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SHORT STORIES

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  The following is a sampling of short stories. Readers should be cautioned that, while Dragons of Antioch is written for young adults and older, the stories included here are intended for an older reader and may contain language that may not be suitable for younger readers.

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Give Us This Day ... The first year of high school can be daunting enough for a young girl: the stress of a new school and new friends, negotiating your way through high school cliques and searching for one that fits, the pressures of study piled onto the pressure of just trying to fit in. But Casey Spencer has bigger problems, emotional problems maybe (she isn’t really sure), but maybe something bigger. ... read more   (approximately 2150 words) posted 10-20-2009 Dibs Times are hard. Hard enough for Sonny Chandler, a copier salesman with a three-state territory, to look for ways to supplement a dwindling income. Breaking and entering - nothing big or elaborate, just some mom-and-pops - seems to fit the bill. Only for a while, though, and just 'til things get better. He's just coming from his latest score when inattention and a scattering of gravel on a winding mountain road leave him trapped and paralyzed in his car in the bottom of a narrow ravine. Invisible from the road, it is only by luck that the accident - and Sonny - is stumbled on by a group of kids. ... read more (approximately 5100 words) posted 10-20-2009 The Underwood Michael Sapir is a writer searching for the proper tool. When he runs across an old Underwood Noiseless Portable offered up for sale, he thinks he’s found it, but when his stories start turning up later as murders on the evening news, he’s no longer sure what he’s found. The old machine has a history of which he is unaware, last used by a correspondent in the closing days of World War Two, killed in France near the Collegial Ste. Laurent, the resting place of the prophet, Michel de Nostredame.  ... read more (approximately 9500 words) posted 10-28-2009

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