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    The Disturbing Collection
    The Disturbing Collection
    The Disturbing Collection
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    The Disturbing Collection

    By David J. Skinner

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    Collection of nine short stories. A future world, an exorcism, a bank robbery and a fight for survival are some of the tales inside this book. But beware: their protagonists maybe aren't the same way as they pretend...

    Now, you can listen them at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keUT7kWAUFc

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid J. Skinner
    Release dateNov 14, 2014
    ISBN9781311490018
    The Disturbing Collection
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    David J. Skinner

    Nacido en 1974, David J. Skinner cuenta con cinco novelas publicadas, "Los crímenes del ajedrez", "La amenaza", "Masacre en Nueva York", "August. Pecado mortal" y "Una herencia problemática", y participa en varias antologías y recopilaciones de relatos o cuentos, como "Sugiéreme", "El hombre eterno y otros once relatos", "Cuentos por la vida", "Imaginaria", "Gritos contra la violencia de género" o "El último Borbón"--David J. Skinner was born in 1974 in Spain. Novelist since 2011, he is credited with five published novels, "La amenaza", "Los crímenes del ajedrez", "Masacre en Nueva York", "August. Pecado mortal" and "Una herencia problemática". He also participates with short tales in books like "El hombre eterno y otros once relatos", "Sugiéreme", "Cuentos por la vida", "Imaginaria", "Gritos contra la violencia de género" and "El último Borbón"

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      Book preview

      The Disturbing Collection - David J. Skinner

      The Disturbing Collection – Volume One

      By David J. Skinner

      Copyright © David J. Skinner 2014

      Published by Smashwords

      Index of Stories

      This World

      Salvation

      Voices

      A Hold-up

      Survivor

      Obsession

      In the Woods (revised)

      Ten Minutes (revised)

      A Rescue (revised)

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      This World

      Despite feeling how your legs are barely able to hold you, you don’t think even for a moment about stopping to walk. Beside you, an inhospitable landscape up to the horizon; in front of you there is a seemingly endless road.

      At your back, the city. Although don’t want to do it, you turn around and behold the grotesque framework of a ghost town with some sloping skyscrapers still fighting against gravity. A vast number of structures mocking of you, of the entire human race, by surviving their builders.

      Because this world where you live,

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