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Mysterio the Great
Mysterio the Great
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Franklin Mysterio has been a magician a long time. He hasn't been very successful until he discovers a new trick. Soon afterward a stranger appears and offers to help him. Then things start to go terribly wrong.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherTed Stetson
Release dateFeb 26, 2013
ISBN9781301201372
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Ted Stetson

Ted Stetson is a member of SFWA. He was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island and went to Seton Hall and Hofstra. He graduated from the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas. He was awarded First Place by the Florida Literary Arts Council and First Place in the Lucy B. McIntire contest of the Poetry Society of Georgia. His short fiction has appeared in Twisted Tongue, MysteryAuthors.com, Future Orbits, State Street Review, and the anthologies; One Evening a Year, Mota: Truth, Ruins Extraterrestrial Terra, Ruins Terra and Barren Worlds. His books include: Night Beasts, The Computer Song Book.

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    Mysterio the Great - Ted Stetson

    Mysterio,

    The Great

    By Ted Stetson

    Published by Three Door Publishing

    Copyright © 2013 Ted Stetson

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    Mysterio, the Great

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    At one time Franklin Mysterio was one of the world's worst magicians. When he pulled a rabbit out of a hat sometimes he came out with nothing, a few times he held a dead rabbit and then there was the incident of the white rat. A magic store had sold him a furry white rat and said it was a short eared Panamanian rabbit. After a few performances the glued on fur started falling out and the audience laughed at him.

    Frank even had trouble pulling coins from behind people's ears. Sometimes he pulled coins, sometimes nothing and once he accidentally pulled off someone's prosthetic ear. And let us not forget his card tricks that didn't work. Performance after performance cards would squirt, fly, waterfall, out of his hands, whole decks at times. Diamonds, clubs, hearts, spades, flew every which way as if out of a tornado. People in the first row filed paper cut lawsuits.

    Then Frank bought a pen. No ordinary red ink pen, but a golden magic pen. He encouraged people to bring posters to his performance. During one performance he drew a circle on a poster of the French Revolution and pulled out the gristly, bloody head of Marie Antoinette. People ran from the theatre screaming. The management threatened to throw him out. During his next performance he drew a red circle on a poster of William Shakespeare's Stratford-on-Avon and produced a lost play of Shakespeare which scholars

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