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FRAN
Fran wasted 17 years in love with the wrong dude. So naturally, she does what any questionably unstable woman would do: buys a nasty old farmhouse in Connecticut, orders 288 pricey French pumpkin seeds, and radioactively decides to reinvent herself as a farmer. Enter Mr. Woody S. Chonk III. (And Eddie the Exterminator...) Woody's fat. Fearless. Lives under her barn. And is eating Fran’s financial future. One seedling at a time. What begins as Fran's perfectly unreasonable attempt to save her pumpkins escalates into cages, traps, garlic, a toy shotgun, an accidental opossum and a blood feud with a woodchuck. Enter Eddie—the HOT exterminator+volunteer firefighter with a 1950's cherry red truck, kick ass emotional intelligence, and an alarming ability to see through Fran’s bullcrap. FRAN is a dark, funny, short story about heartbreak, starting over, childhood wounds, and the ridic things we do when avoiding life. And love. And somewhere between declaring war on a furry beast and throwing her ballet slippers out of a moving truck, Fran discovers that starting over isn’t about winning. It’s about accidentally discovering when to let go.