{"id":41098,"date":"2017-07-04T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T02:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/?p=41098"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T21:22:41","slug":"theres-some-fireworks-in-the-grab-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2017\/07\/04\/theres-some-fireworks-in-the-grab-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s some fireworks in the Grab Bag&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41099\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TheGrabBag21-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41099\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TheGrabBag21-cover-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Grab Bag #21 - Screwed by the Economy and Independence D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu by Kris P. Kreme\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TheGrabBag21-cover-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TheGrabBag21-cover-768x1099.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TheGrabBag21-cover-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TheGrabBag21-cover.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grab Bag #21 &#8211; Screwed by the Economy and Independence D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu by Kris P. Kreme<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Summer sales are here, and you better hope you aren\u2019t on clearance when the economy gets you down. Of course you may just have the feeling you\u2019ve been here and done her before this Independence Day. Another double dose of Kreme is on the barbecue menu this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/734339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now On Smashwords!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B073QQPXS8\" target=\"_blank\">Now On Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Grab Bag includes:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screwed by the Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone at Curious Collectibles is sad to see the final day of business, the economy having forced an end to their unique sales. However on the day of the ultimate clearance sale where everything including the fixtures is open for purchase, Sarah will discover that those fixtures might just include her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Independence D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Megan, graduation from college meant freedom, the ultimate independence from a life planned and scheduled for nearly her entire life. She sees something on the way into town that shakes everything about her independence. People she knows and people she doesn&#8217;t know are doing perverted inappropriate things in public and the biggest mystery for Megan is why it all feels so familiar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/734339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now On Smashwords!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B073QQPXS8\" target=\"_blank\">Now On Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer sales are here, and you better hope you aren\u2019t on clearance when the economy gets you down. Of course you may just have the feeling you\u2019ve been here and done her before this Independence Day. Another double dose of Kreme is on the barbecue menu this summer. &nbsp; Now On Smashwords! Now On Amazon! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2017\/07\/04\/theres-some-fireworks-in-the-grab-bag\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59,4],"tags":[61,63],"class_list":["post-41098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grab-bag","category-tales-from-the-kreme","tag-grab-bag","tag-tales-from-the-kreme","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TheGrabBag21-cover.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iXk7-aGS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45052,"url":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2022\/11\/04\/grab-an-appetizer-before-the-kornucopia\/","url_meta":{"origin":41098,"position":0},"title":"Grab an appetizer before the Kornucopia","author":"Kris P. 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