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    Beneath a Smiling Sun
    Beneath a Smiling Sun
    Beneath a Smiling Sun
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    Beneath a Smiling Sun

    By Shannon Lee Martin

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    This story is kinda sad (awww) but it has this one part with the smoking remains of a burnt car driven by a char-black skeleton, so there's that. Also, there are gnomes lurking about :D

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShannon Lee Martin
    Release dateDec 10, 2012
    ISBN9781301186747
    Beneath a Smiling Sun
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    Shannon Lee Martin

    Onlinebookclub.org said "The Silent Moment" is . . ."unique" and. . ."very creative". . . :D Feel free to contact me at any time at tlurinothamon@gmail.com

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      Beneath a Smiling Sun - Shannon Lee Martin

      Beneath a Smiling Sun

      by Shannon Lee Martin

      Copyright 2012 Shannon Lee Martin

      Smashwords Edition

      Any similarities between persons, places or things, living, dead, or otherwise, is what it is.

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      My thoughts kept returning to those three resin gnomes I'd bought my mother one eldritch Mothers' Day a couple of years back, with their red hats and boots and their flowing white beards, curly pipes, twinkling eyes and secret smiles. I could almost see thick tendrils of blue-grey smoke wafting from those ornately molded things as I drove home from the nursery I worked at, the rain unable to make up its mind whether or not it wanted to pour down heaven's wrath or just drizzle. It reminded me of one of the many days the threshold was thin, when I might go completely insane.

      My wife Loretta and I had been driving home from the Wal-Mart in Searcy on one of those rare, clear sunny days squeezed between a few dreary, cloudy ones in early March. She was doing the driving, and I was looking at the folks we passed as I sometimes did, talking about something or other as I watched the myriad faces roll

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