title: My Weird Neighbor: A Tale of Mushrooms, Baseball, & Salem Witches
author: Sheila Brodhead
description: Sheila Brodhead is a writer, psychologist, and teacher. She loves nature, needle-felting, and geocaching. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, son, and daughter. Sheila writes for children and pre-teens.
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  Witches on Parole
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Unlocked
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  by Debora Geary
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2011 Debora Geary
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Fireweed Publishing
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Kindle Edition
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 2
  
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  He was a totally evil jerkwad of a slime-ball, and may he rot in hell. She had
  the worst freaking luck with roommates. What prehistoric idiot still thought
  it was the girl’s job to do all the cooking and cleaning, and then take care
  of a couple of his friends’ “needs” on the side?
  
  He was just a pimp with a fancier name. Although, truth be told—and if you
  couldn’t tell yourself the truth in the middle of the night, you were a
  delusional idiot—it was the cleaning that had made her run. Apparently
  baseball players shared the slovenly gene with druggies and frat boys.
  
  “Slovenly” was such a cool word. The kind you said quietly in your head. She’d
  learned long ago never to say anything that weird out loud.
  
  Maybe it was the words in