Lifetime Hallmark Scheme: Short Story

By M.E. Purfield

Linda has the perfect job working at the hospital switchboard, but when Christmas in July starts, she finds herself having to make an impossible choice.

 

With no legitimate excuse to take a week away from work, she is left with no other option than to use her disabled son to take bereavement leave.

 

But when she finds out that her scheme could end up killing someone, she must choose between her job and her family.

 

Lifetime Hallmark Scheme is a humorous crime short story that will have you on the edge of your seat. If you enjoyed the suspense and humor of Gregory McDonald and Donald Westlake, you'll love Lifetime Hallmark Scheme. Don't hesitate -- buy now!

 

Bonus Story: Metal Balls.

• Language: English
• Publisher: trash books
• Release date: Dec 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223538479

M.E. Purfield

M.E. Purfield is the autistic author who writes novels and short stories in the genres of crime, sci-fi, dark fantasy, and Young Adult. Sometimes all in the same story. Notably, he works on the Tenebrous Chronicles which encompasses the Miki Radicci Series, The Cities Series, and the Radicci Sisters Series, and also the sci-fi, neuro-diverse Auts series of short stories.

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Lifetime Hallmark Scheme

Short Story

M.E. Purfield

Published by trash books, 2023.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

LIFETIME HALLMARK SCHEME

First edition. December 8, 2023.

Copyright © 2023 M.E. Purfield.

ISBN: 979-8223538479

Written by M.E. Purfield.

Also by M.E. Purfield

Auts Series

Auts

Books About Everyone

The Satellite

The Ableism of Salvation

What Sorrow Flies Off Roofs

The King of Dodgeball Goes with the Flow

When the Lights Go Out

Blunt Force Kharma

Bound Kharma

Kharma's Pursuit

Kharma's Glitch

Kharma's Gatto

Desolate Kharma (Coming Soon)

Blunt Force Kharma

Cities That Eat Islands

Cities That Eat Islands (Book 1)

Cities That Eat Islands (Book 2)

Cities That Eat Islands (Book 3)

Fish Hunt

Cities That Hide Bodies

Complete Cities That Eat Islands

Miki Radicci

A Black Deeper Than Death

In a Blackened Sky Where Dreams Collide

Blood Like Cherry Ice

Surly Girly

Bawling Sugar Soul

A Girl Close to Death

Heart on the Devil's Sleeve

Sinking Stones in the Sky

The Ghost and the Stream

Expressway Thru the Skull

Hacker's Moon

Miki Radicci Shorts

The Ultimate Miki Radicci Omnibus Vol 1

The Ultimate Miki Radicci Omnibus Vol 2 (Coming Soon)

Miranda Crowe

Bagged

Munki Moo Moo

Munki Moo Moo

Radicci Sisters Mystery

Psychic Sisters

My Dead Body

Saints

Squeezed

Broken Psychic Hearts

The Emptiness Above

The Sludge Below

Doe

Auties

The Killer

The Deceiver

Favors

Bumper

Rats In The Cage

Short Story

Natural Born Killer

Limits of Stupidity

MiLK

Orange Flecks

Through Tangled Nerves

The Creative

Defective Brain Club

Line

The Van Outside

Doorway Down

Just

Short of a Long Holiday

Lifetime Hallmark Scheme

Malignant Little Bastards

Pain Killer

Sibling Rivalry

Hole In The Head Freak

Neurodivergence on FH-358

Stories

A Sandwich Can't Stop A Bullet

The Morrows

How To Make Friends with Teenage Anarchists

Tenebrous Chronicles

Party Girl Crashes the Rapture

Angel Spits

Six Feet

Tweens with Pop Guns

Lightning From The Fire

The Subject

Tenebrous Two

Darby & Cain

The Saoirse War

Ealu

Thainig An

Ag Dul Abhaile (Coming Soon)

Buama Ama (Coming Soon)

Fealltoir (Coming Soon)

Spas Reoite (Coming Soon)

Standalone

Breaking Fellini

Delicate Cutters

Jesus Freakz + Buddha Punx

Buddha Punx + Ghetto Girlz

Klepto Pyro Mojo

The Pick-Up

(R)Evolution

Angst

Watch for more at M.E. Purfield’s site.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Also By M.E. Purfield

Dedication

The Lifetime Hallmark Scheme

Bonus Story: | Metal Balls

Free Short Story

M.E. Purfield’s Patreon

Further Reading: The Pick-Up

About the Author

Deepest thanks to my Patreon supporters who make this story possible. Mary Monzon, Mike