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    An Unkindness of Ravens
    An Unkindness of Ravens
    An Unkindness of Ravens
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    An Unkindness of Ravens

    By JT Pearson

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    Jeff has been locked up in solitary confinement for nearly five years when the warden offers him an opportunity to reduce his sentence by joining crews that are repairing the country's energy grid, which has been rupturing and blowing up buildings and people, the unexpected and unfortunate result of changing the nation's fuel. He is added to a crew loaded with the nation's most notorious killers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJT Pearson
    Release dateApr 19, 2013
    ISBN9781301565665
    An Unkindness of Ravens
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    JT Pearson

    JT Pearson is possibly more myth than reality. It is widely believed that he has been around for thousands of years. Archeological digs have uncovered Grecian artwork that suggests that they prayed to him to cure ailments of the feet. Irish legend insists that JT Pearson is that movement in shadow that you’re not certain that you actually saw, or that image at the edge of your peripheral vision that vanishes when you turn toward it. In the upper Midwest of the United States people had claimed that they had several images of JT Pearson captured on film but they were all poor quality and eventually proven to be hoaxes. It is only recently that an artist rendering was discovered in the attic of an old convent that is believed to be authentic. President Richard Nixon had claimed before his death that JT Pearson was the specter that haunted his boyhood home, and quite possibly the reason that his mother left his father for a short time. Nestled among all of these legends and hearsay is the accusation that he is the author of this sight and responsible for the drivel that has been filling your head. Lawyers for JT Pearson advise that if you read his work you do so at your own peril and no form of compensation either monetary or otherwise will be offered for any injuries permanent or short term which are incurred within the pages of his stories. If you’d like to communicate with JT Pearson either burn a photograph of yourself and sprinkle the ashes into the wind at dusk or you may take the more conventional route at thehungryrobot2005@gmail.com P.S. look for novels coming in the near future. For now, please enjoy the many short stories that he has provided for you to read for free. Feedback is much appreciated.

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      An Unkindness of Ravens - JT Pearson

      An Unkindness of Ravens

      By JT Pearson

      copyright 2013 Joseph Pearson

      Smashwords edition

      Hey, boss, I want to talk to you.

      Go away.

      Come on, Jeff, turn around. The visitor sat down, his back against the bars, and his knees tucked in with his arms wrapped around them, inches from the edge of the bed that was snuggly fitted to the tiny confines. I just need to tell you something.

      You’re not real. Please go away, Jack. I want you to stop talking to me. Jeff continued to lay motionlessly facing the wall, easily mistaken for dead if it weren’t for the occasional rise and fall of his rib cage.

      I’m as real as you are, boss.

      Jeff had been laying on that cot in that four by six foot cell facing the same wall, rotting by himself for nearly five years, separated from the regular prison population by recommendation of the prison psychiatrist. The doctor had classified Jeff as delusional, dangerous, confrontational, and irreverent, with an extreme aversion to authority. For years the doctor had been trying to get Jeff to participate in group therapy. Jeff’s real crime when he had been on the outside had been that he was poor. His daughter had needed an operation in order to live and he had nowhere near the money that it would cost. Desperation forced his hand to do the only thing that he could think of to get the money to save Heidi. He tried to knock off a bank. During the attempted robbery things went wrong when a guard decided that he was going to play hero. He sprung up from the floor where Jeff had asked him to lay still and wait until he was out of the building and pulled a gun that he’d had hidden on his ankle. Jeff shot him more out of surprise than anything else. The guard died instantly. Jeff got out of the bank with the money but was picked up by police later. An outside camera had picked him up removing his mask, and someone that knew him saw his face on the nightly news and tipped off the authorities. Jeff ended up getting sentenced to prison, and his daughter Heidi later died. And now, when the doctor spoke to Jeff about therapy he knew who really needed therapy. It was the bastards that would let a four year old girl go to the grave because her daddy didn’t make enough money to pay for all of the fancy gadgets and technology that were available for the rich. Jeff shifted on

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