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    Let Me Read Your Mind
    Let Me Read Your Mind
    Let Me Read Your Mind
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    Let Me Read Your Mind

    By C. M. Marcum

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    Take a short trip with Harry to the FAS Securities Company, where he is about to be interviewed by the unflappable Ms. Wright, and ask yourself what would really happen if someone could read your thoughts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC. M. Marcum
    Release dateMay 3, 2011
    ISBN9781458143563
    Let Me Read Your Mind
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    C. M. Marcum

    I am in each of my stories. Look for me there, hiding in the shadows. Part hero, part villain, I’m always read to take a plot to the extreme, to question the universe on things small and large, and to speculate about the worst and best case scenario of ‘what if.’ I have a background in journalism, one story published in Liquid Imagination and one in Alienskin. As an editor, I’m a tool. As a person, I’m pragmatic. As a friend, I’m quite funny. As a writer, I’m a loner by nature, but have no trouble interviewing Johnny Hobo or Mister Success. I write the stories that come to me, mixed genre they may be. Sorry, I just can’t decide what I want to be when I grow up.

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      Let Me Read Your Mind - C. M. Marcum

      Let Me Read Your Mind

      By C.M. Marcum

      Copyright 2011 C.M. Marcum

      Smashwords Edition

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      He blew fifteen minutes driving in circles around the parking garage. First tier jammed to capacity, second tier over filled with a few delivery trucks illegally parked and a blistering rooftop that supported a few toasty losers baking in the late morning sun. Round again he went. Down this time, back into the shade, hoping in full defiance of logic for a last minute vacancy.

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