Scar Flowers (39 page)

Scar Flowers

By Maureen O’Donnell

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s mind or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. The practices described are unsafe; do not attempt them.

Copyright® 2008 Maureen O’Donnell

Cover photo ©iStockphoto.com/efenzi

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

Seattle writer
Maureen O’Donnell’s stories have appeared in the Seal Press anthology
Shameless: Women’s Intimate Erotica
, in
Penthouse
magazine, and on CleanSheets.com. She is a belly dancer (maureenbellydance.com) and regularly performs at local nightclubs. Contact the author at
[email protected]
.

Thank you:

My first readers, Carol and Helen, for your encouragement.

My dear friends Meredith and Jennifer, for inspiration and help.

Joel Chafetz and Skye Kathleen Moody, for your instruction and support.

Everyone who gave advice and shared their specialized knowledge and/or writing with me.

Hanne Blank, Barbara Rice Thompson, and Bill Noble, for your support.