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    A Fly Landed...
    A Fly Landed...
    A Fly Landed...
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    A Fly Landed...

    By James Russell Allen

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    A day in the mountains. A cabin hide-a-way. What could be better? I’m Sindala...Sindy to most. Don’t cross me. You’ll pay in court. Push too hard and you’ll pay on a coroner’s table.
    A Corvette. Driving fast but not fast enough. Collision. My son trapped—no airbags. Not an accident says the witness.
    Corey Boland, Bo to me, takes risks. He understands how to balance the books...or not. He’s not a friend in court. They killed my son. I’m Bo’s partner, wife and the mother of our son, now dead.
    We play in their court...the court with no rules...no referee...no series. The outcome is final. I’m the Mother. The playing field is the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Russell Allen
    Release dateNov 18, 2014
    ISBN9781311340801
    A Fly Landed...
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    James Russell Allen

    When I was introduced in a writing workshop and asked what I had been writing I responded; “As a CPA, I have been mostly writing financial reports and statements.” The professor’s response was; “Okay then, you are an experienced fiction writer.” Well, I don’t know about that, but I am satisfied to be writing when, where and what I want now. As a freshman in high school, I was placed into a class teaching speed reading. It was a challenge and results were shown almost daily. The readings, while we learned new techniques, were usually from the Reader’s Digest and we were timed and then tested for comprehension. I remember my speeds got up into the thousands of words per minute on some types of articles with over 90% comprehension. This probably began my love of reading. As an adult there was always a stack of books, usually three or more at hand. One year I decided to discover how many books I actually read for that year and it was seventy-two. When a person reads enough, he begins to make judgements about the authors and their writing approaches. It often instills the desire in many of us to try writing on our own. In 2007 I was waiting in a Doctor’s office, (Isn’t that what you are there for, the wait? Don’t they call it the “waiting room?”) when I noticed an article about the Amazon Kindle in Time magazine. I read it twice before I was invited in. By that evening I had ordered the Kindle for $399! I’ve never looked back. Our family room sported some custom made bookshelves filled with books, most of which I had read. I had read many of the Louis L’Amour books in paperback and collected them but one day my wife decided they were taking up too much space on the shelves so she contributed them to a library. Oh well, they are light reading and always entertaining if you are as familiar with the Southwest as I am. Now I can carry my current library in one or another of my electronic devices. The book world has changed, especially for those who are voracious readers. Many of us think we would like to write a book. When we learned about the difficulty and percentage of actually getting published it was, and still is daunting. Now you can write and publish a book yourself and the book can be done quickly and done to the highest standards if you are willing to pay the price in time and the learning required. You can also have paper copies of your book made for purchase on demand on several ebook sites and Amazon. So, being a retired CPA and seeing all of this develop over the past few years, that was the incentive to go forward with a book. With the cost of any e-reader now very affordable, more and more people have one. By the way, now with your device you have something better to do in the “waiting room.”

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      A Fly Landed... - James Russell Allen

      A FLY LANDED…

      a short story by:

      JAMES RUSSELL ALLEN

      A FLY LANDED ...

      Published by James Russell Allen at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Copyright © 2014 James Russell Allen

      All rights reserved.

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      OTHER STORIES BY:

      JAMES RUSSELL ALLEN

      NOVELS

      JACOB’S JOURNAL

      JACOB’S JOURNAL DISCOVERED

      FASTER THAN LIGHT

      FLOATERS

      SHORT STORIES

      CHARLIE

      NIGHT RIDE

      A MAGICAL DAY

      A LITTLE CRAZY

      RAFAEL THE PIRATE

      BLACK ICE

      TWO FOR ONE

      To My Greer Family

      Table of Contents

      ONE

      TWO

      THREE

      FOUR

      FIVE

      SIX

      SEVEN

      Acknowledgements

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