Sweet Georgia Brown by Cheryl Robinson

Author:Cheryl Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

SUNDAY NEWS

"Georgia!” Marvin yelled, slamming the door leading from the kitchen to the garage. "This shit just can’t be true.”

"What, Marvin?” she asked as she rushed out of the bedroom. “What can’t be true?”

He held up a copy of the Detroit Free Press and turned to the front page of the entertainment section.

“That’s me,” she said excitedly. The photo shoot had been exciting, and the prints had turned out great, even though she had to force herself to smile.

“Oh, Mom, you look good,” Chloe said. Georgia and Chloe had decided on a fresh start, and Georgia had been touched when Chloe asked if she could call her “Mom.”

“Oh, so she gets her own radio show and now she’s your mom?”

“No,” Chloe said, narrowing her eyes at Marvin. “I have been calling her that—you just haven’t been around to hear it.”

“Is there something you want to tell me?” Marvin asked. “ ‘Irate housewife determined to become a household name,’ ” he said, reading the headline.

She had no idea she would make the front page of the Sunday entertainment section.

“ ‘ “Expect billboards to be plastered throughout the city by New Year’s,” Priscilla Pusey of 1FM says.’ I thought you told me you weren’t going to do it.”

“I don’t remember telling you that, Marvin. In fact, just the other week, I told you I was going to do it. The night I went for the dinner meeting.”

“Oh, that night? The night you left me with your kids and a TV dinner?”

“My kids. Are they just my kids?”

He continued reading. “ ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’s morning show will be the best thing listeners have heard in a while.’ ”

“Marvin,” Georgia said, trying to stop him from reading the article.

“Wait, there’s more. ‘This former housewife turned morning show host is best known as the ex-wife of Detroit radio host Marvelous Marvin, who spent many days on his number-one-rated morning show dishing out insults about his plus-size bombshell wife. Prospective listeners are already buzzing, hopeful Georgia Brown will use her show to do the same to him.’ So you’re my ex-wife now? Is there something you forgot to tell me?”

“That was a misprint. I’ll ask Priscilla for a correction to be printed.”

“No one reads the corrections, Georgia. And besides, I doubt it was a misprint, because you’ve been keeping me in the dark about a lot of things lately.”

“I’m on the air tomorrow morning. Six a.m. Be sure to check me out.”

“Georgia, please don’t go on-air and try to compete with me. You’re out of your league. In fact, you’re not in any league—not when it comes to radio. That would be like me trying to win the U.S. Open against Tiger Woods. It can’t happen.”

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