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    In the place where she fell
    In the place where she fell
    In the place where she fell
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    In the place where she fell

    By Mary Beth Bass

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    She fell before she knew the edge was there...but none of us--and all of us--know that edge exists.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoroughs
    Release dateMay 4, 2014
    ISBN9781941260227
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      In the place where she fell - Mary Beth Bass

      in the place where she fell

      Mary Beth Bass

      Copyright 2014 Mary Beth Bass

      Smashwords Edition

      in the place where she fell

      She fell before she knew the edge was there…but none of us—and all of us—know that edge exists.

      in the place where she fell

      Mary Beth Bass

      www.BOROUGHSPUBLISHINGGROUP.com

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, business establishments or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Boroughs Publishing Group does not have any control over and does not assume responsibility for author or third-party websites, blogs or critiques or their content.

      IN THE PLACE WHERE SHE FELL

      Copyright © 2014 Mary Beth Bass

      All rights reserved. Unless specifically noted, no part of this publication may be reproduced, scanned, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Boroughs Publishing Group. The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or by any other means without the permission of Boroughs Publishing Group is illegal and punishable by law. Participation in the piracy of copyrighted materials violates the author’s rights.

      Digital edition created by Maureen Cutajar

      www.gopublished.com

      ISBN 978-1-941260-22-7

      For Chris Keeslar

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I couldn’t have written this story without the super nice people, great food, and killer margaritas at Desert Moon, and punk rock sublime, Two Fisted Law, as loud as possible in my ears.

      Thanks to Miriam Kriss for keeping the faith always, and to the rocking writer goddesses of Romance Writers of Southern Connecticut and Lower NY.

      CONTENTS

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Acknowledgments

      in the place where she fell

      Author Bio

      This is the place where time reverses.

      —Elliott Smith

      in the place where she fell

      The end

      When she first got here she dreamt of him, of both of them, every night. She woke up screaming on the street, or under the bridge that crossed the river in the place where no flowers grew. People shook her or kicked her until she quieted. At the river they threw water on her head until she stopped screaming. She’d learned to be quiet since then. Now she hardly dreamt of him at all. Or the boy. But her heart still swelled past the point when it should have broken whenever they came into her thoughts.

      The woman who owned the restaurant died. Sometime earlier, she didn’t know how long, the woman had taken her hand and in front of witnesses placed a writing instrument in her fingers and guided her into scrawling words in the language

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