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    Ginger's Marble
    Ginger's Marble
    Ginger's Marble
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    Ginger's Marble

    By Erik Gustafson

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    The family that feeds together strays together. It’s about family. It’s about zombies. It’s about Ginger.

    This short story was selected as a finalist in a fiction contest by Brains magazine .

    Bonus content: please enjoy the first chapter of my coming of age horror novel "Fall Leaves and the Black Dragon"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErik Gustafson
    Release dateMay 22, 2012
    ISBN9781476363561
    Ginger's Marble
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    Erik Gustafson

    I spent 20 years serving in the United States Air Force, and have had the fortune to live all over the world, including Iceland, Germany, and in a tent for a year in Saudi Arabia.Always an artist at heart, I produced many paintings during my adventures. After my service, I settled down with my family (wife, two great daughters, 2 cats and a little white fluff dog) in small town Iowa, where I love to volunteer at the antique carousel. Now, I help people with intellectual disabilities to reach their potential and teach psychology classes at a local college.I switched from a paint brush to a pen and am now a horror writer, by night.I am working on my forth novel. I have been published in The Horror Zine, Horrified Press, Sirens Call Publications, Pleasant Storm Entertainment, Crypto and Co., Death Throes Webzine, and several other horror anthologies.

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      Ginger's Marble - Erik Gustafson

      GINGER’S MARBLE

      By

      Erik Gustafson

      Copyright 2012

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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

      Cover art designed by CW Beier at Divine Lunacy Graphic Studio at https://www.facebook.com/divinelunacy as a prize for being selected as a finalist in a BRAINS magazine short story contest (zombieseatpeople.net)

      Ginger is a tomboy and her favorite thing to do is climb trees. Her golden blond hair is always in pigtails and she dresses in jeans and t-shirt most days. The eight year old wouldn’t stand for the cute dresses all her other friends wore. In fact, she preferred to play with boys but her parents steered her toward girls her age, whenever they could.

      There are two large apple trees in her backyard and she has climbed them both a thousand times.

      All she has wanted for Christmas and her birthday for the past three years to find a tree house nestled in one of the apple trees. Her dad probably would have built her a cool one by now, but mom is dead set against the idea. Still, he reminds her often that someday she will have a playhouse.

      Until that day, she perches in the limbs and straddles branches. The first branch of the tree is still out of reach. She wraps her arms and legs around the trunk and shimmies up until she can latch onto the first branch, and then swings up. After that, climbing is cake. She has made it about half way up each of the trees, and her goal is to one day climb all the way to the tops.

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