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    Crescendo: A Collection Of Very Short Stories
    Crescendo: A Collection Of Very Short Stories
    Crescendo: A Collection Of Very Short Stories
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    Crescendo: A Collection Of Very Short Stories

    By Juliet Boyd

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    Crescendo is a collection of ten very short stories encompassing romance, horror, science fiction and the just plain weird.

    What would life be like if all your emotions were played as music? What lurks in the spaces between the leaves? And what would it be like to wait for a time traveller from the past to arrive at the specified time? These are just some of the questions posed by the stories in this book.

    The story Crescendo was the winner of Round Two of the 2010 Slingink Scribbling Slam and Negative Effect won the 2010 Micro Horror competition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJuliet Boyd
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781301017683
    Crescendo: A Collection Of Very Short Stories
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    Juliet Boyd

    Juliet lives in Somerset in the south-west of England. She used to work in administration, but now writes full-time. Her main writing interests are fantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, horror and flash fiction. Details of her work are available on her website.

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      Crescendo - Juliet Boyd

      CRESCENDO

      A collection of very short stories

      by Juliet Boyd

      Smashwords edition

      Copyright 2012 Juliet Boyd, all rights reserved.

      Discover Juliet Boyd at Smashwords.com

      This book is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and events portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locations, is entirely coincidental.

      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 image Copyright Jinyoung Lee | Dreamstime.com

      CONTENTS

      CRESCENDO

      WI-FI

      NEGATIVE EFFECT

      HER CHOICE

      ONE SECOND

      GIFTED

      FILLING THE VOID

      A NEW HOME

      THE CLEANSING

      IF ELEPHANTS COULD DO FREE-RUNNING

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      CRESCENDO

      She hates the sound of violins.

      I knew that before we started going out. She wasn't the

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