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    Elliot Savant: A Free Fantastical Fable of Foster Flat Digital Short
    Elliot Savant: A Free Fantastical Fable of Foster Flat Digital Short
    Elliot Savant: A Free Fantastical Fable of Foster Flat Digital Short
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    Elliot Savant: A Free Fantastical Fable of Foster Flat Digital Short

    By W. Bradford Swift

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    Thirteen-year-old Dodger Dean has a vivid imagination that tends to get him in trouble at times — as in six or seven times a day. So much so that his mother has to beg Uncle Matt to take Dodger for a couple months each summer so she can recover a shred of sanity. But Foster Flats where Uncle Matt lives has its own unique characteristics that make for a dangerous combination for a boy like Dodger who sometimes crosses the line with his imaginative stories of adventure and intrigue.

    If you’re a fan of such stories as appeared on The Twilight Zone and those told by writers like Ray Bradbury and Neil Gaiman, you’ll feel right at home in Foster Flat as you journey into the world of a thirteen-year-old with an imagination that often clashes with the real world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. Bradford Swift
    Release dateMar 27, 2015
    ISBN9781311966087
    Elliot Savant: A Free Fantastical Fable of Foster Flat Digital Short
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    W. Bradford Swift

    W. Bradford Swift writes visionary fiction of the fantasy and science fiction variety for children and young adults to inspire them to become joyful lifelong readers by introducing them to the pure pleasure of reading. Swift believes reading for pleasure stretches the imagination of young readers in ways that TV, movies, or video games do not. He also loves to encourage young people to write their own stories, knowing that some of them will grow into the world’s future authors as he did. As a former small animal veterinarian, animals often play an important role in his stories.

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      Elliot Savant - W. Bradford Swift

      ELLIOT SAVANT

      W. Bradford Swift

      ELLIOT SAVANT

      Published by W. Bradford Swift at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This  e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book 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.

      ISBN- (electronic edition) 9781311966087

      1. Fantasy 2. Magic Realism

      Copyright © 2015, W. Bradford Swift

      Typeset in Book Palatino

      Printed in USA

      First Edition

      Acknowledgments

      Thanks to all my fellow Clarion West students and the great instructors who inspired us to write from the heart.

      Hello and welcome to the madcap world of my imagination. I’m thrilled you’re giving me the opportunity to entertain you with my short story, Elliot Savant. I wrote it during my weeks at Clarion West more years ago than I care to say (and then revised, revised, revised it) to its present form. The story takes place in Foster Flats, North Carolina and will eventually become part of The True Fantastic Fables of Foster Flat short story anthology in the future. I hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to hear your comments on it. Feel free to drop me a message at brad@wbradfordswift.com . (I’d also appreciate a fair and hopefully positive review.)

      You’ll also find on the next page an offer for a free copy of Seeds of a New Birth which I’ve written and published under my pen name of Orrin Jason Bradford in the hopes my young middle-grade and YA readers won’t pick it up by mistake. If you enjoy SF thrillers with a genetic engineering theme (and don’t mind adult themes and a some sexual content) please give it a try.

      And thanks for giving me the opportunity to do what I love — to write, entertain and inspire.

      W. Bradford Swift

      www.wbradfordswift.com

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