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    Nancy Werlock's Diary: A Deal With the Devil: Nancy Werlock's Diary, #11
    Nancy Werlock's Diary: A Deal With the Devil: Nancy Werlock's Diary, #11
    Nancy Werlock's Diary: A Deal With the Devil: Nancy Werlock's Diary, #11
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    Nancy Werlock's Diary: A Deal With the Devil: Nancy Werlock's Diary, #11

    By Julie Ann Dawson

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    Nancy Werlock didn't want to take over the family business. Because for Werlock women, the family business is demonology. And at the Three Wishes Boutique, the customer may not always be right, but he may possessed. 

    Three short stories (Approximate word count 8,000 words)

    The Things People Bury

    When Steve asks Nancy to investigate a rumor of ghul activity in Bridgeton, she and Houston dig up something other than corpse-eating undead.

    A Deal With the Devil

    Nancy gets an unexpected customer in the shop looking to trade…nail clippings.

    Careful What You Wish For

    Nancy learns the fate of the man who killed her mother in a drunken driving accident.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBards and Sages Publishing
    Release dateApr 10, 2015
    ISBN9781513096025
    Nancy Werlock's Diary: A Deal With the Devil: Nancy Werlock's Diary, #11
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    Julie Ann Dawson

    Julie Ann Dawson is an author, editor, publisher, RPG designer, and advocate for writers who may occasionally require the services of someone with access to Force Lightning (and in case it was not obvious, a bit of a geek). Her work has appeared in a variety of print and digital media, including such diverse publications as the New Jersey Review of Literature, Lucidity, Black Bough, Poetry Magazine, Gareth Blackmore’s Unusual Tales, Demonground, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. In 2002 she started her own publishing company, Bards and Sages. The company has gone from having two titles to over one hundred titles between their print and digital products. In 2009, she launched the Bards and Sages Quarterly, a literary journal of speculative fiction. Since 2012, she has served as a judge for the IBPA's Benjamin Franklin Awards.

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      Nancy Werlock's Diary - Julie Ann Dawson

      Bards and Sages Publishing

      Bellmawr, NJ

      www.bardsandsages.com

      © 2015 Julie Ann Dawson. All rights reserved.

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      Episode Eleven of the Nancy Werlock’s Diary Series

      Features Three Nancy Werlock Stories:

      The Things People Bury

      When Steve asks Nancy to investigate a rumor of ghul activity in Bridgeton, she and Houston dig up something other than corpse-eating undead.

      A Deal With the Devil

      Nancy gets an unexpected customer in the shop looking to trade...nail clippings.

      Careful What You Wish For

      Nancy learns the fate of the man who killed her mother in a drunken driving accident.

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      These stories are works of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living, dead, or undead is coincidental and vaguely disturbing.

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      The Things People Bury

      October 12,

      You still have the lead box, don’t you? asks Evoker Geoffrey.

      That really isn’t the point, I reply. I can’t keep him.

      As a Rank Two Demonologist, you don’t require any special permission to house a fiend.

      "That isn’t what I meant. I won’t keep him. This isn’t my job."

      I’m sorry. The situation at the hall is...complicated. With the thought beasts multiplying, we have to contain the current problem before we can inter any other entities, particularly something as powerful as a fiend.

      You know, I have this vague memory of someone saying ‘we once housed a balor here. We can handle a thought beast.’

      Sarcasm does not become you, Nancy.

      Where is the Archmage?

      He’s in the containment area. He wanted to get a firsthand survey of the situation. You know, if you and your apprentice—

      I hang up before he finishes the sentence.

      In July, Houston and I stumbled across a thought beast while performing a routine faux exorcism. This particular thought beast took the form of a creature from the old horror movie Gremlins.  We managed to capture it and took it to the Philadelphia Evocation Center for containment and destruction. Well, they should have destroyed it. But then the thought beast morphed into the cute, cuddly version of the Gremlin and they named it Gizmo and decided to keep it for observation.

      Now apparently the apprentices responsible for feeding the creature and recording the

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