title: Notes on the Windowsill
author: Jennifer L.B. Leese
description: Jennifer LB Leese is a 32-year-old mother of three from Maryland. Jennifer is a published author of childrens fiction books, young adult fantasy books, and magical realism novels for adults. She is a childrens book reviewer for several online magazines, including Fiction Forum where she runs her childrens book review column entitled Jennifers Corner, and at Midwest Book Review, titled Jennifers Bookshelf.    Mrs. Leese is a volunteer judge in the childrens/young adult category for the EPIC Eppie Award and for The Florida Writers Association. She has been an active member of SCBWI, and EPIC since the beginning of 2000, and EPPRO since 2001.    As if that isnt enough, Jennifer is also a copyeditor for Writers Exchange E-Publishing, as well as for individual authors. (http://www.geocities.com/ladyjiraff/copyeditor.html) Jennifers experience comes from the above as well as for her published books, numerous articles, and professional book reviews and columns.    As half of JV Harlee, Mrs. Leese writes gothic, horror novels for teenagers with published author Valerie Hardin. Their first book titled, "Gargoyle Tears". As well as being a Mom, and a writer, Mrs. Leese is also a book reviewer for several online magazines, as well as for her own website ASTORYWEAVER'S Book Reviews (links below).    Mrs. Leese lives in Maryland with her three children, Nicholas, Cameron, and Jordan. Married twelve years to the love of her life, Jennifer knew shed marry Thom the moment she laid eyes on him.    Jennifer LB Leese, AStoryWeaver@aol.com  It's Only Ink! http://www.geocities.com/ladyjiraff  JV Harlee, Gargoyle Tears, http://www.geocities.com/ladyjiraff/jvharlee.html  AStoryWeavers Book Reviews, http://www.geocities.com/ladyjiraff/aswbr.html  aMUSEing (Leese Group), http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aMUSEing
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  > The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it
  > on.
  
  > > —Robert Bloch
  
  NELL SULLIVAN WAS a mouse.
  
  A square.
  
  A big fat nobody.
  
  Sitting at her desk with her head bowed and her gaze fixed on the keys of her
  IBM Selectric, she didn’t need to glance at the clock to know the hour had
  arrived. She’d been ticking away the seconds until quitting time in her head—
  _one Mississippi, two—_ having spent the last five minutes putting her desk in
  order, the same as always. Never making s