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.

    Cherry Popsicle Day
    Cherry Popsicle Day
    Cherry Popsicle Day
    Ebook29 pages25 minutes

    Cherry Popsicle Day

    By Ali Anthony Bell

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Teen, Young Adult, or Adult Fiction
    Synopsis: a man is beaten to death by three prison guards on the 15th anniversary of the day he met the one love of his life. He had written a letter to his lover with a poem, and an investigative reporter finds the woman and sends her the letter...we go back to the beginning and relive their story in the woman’s memory.
    This is a short story inspired by a real event that occurred on August 26, 2015, National Cherry Popsicle Day, in the Santa Clara County Correctional Facility, CA USA
    It was written one chapter per week in August 2020, following 3 consecutive short story prompts from Reedsy’s weekly short story contest, without knowing what the prompts were going to be. So, the second and third chapters were written as sequels to the first, making three stories. The first and third chapters are general fiction, while the second is romance fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAli Anthony Bell
    Release dateAug 16, 2020
    ISBN9781005603670
    Cherry Popsicle Day
    Author

    Ali Anthony Bell

    "I believe in every person's potential to develop in any field, and I believe in Morocco's ambition to become the link between Africa and the rest of the world. To do this, Morocco needs the English language, and this has become my reason and purpose: to help individuals to improve their communication skills in English, and in this way, to also help Morocco."Ali Anthony BellAli Anthony Bell has been teaching English in Morocco since 2010. An American expat, he left the USA in 1983 for Paris. He discovered his passion and vocation as a teacher at 50 years of age in Morocco, after having spent more than 20 years in Sales and Marketing in France. He taught English to High-Intermediate and Advanced level students at EHTP in 2013/2014, as well as at HEM and The American University of Leadership, where he also taught Sales and Marketing.

    Read more from Ali Anthony Bell

    Related to Cherry Popsicle Day

    Related ebooks

    YA Romance For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Drawings That Trapped A Paedophile

      Oct 18, 2022

      Sitting cross-legged on the living room floor after school one day, I giggled away as I watched my favourite cartoons. But when I heard the sound of footsteps behind me, my laughter suddenly stopped. ‘Come sit with me,’ my stepdad David, then 32, whi

      4 min read

    • Article

      Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

      Jun 10, 2020

      Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
      6 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Mar 1, 2019

      It’s 1 AM on the east coast and midnight in Iowawhen the Russian lawyer with a house in Newarkand an office in the city sends me an e-mail:“Your writing is so emotional yet so detached.It’s wonderful.” I respond without delay:“Dear Oleg, I don’t know

      3 min read

    • Article

      Siphons

      Feb 6, 2020

      Siphons
      6 min read

    • Article

      Deep Impact

      May 31, 2020

      Deep Impact
      9 min read

    • Article

      A Parent’s Agony

      Aug 12, 2022

      When I read about Regina King’s only child taking his own life (YOU, 10 February) I could only imagine what pain she was going through as a parent. Little did I know that two months later on 25 April, I would receive a phone call from my daughter’s f

      6 min read

    • Article

      Sam Neill On His New Memoir And Living With Blood Cancer: ‘I’m Not Afraid To Die, But It Would Annoy Me’

      Mar 17, 2023

      If you came to Sam Neill’s memoir without knowing the first thing about it, chapter one would hold a terrible shock. It begins amusingly enough: a lovely anecdote about his daughter Elena being asked at school when she was little about what her dad d

      7 min read

    • Article

      Name A Song

      Oct 9, 2019

      Name A Song
      12 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Sophia Shalmiyev

      Dec 20, 2019

      Let us begin at the natural home of all the white-men-are-garbage controversies and go right to the crotch area. The post A Year in Reading: Sophia Shalmiyev appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Tick, Tick… BOOM!

      Nov 26, 2021

      Tick, Tick… BOOM!
      6 min read

    • Article

      When KINDNESS Comes Around

      Sep 10, 2020

      When KINDNESS Comes Around
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Death

      Jun 14, 2017

      MORE and more of us are writing our own obituaries. Some of us meticulous planners write a few paragraphs that we hope will be printed in our local newspaper or on our funeral programs after we die. However, most of us are creating detailed digital n

      12 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Death

      Jun 13, 2017

      MORE and more of us are writing our own obituaries. Some of us meticulous planners write a few paragraphs that we hope will be printed in our local newspaper or on our funeral programs after we die. However, most of us are creating detailed digital n

      12 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

      To Live a Little

      Oct 3, 2022

      To Live a Little
      13 min read

    • Article

      Living With A Painful Past

      Jun 24, 2023

      Living With A Painful Past
      8 min read

    • Article

      While I Wasted Time in Prison, My Mom Died of a Broken Heart

      May 22, 2020

      With my hands in cuffs and my chin to my chest, my parole officer asked me, “Do you want to call your mom?” “I can’t—this would kill her,” was all I could say as I sat in the back seat of my P.O.’s car. Life Inside Perspectives from thos

      4 min read

    • Article

      A Happy MEDIUM

      May 24, 2019

      A Happy MEDIUM
      3 min read

    • Article

      100-WORD-STORY COMPETITION Winners

      Aug 16, 2022

      We’ve been delighted by the huge response to our 100-word-story competition. The entries have flooded in thick and fast during the past few months, but while we’ve enjoyed reading every story, only a few can come out on top! You, our readers, voted t

      5 min read

    • Article

      Dead Good Job

      May 11, 2023

      Dead Good Job
      3 min read

    • Article

      Take a Writer Like Him: My Complicated Love Affair with Kingsley Amis

      Aug 24, 2018

      1. As much as I may rack my brain, there are 15 minutes or so in the dark that I can’t account for and that I’ll never get back—15 minutes during which, I have to think, that creep’s hands were touching my body. It’s a weird thing to think about all

      12 min read

    • Article

      Lindsay Hunter Is Redrawing the Boundaries of Crime Fiction

      Jan 18, 2024

      "I believe in breaks, in fallow periods, in getting one’s bearings. But reading is my constant. I feel bereft in those brief moments between books." The post Lindsay Hunter Is Redrawing the Boundaries of Crime Fiction appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Cherry Popsicle Day

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Cherry Popsicle Day - Ali Anthony Bell

      Cherry

      Popsicle

      Day

      Ali Anthony

      BELL

      Copyright © 2020 Ali Anthony Bell.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed Attention: Permissions Coordinator, at the address below.

      Fiction inspired by a real event that occurred on August 26, 2015, National Cherry Popsicle Day, in the Santa Clara County Correctional Facility, CA USA. Names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination.

      Originally published in 3 parts at Reedsy Prompts in three weeks following 3 consecutive prompts: 1)Cherry Popsicle Day, submitted August 4, 2020 for Contest #53 in response to: Write a story that begins with someone's popsicle melting... continued with 2) Cherry Popsicle Day- sequel – A Second Chance submitted August 11, 2020 for Contest #54 in response to: Write a story about high school sweethearts coming across one another after many, many years apart.. and 3) Cherry Popsicle Day, ending sequel, The Secret, submitted August 16, 2020 for Contest #55 in response to: Write a story that either starts or ends with someone asking, Can you keep a secret? Acknowledgement to Reedsy.com for providing the 3 prompts that inspired the story.

      Book design by Ali Anthony Bell.

      First e-book edition 2020 Published by Ali Anthony Bell at Smashwords Inc.

      ISBN: to be assigned (e-book edition)

      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 your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1