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    Iron & Metal
    Iron & Metal
    Iron & Metal
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    Iron & Metal

    By M. Demetrice

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    Widowed and suicidal, a grief-stricken wife awakens in the hospital with new hope growing. Will the child growing fill the loss or will Karla completely lose her sanity and give in to the Iron & Metal that took her beloved away?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM. Demetrice
    Release dateFeb 21, 2015
    ISBN9781310885242
    Iron & Metal
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    M. Demetrice

    Indie Writer, M. Demetrice resides in Lufkin, TX and is the author of Multi-Genre Short Stories by a Woman Whose Husband Holds Her Purse. Her many works includes Sadie, The Olds, and Carrot Cain. For fun, she tutors the inspiring young in math and reading. She has a degree in Human Services from Angelina College and has incorporated resourceful information into her moving short story, Poetry’s AIDS. To learn more about M. Demetrice and read her published works, please visit her website at http://marlenahixson.wix.com/mdemetrice

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      Iron & Metal - M. Demetrice

      IRON & METAL

      M. Demetrice

      Copyright © 2015 M. Demetrice

      To obtain permission to excerpt portions of the text, please contact the author at mdemetriceshortstories@yahoo.com.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      IRON & METAL

      It started with iron and metal, colliding at eighty miles an hour, the impact so sudden that he knew nothing of his death only that his love was worth racing to.

      Iron and metal.

      Her first sight

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