A Lure
by Barbara Milton

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A LURE is less a “Who-Done-It” than a “Whodunnit-With-Whom.” There’s the beautiful Bryn, who likes sleeping around. There’s Pat, her much older lover, who sequesters her on his Caribbean Island. There’s Dana, Bryn’s sister, who owns a floundering tackle shop in Northern Minnesota, and is the only person Pat allows to come visit. There’s Coz, an ex-marine and Pat’s right-hand-man, who Dana immediately falls for, but Coz is already gaga over Bryn. Meanwhile, Dottie, Pat's septuagenarian housekeeper, is in love with Pat, who mainly ignores her. And finally, there’s Henry, Pat’s rapscallion son, a movie star who’s lurking in and out of the shadows.

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"Barbara Milton's freshness and simplicity of style, her rare ability to sketch a character and situation in no time flat, makes her a short story writer of absolutely first rank." —George Plimpton, Founder of The Paris Review A Master of the Short Story: Pushcart Press Five stars: Goodreads

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Barbara Milton was born in St. Louis, Missouri, spent summers in Northern Minnesota and now divides her time between New York and Connecticut. She received her BA from Manhattanville College, a Masters in Education from Harvard, and a Masters in Enviromental Management from Yale. She has been an Avon Lady, an Avis-Rent-A-Car agent, a teacher, and the Director of an Audubon Coastal Center. As a writer she has had three stories and an interview published in The Paris Review. Her stories have won the Pushcart Prize and appeared on their list of Masters of The Short Story. Her collection of short stories, A Small Cartoon, was published by the Word Beat Press and won five stars from Goodreads, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. She also won First Prize in the Duotrope Winning Writer’s Short Story Contest.

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Contributors

Author

Barbara Milton

Illustrator

Vincent Pozzuoli

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