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    Strange Associations
    Strange Associations
    Strange Associations
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    Strange Associations

    By Darrel Bird

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    A business executive is transferred from his New York office to a southern town in Georgia, his life and his marriage are off track when he has breakfast with a prostitute who is destined to change his life.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateMay 30, 2011
    ISBN9781458121967
    Strange Associations
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    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

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      Strange Associations

      by Darrel Bird

      Copyright 2011 by Darrel Bird

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      From New York to freaking Augusta, Georgia, in one freaking day, on two freaking planes: one plane to Atlanta, then a prop job over to Augusta, a town that smelled like crap and looked worse. Condemned!  That’s what he was, condemned, because his boss had declared one morning at a meeting that he, Joel G. Callahan, was the best in the business of making his company money, said company being a company that sold textile goods from hell to Hong Kong. In other words, he, Joel G. Callahan, would take the Augusta office or get fired.

      So here he was in downtown Augusta, with an upstairs office overlooking Main Street, while his wife was back in New York in her downtown office on the 15th floor overlooking Wall Street, said wife not even coming near to moving to Augusta, Georgia, or anywhere else.

      He, Joel G. Callahan, had a secretary who sat in the outer office looking like a lump, while he, Joel G. Callahan, tried his best to get the single air conditioner that sat in one window to work right. It moaned and groaned as if it had never worked right in all its fifteen years of existence in

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