Kindle Edition Amazon Ned Category:  Fantasy Publisher: Amazon Type: Fiction Pages: 26 Copyright: December 10, 2014 Price: $2.99 (eBook) Imagine… a friend and neighbor, affable but mysterious, easygoing yet also strangely intense when it comes to a personal life kept as close to the vest as possible. Who doesn’t know someone like this? Two Author Book: Daniel Kelley and Linie Sherrod

Recommended (Goodreads)
A fast moving, slice-of-life portrait of a young couple, the Howells, Mike and Janie, it depicts their meeting up with Ned, a carrot-topped young man to whom they are drawn.
Part slice-of-life and part Twilight Zone, Ned jumps along merrily, providing lots of little hints with no clear-cut answers. It is quite likable, written in a down home folksy style, easy to read and a nicely studied portrait of human emotions in the twenty-six pages it takes to tell the story.
The only reason for a four-star review is that while Ned is shown to be a rather enigmatic yet fully (as much as possible) detailed character, Mike and Janie are never really shown to be other than a young couple who wish to have their first child. While it enhances the everyperson mystique, a little description of the young couple would have enhanced the story even more.
Similarly, the commentary at the beginning of "Who was Ned?" "How did he come to live here?" might have been better left until the end of the story in the form of dialogue between the young couple. Still, this is a lovely story of friendship, birth and more, and it's quietly moving. Recommended

Five Stars
Well written. I didn't the see the ending coming

Mysterious Short Story
Mysterious short story. Unexplainable phenomena occurs in a normal neighborhood. Takes you to the outer limits of your imagination.