A Lifetime Burning In A Moment
By RICK MOFINA
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John Devlin is a mild-mannered actuary and lifelong weakling who has been bullied much of his life, until one day he is forced to search for courage when his family is threatened while vacationing in a remote region far from help. "A Lifetime Burning in a Moment" is a tense, 4,700-word story by acclaimed thriller author Rick Mofina.
It is one of three gripping tales in his crime anthology, THREE TO THE HEART.
About the author:
Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several notable thrillers.
The International Thriller Writers, The Private Eye Writers of America and The Crime Writers of Canada have listed Rick Mofina's titles as being among the best in the world.
His books have been published in some 21 countries and have been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper. For more information please visit www.rickmofina dot com .
RICK MOFINA
Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers. He's interviewed murderers face-to-face on death row; patrolled with the LAPD and the RCMP. His true crime articles have appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Reader’s Digest and Penthouse. He's reported from the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Qatar and Kuwait's border with Iraq. For more information please visit www.rickmofina.com
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A Lifetime Burning In A Moment - RICK MOFINA
A LIFETIME
BURNING
IN A MOMENT
A Short Story
RICK MOFINA
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A Lifetime Burning in a Moment
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Copyright © 2009 & 2012 by Rick Mofina
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the creation of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
A Lifetime Burning
In A Moment
Rick Mofina
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Copyright © 2012 Rick Mofina
Copyright © 2009 Rick Mofina
ISBN 978-1-927114-31-5
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INTRODUCTION
The story, A Lifetime Burning in a Moment,
was first featured in the anthology Dead in the Water, by Rendezvous Press and later appeared in The Penguin Book of Crime Stories, Volume II, edited and introduced by Peter Robinson. It is included in my e-anthology, Three to the Heart, my second small collection of short stories which is the follow up to my first anthology, Dangerous Women and Desperate Men.
I regard the stories collected in Three to the Heart to be among the best of my short crime fiction.
Rick Mofina
Rmofina @ gmail dot com
A LIFETIME BURNING IN A MOMENT
by Rick Mofina
knew the boys who lived in the clapboard houses by the railroad tracks not only liked beating him up, but needed to beat