiction in a variety of genres, including fantasy, crime fiction, and mainstream fiction. His stories include Inventory, Marmalade, and The Donation. Dale has worked as a failed shoemaker, reluctant dairy farmer, and ruthless ice cream man. For several years he monitored the nuclear test ban treaty, making sure those pesky commies didn't blow up the planet. (They didn't.) When he isn't writing, Dale advises software teams and leaders about how to play nice together. Colleagues in Dale's industry once created a special award for him for being reasonable. Dale lives in California with his wife.

    Read more from Dale Hartley Emery

    Related to Tailor’s Tears

    Related ebooks

    Fantasy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related categories

    Reviews for Tailor’s Tears

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Tailor’s Tears - Dale Hartley Emery

      TAILOR’S TEARS

      Dale Hartley Emery

      Driscoll Brook Press

      © 2014 Dale Hartley Emery

      Copyright Information

      Contents

      Title Page

      A Tattered Wedding Dress

      A Bride’s Request

      A Virgin’s Tears

      A Perfect June Day

      A Profound Mismatch

      About the Author

      Connect with the Author

      Books by the Author

      Copyright Information

      A Tattered Wedding Dress

      There are three things a tailor needs above all others: cloth, needles, and a fresh supply of tears. Clarke Whiteley was all out of tears. He looked at Dulcie Byers’s wedding dress, in tatters on the cutting table, and wondered whether he could retire on the money in his savings account. He decided he could not.

      Clarke’s workshop was empty now, his boutique closed. The cheap battery-powered wall clock ticked heavily, and the mid-afternoon humidity hung in the room like a gas leak.

      Dulcie Byers was likely halfway home by now, screaming into her cell phone at her unworthy fiancé that the tailor he recommended, the tailor he insisted that she use, had ruined her $3,000 wedding dress. Maybe she would scream, as she had at Clarke, that he had ruined her life.

      She had a point.

      Hue Hawthorne, the unworthy fiancé, would call Clarke to find out what had happened, to find out how to make this right. That conversation would lead to nowhere, and he too would yell at Clarke, about trust, about putting my faith in you, about third and fourth chances, about I knew you would let me down when it really mattered.

      Ten years earlier Clarke had shepherded Hue through his senior year at Brown University, tutoring, writing papers, stealing advance copies of upcoming tests, ensuring Professor Combover that surely he was mistaken, surely it was not Hue Hawthorne he had spotted with tender young Fiona Combover leaving Rosa’s Ristorante, because on Thursday evening Hue had been in the library with Clarke, studying diligently for the poli-sci midterm.

      Hue was nothing if not grateful, but gratitude had a shelf life. The cheesy clock on Clarke’s wall ticked past the expiration date.

      The boutique’s phone rang, and Clarke answered before the first ring died away. Hey, Hue.

      You son of a cur. What have you done to my daughter-in-law? It was not Hue. It was the elder Hawthorne. Assemblyman Gorance Goldsmith Hawthorne III. Old Gory had never liked Clarke.

      I’m sure she’s told you the whole story herself, Clarke said, sure she had done no such thing.

      "The poor girl was unconsolable. Incoherent. Couldn’t say three words without breaking

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 4