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    I’m Going To Die Eight Days From Now
    I’m Going To Die Eight Days From Now
    I’m Going To Die Eight Days From Now
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    I’m Going To Die Eight Days From Now

    By Richard Sanders

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    He was told he had exactly eight days to live. By a blind psychic photographer. Okay, he was plenty crazy, but he asked me to help him. And after surviving threats, shootouts, a mysterious scarred woman and weird predictions that somehow managed to come true, I could only come to one conclusion: Fate is one strange thing to fight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Sanders
    Release dateFeb 13, 2012
    ISBN9781465898586
    I’m Going To Die Eight Days From Now
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    Richard Sanders

    I worked as an Executive Editor at Entertainment Weekly for 11 years and (in two separate stints) at People magazine and people.com for 12 years. I often speak to young journalists and try to use myself as an example for inspiration—a guy who spent time in jail, rehab and a psych ward and somehow went on to become a successful editor at Time Inc. and managed to keep himself sane and alive. I’ve tried to reflect those experiences in these books My wife, Laurie, and I live in Garden City, N.Y..

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      Book preview

      I’m Going To Die Eight Days From Now - Richard Sanders

      I’M GOING TO DIE EIGHT DAYS FROM NOW

      Richard Sanders

      This short story is taken from the opening chapter of The Dead Have A Thousand Dreams, a genre-bending, character-driven literary thriller about prophecy, mortality and salvation.

      The pure plot pitch: He was told he had exactly eight days to live. By a blind psychic photographer. Okay, Wooly Cornell was plenty crazy—not to mention a huge asshole—but he asked me to help him. So I did. And as the countdown to his death started and I found myself facing threats, shootouts, a mysterious scarred woman and weird predictions that somehow managed to come true, I could only come to one conclusion: Fate is one strange thing to fight.

      You can find The Dead Have A Thousand Dreams on Smashwords at:

      http://bit.ly/wqt4S1

      Copyright 2012 Richard Sanders

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return it to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      >>>>>>

      To Laurie with love. I’d be dead without you.

      >>>>>>

      and as you read

      the sea is turning its dark pages,

      turning

      its dark pages

      —Denise Levertov,

      To The Reader

      >>>>>>

      I’M GOING TO DIE 8 DAYS FROM NOW

      >>WEDNESDAY JUNE 13 (8 days to go)

      >>THURSDAY JUNE 14 (7 days to go)

      THIS IS A SENTENCE I DON’T WANT TO FINISH

      WEDNESDAY JUNE 13, 2:15 p.m.

      "The glass is half full, motherfucker!" Those were the first words I ever heard out of Wooly Cornell’s mouth. This was a couple years ago, in a meeting room in the village hall of Hidden Lake, a town on the eastern end of Long Island. Wooly was the owner of Material Witness, a company that tested textiles and fabrics to prevent fading and decaying. He was being sued at the time by a group known as F.L.A.C., the Fatal Light Awareness Committee. Their suit, the subject of the night’s public hearing, claimed that the

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