Ice Cream Man (A Short Story)

I.E. Pell

Sinopse

All Lizzie wants is to stay cool on some of the hottest days of the summer. There's one way and that's the freezer. But why is her employer's walk-in freezer padlocked? What is Mrs. Royce hiding in there? Ready or not, Lizzie is about to find out.

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