Homecoming

Not all homecomings are necessarily good ones, especially the one where the plane crashes...Sergeant Sunny Washer is returning from Afghanistan and will meet the "husband" she duped 13 months ago. She has had a dysfunctional life and has a lot to explain, including a secret that threatens everything, but only if Joey will listen.Joey isn't interested in hearing what Sunny has to say. He wants their sham of a marriage over. But picking up Sunny doesn't go as planned when her plane crashes and he rushes to get to her. They both battle a few personal issues as events unfold.HOMECOMING is a short story at approx 4800 words. It has dark issues, death, and may or may not end happily. This is not a romance. There is no actual violence committed in this story, only dark family issues that reverberate beyond family walls. A third-generation soldier, Kelly Washington isn't afraid to push boundaries in real life and in her fiction. Regardless the genre-fantasy, science fiction, or romance-her writing style packs a powerful punch by featuring strong and independent, yet flawed, characters.Kelly is the author of the Falling for Him trilogy, the four-volume epic fantasy series, Reclaimed Souls, the Moira Rothrock novella series (Unlocking the Devil and Sleeping with the Devil), the stand-alone Freaky Friday-esque military romance novel, Collide Into You, the science fiction romance novel, Claiming the Heart of Vraithe, and her most recent, Dare You to Love Me.Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, journals, and online magazines, to include, Overheard Magazine, Cutter's Final Cut, spillover mag, Fahmidan Journal, Pulp House Fiction Magazine, Kaleidotrope, Heart's Kiss, and multiple Fiction River anthologies. Kelly's short story, "The American Flag of Sergeant Hale Schofield" was a 2016 Year's Best Crime and Mystery Story. Her mystery thriller, "The Tegan Doctrine" was listed as a best 2023 Thriller Short Story.