Mr. Honeycut

TERROR HAS A NAME-MR. HONEYCUT Psychologist Merritt Bond believes she buried her troubled past when she left Mississippi and opened a practice out West. She thrives in her new life until she receives a disturbing call from her younger sister, Lilli Ann, who fears for her life. Merritt has no choice but to close her office and return home. Back in the place where her nightmares began, she not only rescues Lilli Ann, but is forced to confront her personal demons. The old Bond homestead reeks with the stifling odor of roses. Their scent stirs Merritt's memories of a dark figure she calls Mr. Honeycut, and how he slid down the hall into her bedroom night after night. The words to "Sweet Rose of Sharon" and the cloying scent of rose water perfume invades her brain, and she remembers the time he left behind a trophy, a pair of dirty panties belonging to someone else. Not realizing what she had, Merritt stuffed the panties into the pouch of her teddy bear, Foffy Bear, and stashed him in her secret place. Returning to Mississippi, she retrieves evidence of her molestation and risks her life to unravel the secrets hidden deep inside her own broken psyche.
About the Author: Lottie Brent Boggan is a long time contributing writer for the Northside Sun a local newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi and was winner of the General Interest Column, Mississippi Press Award, 2007. She was a Second-place Winner in 2014. She won first place in the Novel Division of the Eudora Welty Film Festival with her novel Victory Ridge, renamed Redemption Ridge. Other honors include: Honorable Mention, in the Division of Short Stories, Eudora Welty; the Mid-South Writers Award, First Honorable Mention; the Mary Margaret Norcross Memorial Writers Award; the Gum Tree Writer's, First Place Short Story; the Mid-South Writers Award, First Honorable Mention. Humorous Short Story; Mississippi's Got Talent Winner's Circle. She was a semi-finalist or finalist in the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 Pirate's Alley William Faulkner William Wisdom Creative Writing Contest, with. her short story, "The Chosen," as a finalist. Lottie recently placed second and third in the Turner Cassity Literary Festival with the short stories, "The Chosen" and "GDM" and Honorable Mention in the 2013 Hemingway Short Story Contest with "The Chosen." Lottie is currently working on a sequel to Redemption Ridge, Return to Redemption Ridge that is set right after World War I and has as its theme, shell shock, now known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.