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    Taken
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    Taken

    By Bernard Fancher

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    Epi Martin was an intelligent young girl on the cusp of becoming a mature woman. She enjoyed the nearly unquestioning trust of her mother and the devoted attention of Alfredo, the young man whom she loved and who in turn was entirely taken with her special charms. The future seemed safe and quite certain, until one day of irrevocable change. A short story. (May be unsuitable for some readers.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBernard Fancher
    Release dateJan 30, 2013
    ISBN9781301300204
    Taken
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    Bernard Fancher

    I live on a small and mostly defunct farm in western New York, where the events of a typical day include writing and walking my dogs--items not necessarily listed in order of priority. (At least not from the dogs' point of view.)

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      Taken - Bernard Fancher

      Taken

      A short story

      by

      Bernard Fancher

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 by Bernard Fancher

      All rights reserved

      This ebook is licensed for publication and distribution by Smashwords; except for fair-use applications, its contents may not be reproduced or disseminated without the author’s permission.

      The following story is pure fiction.

      Taken

      Epi Martin combed out her hair as she looked in the mirror, trying to see the young woman she knew she’d become. She sat on the small padded bench that matched the little pink dresser handed down from her mother, and watched as her right hand slid down the left side of her head. Halfway down, she paused once again, halting the comb in mid-stroke, holding that portion of hair slightly out and away before releasing it to fall back into place against the half-shade whiter, no longer exposed, side of her neck. She wondered again if she was truly as pretty as her boyfriend, Alfredo, contended. At sixteen, he was two full years older than she, and, as he put it, already a man, having the previous

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