Piece of It: An Excerpt from Jeff Roman and the Copper Spade

...Jeff had four older sisters, two younger, and a twin. He got along with most of the them for the most part, all with the great, huge exception of one. As much as the others drove him crazy (as normal siblings do), there was one who always seemed to walk around with an ax in her hand ready for the perfect moment to chop Jeff’s dignity into a million pieces. Her eyes never softened, and her sharp mouth never ceased. Her entrance into a room could make the captain of the football team shake in his knees (and inevitably run). She was quick minded like a fox, and had the prowl of a lioness, the brains of a surgeon and the heart of a mercenary. Her name was Jenny, and she was thirteen years old.
Jenny despised Jeff thoroughly. She enjoyed verbal abuse to the degree where Jeff often thought the Universe should open up its heavens and bend its rules of nature, just for a moment, and make it perfectly ethical to hit a girl in the face. He often wanted to hit her in the face. It was an awful feeling, but anybody who knew Jenny’s relentless mouth would have no problem forgiving Jeff if he ever submitted to his urges. However, it was because of Jenny (and Jeff’s will to resist his urge in hitting her) that the Universe did decide to open up its roof of rules for Jeff and send him something that would change his life forever. Just when he thought that being a respectable gentleman would never pay off, and just when he thought that being outnumbered by women would soon send him to the loony bin, and just when he thought he couldn’t bare another one of Jenny’s relentless ax blows, a blue light had fallen from the night sky to save him...