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Elsie McCracken, a teenage scion to her family's business empire, is fed up with being a quiet little girl. She wants to make a name for herself and do something wild. Along with her two best friends, Elsie engineers the abduction of Pop Star Jordan Rich, and the girls take him hostage in an attempt to keep him to themselves. Despite their ingenuity in pulling off the caper, they meet with varying degrees of guilt and self-reflection.
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Darius Powell
Darius Powell is a former U.S. Army officer and corporate business executive turned writer. Since 2005, he has written two novels, nine short stories, one screenplay and several magazine articles.Raised in Los Angeles, CA, Darius currently lives in Cincinnati, OH with his family.
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Quiet Action - Darius Powell
Quiet Action
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Fairy tales hardly ever come true for quiet girls. That’s what Elsie’s older girl cousins used to tell her at the staid family get togethers of her youth. She really never understood what they were talking about back then but as the years passed, the true meaning of their taunts became as clear as day.
Her older sister had become a rebel and the bane of her parents’ existence and all of her girl cousins were now gone. Some were married, some were in prison, and one was dead; strangled by the hands of a jilted lover.
With males in queue, the family elders turned to Elsie to take over the McCracken-Young business empire and continue the legacy. Although grateful for the largess, Elsie felt that everything about her had been planned without any thoughts about what she might want.
Was it her fault that all of the older girls in her family were fuck-ups? She often opined that the numerous years of boarding school, piano lessons, ballet recitals, and forced labor within the company’s back offices had stolen the adventure and excitement of her childhood even though she was only fifteen. It was true, she thought. She was too quiet after all and had she spent way too much of her time doing
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