Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Last Year and a Half
    The Last Year and a Half
    The Last Year and a Half
    Ebook44 pages46 minutes

    The Last Year and a Half

    By Gina Lawless

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    What could possibly be worse than having breast cancer at a young age when your life is at it's fullest? Olivia Scott has battled, and won. But, she now comes face to face with the reality of what she has left behind in the process of healing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGina Lawless
    Release dateMar 11, 2012
    ISBN9781452472829
    The Last Year and a Half
    Author

    Gina Lawless

    Gina Lawless resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. He drives truck and she is navigator. Most of the stories and novels she has written, were written in the jump seat of their Kenworth going up and down Interstate 5. (posted by her son Brook Dougherty) I have recently taken over my mothers smashwords account. Sadly her life passed very soon and tragically in late November 2012. If you wish to contact me for any reason, any at all. You can find me at brookdougherty@yahoo.com or on facebook. brook.dougherty.54@facebook.com I'd love to make her legacy continue on. Aside from my mother, I am an aspiring author and amateur writer. If you'd like to collaborate or make sequels to her books in her memory please feel free to contact me. She was a beautiful woman inside and out and when the moon is in view I see her. It's light in the darkness and it's not so easy to find vision in the daylight will always remind me of her spirit and her character. Love to all, Brook

    Read more from Gina Lawless

    Related to The Last Year and a Half

    Related ebooks

    Contemporary Women's For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      I Forgave My Sex Attacker

      Apr 26, 2022

      I Forgave My Sex Attacker
      5 min read

    • Article

      No sex please!

      Sep 14, 2023

      No sex please!
      4 min read

    • Article

      “I Escaped My Grandfather’s Sex Cult”

      Mar 16, 2022

      I was born into the Family, a religious movement founded in Huntington Beach, California, in 1968 by my grandfather David Brandt Berg, with help from his four children, including my father, Hosea. It was known as the Children of God in its early days

      8 min read

    • Article

      Here’s What I Don’t Say

      Jun 1, 2019

      Here’s What I Don’t Say
      13 min read

    • Article

      Festival

      Sep 15, 2018

      My husband, who loved festivals, who was a great fan of festivals, wanted to get to the square in time for the first band at eleven o’clock. From bed, the dog and I watched him dress. He tried on various T-shirts, declaring some of them too tight and

      13 min read

    • Article

      My Wild Life With PABLO ESCOBAR

      Oct 30, 2019

      My Wild Life With PABLO ESCOBAR
      7 min read

    • Article

      Love, Lust, and More

      Feb 12, 2020

      Fleetwood Mac was singing She is dancing away from you now, and I squirmed in my seat. Kabir was rubbing my thigh as he drove, a gesture I once thought was reserved for me. Bah! I also used to think he only took naked selfies in bed with me, but then

      11 min read

    • Article

      Julia

      Oct 19, 2022

      Julia
      7 min read

    • Article

      Not Normal

      Jul 14, 2022

      Not Normal
      6 min read

    • Article

      Terror In the takeaway

      Apr 14, 2022

      Terror In the takeaway
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Identity Parade

      Feb 2, 2019

      The Identity Parade
      9 min read

    • Article

      I’mstill STANDING

      Dec 2, 2022

      I’mstill STANDING
      10 min read

    • Article

      Divorce Settlement

      May 11, 2021

      Divorce Settlement
      5 min read

    • Article

      Ariel Levy: “Feminism Never Said You Can Have It All”

      Mar 14, 2017

      Ariel Levy is a journalist, author, and staff writer at The New Yorker who has written long stories about South African Olympian Castor Semenya, gay-rights activist Edith Windsor, and what The Joy of Sex looks like for today’s reader. But if you know

      7 min read

    • Article

      Strength Training

      Mar 25, 2023

      Strength Training
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Book

      Oct 30, 2019

      The Book
      20 min read

    • Article

      The Ninth Step

      Aug 26, 2020

      The Ninth Step
      6 min read

    • Article

      Finding Peace—and Briefly, Freedom—at My Grandfather’s Funeral

      Oct 11, 2019

      “Saying goodbye with the people who loved him—and me—I remember that I am not the tomb that imprisons me.”

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Helping Hand

      Dec 29, 2022

      A Helping Hand
      8 min read

    • Article

      Virginia Ironside

      Jun 2, 2021

      Q My husband is not as virile, shall we say, as he used to be. We haven’t managed to have sex for a year now. To put it bluntly, he can’t get it up. Now, I don’t mind a bit, because sex had become very painful recently, but he is devastated and refus

      3 min read

    • Article

      Protagonists

      Jun 18, 2021

      Was the craft of fiction around desire and obstacle taught by men and for men, for men protagonists and men readers? Was fiction part of the patriarchy? Was the craft of fiction part of the patriarchy? The answers were all yes. The post Protagonists

      7 min read

    • Article

      Heavy Heart

      Feb 5, 2022

      Heavy Heart
      6 min read

    • Article

      Siphons

      Feb 6, 2020

      Siphons
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Last Year and a Half

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Last Year and a Half - Gina Lawless

      The Last Year and a Half

      By Gina Lawless

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012 Gina Lawless

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The Last Year and a Half

      By

      Gina Lawless

      In the wee hours of the morning, as I drive north on Interstate 5 through Weed California, I’m realizing maybe I should have taken the coastal route. At this point I have no idea where I’m going. I’m just going. I have left behind a life that wasn’t…what wasn’t it? It wasn’t what I expected, or chose, or was prepared for. So, I’m escaping. I’m escaping the cancer, the boyfriend, the job, the friends…friends that I thought I had anyway.

      My cell phone rings in the console next to me. It’s May Pearson, my very best friend in the whole world. The one friend that I’ve managed not to alienate. But, then she has been in Seattle for the past twelve years. I haven’t told her about the cancer, and not sure if I want to yet.

      May, what’s up lady? I ask cheerfully even though I’m not supposed to be talking and driving, but there’s no one else on the road that I can run into and kill with my stupidity.

      What’s up? she says a bit irritated. "What do you mean, what’s up? Where the hell are you? Lee just called me, and he says you just up and left?"

      Yeah, well, not exactly up and left. We split up. It’s a long story.

      Oh shit, Liv, I’m sorry. What happened? He didn’t say a word about it. My name is Olivia, but May has always called me Liv, or Livie. Once in a while she calls me Olive Oil, when she‘s trying to irritate me.

      Things fall apart, always do. I’m being tight lipped because I don’t want to get into it on the phone.

      You guys have been together for more than eight years. I’m sorry for sounding so shocked, but you guys were practically married.

      But, we weren’t. Better that we didn’t do that.

      Why do you sound so cynical?

      I do not sound cynical.

      Well, where the hell are you?

      I’m on I-5, just past Weed.

      Hey! I’ve got some time banked up for vacation. Why don’t you, and she draws the word you out, meet me in Sisters. There’s a cabin I rent there once in a while. We’ll just chill for a bit, and catch up. Whatdya say?

      Sisters? Where is that? I only ask because I just want to keep driving until I hit Alaska or the North Pole.

      In Oregon, dope!

      And how am I supposed to know this?

      She wants to hang up and see if she can get the cabin nailed down, then call me back with the coordinates. It’ll be fun. Just like old times.

      If you say so. I smile to myself in spite of myself. Myself and I, don’t always see things the same.

      I say so. I’ll call you back in a few minutes.

      I haven’t seen May for a few years, and even though I’ve spoken to her on the phone just about weekly, and we email back and forth, I haven’t told her what I’ve been going through for the last year and a half. I keep asking myself why, but I have no answer for myself.

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1