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    Way Out
    Way Out
    Way Out
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    Way Out

    By Ted Stetson

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    Stefan just started work and when he's alone in his office he hears beautiful music sounds coming from a hole in the wall. When he investigates he smells wonderful aromas. He starts making the hole bigger and bigger until he can fit through the hole into the chimney.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTed Stetson
    Release dateMay 10, 2012
    ISBN9781476453903
    Way Out
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    Ted Stetson

    Ted Stetson is a member of SFWA. He was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island and went to Seton Hall and Hofstra. He graduated from the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas. He was awarded First Place by the Florida Literary Arts Council and First Place in the Lucy B. McIntire contest of the Poetry Society of Georgia. His short fiction has appeared in Twisted Tongue, MysteryAuthors.com, Future Orbits, State Street Review, and the anthologies; One Evening a Year, Mota: Truth, Ruins Extraterrestrial Terra, Ruins Terra and Barren Worlds. His books include: Night Beasts, The Computer Song Book.

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      Way Out - Ted Stetson

      Way Out

      By Ted Stetson

      *****

      Published by Three Door Publishing

      Copyright © 2012 by Ted Stetson

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      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      *****

      Cover art by Thomas Rosenmai

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      Contents

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      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      About the Author

      Romance Stories

      Science Fiction Stories

      Other Stories

      Books

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      Way Out

      by Ted Stetson

      Chapter 1

      Stefan MacMann drove his little white car across a barren plain into the blinding rising sun.

      The speed limit dropped as he neared Grinde City. Alongside the road was a Grinde City Limits sign, bullet holes obliterated the population number. When he went around the bend he saw a line of smokestacks pumping gray smoke into the sky. He sensed it was trying to tell him something.

      The first day he arrived early and parked in the lot across the street from an old red brick building. He rolled down his window and breathed in the morning air. After a few coughs he closed the window and sat in his car and watched. The employees pulled up in old cars and sat in the parking lot waiting. Some clients were dropped off in big expensive cars or came in large new pickups and stood in line on the sidewalk, waiting.

      A pale green Cadillac parked a few places over and a fat woman squeezed out of the door. Everyone on the sidewalk looked somewhere else or pretended not to notice. She crossed the road to the brick building and unlocked

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