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    Uninvited Strangers
    Uninvited Strangers
    Uninvited Strangers
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    Uninvited Strangers

    By Jae Loren

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    Book I. Uninvited Strangers;
    When a game of catch-ball suddenly goes wrong, Oliver wakes up in a place unlike any other.Soon his mind recalls the young blonde girl who would tell stories in the classroom. Alice said it was always tea time with the Hatter, but looking at the man on the opposite side of the table, Oliver was sincerely beginning to believe he had come down the wrong rabbit hole.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJae Loren
    Release dateJun 19, 2012
    Uninvited Strangers
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    Jae Loren

    Jae Loren is a California-born, Jersey-raised young writer who has been creating words on paper and word processors since she first submitted a story in third grade about a dream jar. She is a self-proclaimed linguaphile and traveler at heart; she loves to incorporate other cultures and languages into her writing wherever possible. Her goal is to write stories in each of her favorite genres, and to pen stories that everyone can enjoy. More excerpts as well as details about her stories and current projects can be found at her blog: http://drabblingwhymzie.wordpress.com

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      Uninvited Strangers - Jae Loren

      Afternoon Ceylon, A Chroniker, & the Shattered Looking Glass

      Book I: Uninvited Strangers

      By Jae Loren

      Afternoon Ceylon, A Chroniker, & the Shattered Looking Glass

      Book I: Uninvited Strangers

      By Jae Loren

      Copyright 2012 Jae Loren

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      Very Late

      Very Late

      It was always tea-time with the Hatter, Alice had said, but he hadn’t decided to test the truth for his own edification. Oliver must have come down the wrong rabbit hole.

      He had half-listened to her stories when they were children, all about that fanciful place hidden away beneath the ground, with its glamorously frightful Queen and slightly disturbed inhabitants.

      Alice had called it Wonderland. While the rest of the classroom was memorizing arithmetic and various psalms, Alice drifted off with a vacant expression by the back window, her tablet filled with scratched stencils. Like all the other children, Oliver had paid her no mind and threw mud on her dress when she annoyed him enough, which she did easily by not responding to the insults. He had laughed and jeered at her and called her names, but thinking back to

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