"Homestay" A Real Culture Shock!
Book Title: Homestay
Title: Homestay
Type: Fiction
Category: Suspense/Thriller

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By: Dan Edward Venz

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Release Date: Winter, 2008
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"Homestay" A Real Culture Shock Is Coming!


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A "new" kind of thriller from: Dan E. Venz


This book is dedicated to my father who taught me that sometimes the best way to deal with things in life is to think like a kid.

"Homestays have become obscenely popular in recent years. The number of teenagers boarding planes to go off to other countries, where they do not know the culture or the language is staggering. Are all the families normal? Is it really safe for the kids to live with a family they do not know and probably cannot communicate with? Are all these kids normal? Is it safe for a family to accept an unknown teenager from another country, going through puberty and at the height of their rebellious years? What if the homestay student was mentally unstable. What if the family was sick or perverted? What horrors could happen?" D.E.Venz


Mayumi found it hard to sit still on the plane. Looking out of the window she could see that they were finally over land. 9 hours of nothing but ocean below but now there was land. She was almost there. Almost in America. As she looked down, she wondered what Brad Pitt might be doing just at that very moment. She wondered if she might have a chance to meet him, or some other Hollywood Star. Of course she would. She just knew it!

She had been planning her trip to America since she was 10 years old. 6 long years she had waited. She had studied hard to prepare. She studied about American culture, music, movies and English too. Well, English was still a bit tough for her, but she would be alright. She just knew she would. She was sure that her homestay family would be great. She opened her prep package and studied the family picture and names once more. She thought they looked like a nice family. They had a daughter one year younger than her and a son 2 years older. She was so excited. She could not wait to meet them. "I hope they like the gifts I brought them from Tokyo."

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(10 months later)
Sherrif Gavon was just getting ready to enjoy an early morning cup of coffee at Jake's Diner before his night shift ended when he got a call on his radio. "Shit," he thought, "why does crap always happen at 6:30 in the morning?"

When Gavon got to the Ryan's house, it was quiet, as it should have been, cause it was still 6:30 in the morning. He hated to wake these people up this early in the morning, but a call of domestic disturbance meant he had to actually talk with someone in the house and check it out. He rang the doorbell, but no one came to the door. He rang again. "Ah, 30 more minutes and I will be at home, snoozing", he thought.

Gavon did not make it home by 7:00a.m. that morning. By the time it was all over, it was 11:00a.m. and though he was exhausted, he just could not go to sleep. Images of what he had seen when they finally went into that house kept flashing in his brain over and over. "How could anyone do that? Where was the little Japanese girl Mayumi? How many bodies were there? What the Hell had happened in that home?" The questions kept rolling around in his mind. He felt like he was going to throw up. He picked up the phone to call his ex-wife just to make sure his own daughter was okay.

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