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    Now We Are Three
    Now We Are Three
    Now We Are Three
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    Now We Are Three

    By Joe L. Hensley

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    Now We Are Three
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    Joe L. Hensley

    JOE L. HENSLEY (1926-2007) is author of numerous crime novels, many featuring Dan Robak, including Deliver Us to Evil and Robak's Witch. He lived in Madison, Indiana.

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      Now We Are Three - Joe L. Hensley

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      Title: Now We Are Three

      Author: Joe L. Hensley

      Release Date: July 2, 2009 [EBook #29290]

      Language: English

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      Where are we going? What will the world be like in the days—perhaps not too distant—when we have tested and tested the bombs to the finite degree? Joe L. Hensley, attorney in Madison, Indiana, and increasingly well known in SF, returns with this challenging story of that Tomorrow.

      now

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      three

      by Joe L. Hensley

      It didn't matter that he had quit. He was still one of the guilty. He had seen it in her eyes and in the eyes of others.

      John Rush smoothed the covers over his wife, tucking them in where her restless moving had pulled them away from the mattress. The twins moved beside him, their smooth hands following his in the task, their blind eyes intent on nothingness.

      Thank you, he said softly to them, knowing they could not hear him. But it made him feel better to talk.

      His wife, Mary, was quiet. Her breathing was smooth, easy—almost as if she were sleeping.

      The long sleep.

      He touched her forehead, but it was cool. The doctor had said it was a miracle she had lived this long. He stood away from the bed for a moment watching before he went on out to the porch. The twins moved back into what had become a normal position for them in the past months: One on each side of the bed, their thin hands holding Mary's tightly, the milky blind eyes surveying something that could not

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