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    Jumpers
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    Jumpers

    By Norm Applegate

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    Gypsy Lore. Fortune Telling. Black Magic

    Twelve million Gypsy’s in the world.
    They have the gift. Good fortune or destroy with a curse.
    Two men visit one. The wrong one. Money is exchanged. She looks into their eyes. A wish is granted!

    Sorcery!

    You’ll never drive over a bridge again without looking left, right...Jumpers!

    Jumpers is a 5000 word short story by thriller writer Norm Applegate, Into the Basement and First to Die.

    About the author

    Norm Applegate is the author of four novels, and is best known for his horror thriller, Into the Basement.

    Cover art and design by James Rone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorm Applegate
    Release dateJun 6, 2011
    ISBN9781458127457
    Jumpers
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    Norm Applegate

    I live in Sarasota, and I write thrillers, horror and paranormal books.I’m also a Mac Fanatic. Smooth Jazz enthusiast. Drummer. Former hypnotist and Horror Movie Fan.Norman Applegate is an author and consultant, with a growing body of work to his credit. Born in Glasgow Scotland, growing up in Toronto Canada and now residing in Sarasota Florida with his wife Cheryl, Norm Applegate works and travels for an international consulting company, then occasionally scares the “heck” out of his family with his thoughts and writings.Bibliography:Novels* (2012) The Prisoner* (2011) Shockwave• (2011) First to Die* (2011) Sadist (Turkish translation of Into The Basement)• (2009) Blood Bar, a vampire tale• (2007) Into the Spell• (2006) Into the BasementShort Story• (2011) JumpersAnthologies:• (2008) From the ShadowsScreenplays:• (20010) Grotto• (2009) Into the Basement (co-writer Nicholas Grabowsky)Norm’s writing began while travelling through New Zealand and Australia as a Hypno-therapist with colorful letters to his family of his tales as a hypnotist and the weirdness it attracts.His early years in Toronto were filled with aspirations of the 60’s Yorkville music scene, and as a drummer in numerous bands led to a short lived career playing the bars and clubs in the Toronto area. The band Photograph, signed to a recording studio, made some noise on the coast to coast CBC radio show, the Entertainers. In 1973 the band worked with Canadian artist & producer Tony Kosinec, (All Things Come From God), and after legal issues strangled them into submission, they went their separate ways. The band members were George Szabo and Stan Meissner, (Stan later wrote for Céline Dion, LeeAnn Womack, Eddie Money, Rita Coolidge, BJ Thomas, Ben Orr (The Cars), Triumph and Toronto). The life of drugs, sex and rock and roll were over, sad but true.After a few years of travel, he had the bug, and entered the world of management consulting to become a road warrior, and is now a 2 million miler with Delta. Away from home and with the desire to write a novel it began. His first book, “Into the Basement,” is a raw, dark thriller, described as "juicy." His second novel of the Kim Bennett series, “Into the Spell,” explores the horror of a copy-cat Son of Sam killer and hypnosis.Early 2008, Norm contributed with a short story called “Jumpers,” into the horror anthology “From the Shadows.”In 2009, Norm developed the screenplay for his novel “Into the Basement,” with Nicholas Grabowsky and director J. L. Botelho of Triad Pictures.In 2010 he released, Blood Bar, a vampire tale and wrote the screenplay for a short horror film, Grotto.

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      Jumpers - Norm Applegate

      Jumpers

      Norm Applegate

      Copyright © 2011 Norm Applegate

      All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Cover art & design by James Rone

      The selections in this book are works of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author.

      Applegate, Norman

      Jumpers/ Norman Applegate - 1st Edition

      Also by Norm Applegate:

      Novels

      * (2011) First to Die

      • (2009) Blood Bar, a vampire tale

      • (2007) Into the Spell

      • (2006) Into the Basement

      Anthologies:

      • (2008) From the Shadows

      Screenplays:

      • (2010) Grotto

      • (2009) Into the Basement

      (co-writer Nicholas Grabowsky)

      For my wife, Cheryl.

      I want to thank James Rone for the outstanding cover

      Jumpers

      The view from the Skyway Bridge is breathtaking from a car, but standing on the edge is frightening. It sways, kind of moves up and down. Vibrates, rumbles. You hear things, weird things, birds, wind, creaking of metal. Bridge metal. Makes you dizzy.

      It was busy. Lots of traffic on both sides of the bridge. Motorists were shocked. Not sure what they were seeing. Car horns whistled every few seconds. Motorists swerved. A man was jumping, suicide. His back to the railing, he stared straight ahead. Johnny Dell had an unobstructed view of Tampa Bay and the fast moving water below. Deep, dark blue, white caps.

      This is awesome. Johnny said.

      He was leaning out toward the sky. A few

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