An Unwelcome Reunion
Angie's pre-work sanctuary includes a quiet break room, high-test coffee, and no one demanding her attention.
A precious few minutes preparation for juggling the stresses of IT.
But a gloating ghost of Rotten Coworkers Past shatters her serenity.
Threatening to drag her kicking and screaming back to the Bad Old Days.
Will Angie's plans for vengeance rid her of the Old School Ogre?
Find out in the clever tale of teamwork, sisterhood, and a dish best served cold.
An excerpt from Team Building Revenge:
A Ghost from a Past Best Left Buried
When I turned back, three sliver-shaped ice cubes freezing my palm, Laura stood in the break room doorway.
An absolutely disgusted expression on her gorgeous face.
"You will never believe who I just saw in the hallway, Angie. Never. Talk about a Ghost of Bad Jobs Past."
"You're joking. You worked with him too?"
She shuddered, and the part of me that wasn't icked out with the sliminess of encountering Mike Billings perked up right away. Laura's thick honey-blonde hair shifted across her shoulders, and she rolled her huge blue eyes in a way that captured my grumpy GenX heart all over again.
"Unfortunately yes, I crossed paths with that jackass. Way back in the bad old days of the early Nineties, when women in IT were few and far between. I hadn't quite developed my current levels of Don't Give a Shit when it comes to guys like that, or maybe there just aren't as many of them around. Anyway, I'm sorry to say he knocked me for a pretty bad loop."
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Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where Stephen King got the idea for The Shining. That's just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction.
Kari's first published novel Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018.
Recent professional short story sales include three to Fiction River anthology magazine, with the first due out in the September issue. Kari also has two stories in a holiday-themed anthology project with Kristine Kathryn Rusch due out over the holidays in 2019.
Kari writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, and contemporary fiction, and she's happiest when she surprises herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they're better off not knowing more about.
Kari's novels, novellas, and short stories are available at www.spiralpublishing.net, which also publishes books by Frank Kilgore and Jason Adams. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and random cool things that catch her attention, visit www.karikilgore.com.