My Father, The Popsicle [a short story]

By Annie Reed
Published by Thunder Valley Press
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Published: March 21, 2011
Words: 6,843 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458164148

Short description

Jodi thought she was an orphan, right up until a lawyer contacts her out of the blue to ask what she intends to do about her father. It turns out Jodi's father had himself cryogenically frozen. The company that's kept him on ice is going out of business, and everyone's turning to teenage Jodi to make decisions on behalf of a man she never met.

Extended description

Jodi thought she was an orphan, right up until a lawyer contacts her out of the blue to ask what she intends to do about her father.

It turns out Jodi's father had himself cryogenically frozen. Only now the company that's kept him on ice is going out of business, and everyone's turning to teenage Jodi to make decisions on behalf of a man she never met.

Decisions that nothing in Jodi's life could have prepared her to make.

"The appearance of a new Annie Reed story is a treat. Try one and you'll be hooked."
- Dave Hendrickson, author of CRACKING THE ICE, forthcoming from WestSide Press

Annie Reed is a prolific short story writer whose fiction has been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine as well as in numerous anthologies from Daw and Pocket Books.

Tags

family drama, short story, science fiction, cryogenics, fathers  daughters

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