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    Jazz, Monster Collector in: Man Behind the Curtain (Season 1, Episode 16)
    Jazz, Monster Collector in: Man Behind the Curtain (Season 1, Episode 16)
    Jazz, Monster Collector in: Man Behind the Curtain (Season 1, Episode 16)
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    Jazz, Monster Collector in: Man Behind the Curtain (Season 1, Episode 16)

    By RyFT Brand

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    Jazz: Monster Collector, the serialized adventures of Mirth’s only deferred species bond collector. Stories just the right size for your commute, lunch break, or anytime you want a fast, exciting read. Want more? Follow episode by episode as Jazz seeks to uncover the secret force behind the inter-dimensional takeover of the planet she loved, a little place once called Earth.

    Episode 16- Man Behind the Curtin:

    With but a single day to live, Jazz ripped into a rampage of revenge, taking out her enemies with the brash impulses of a Monster Collector with nothing to lose, and the one thing she was certain could not happen did, she lived. Now she’s wanted by the enforcer corps, her office was blown up, and Ship has wandered off to gods know where, so what’s a disjointed, homeless, purposeless Jazz to do? She goes to see the one being she hates and fears most off all, her father. This can’t turn out good.

    Jazz, Monster Collector, Season One: Earth’s Lament:

    Jazz is a deferred species bond collector, which is a polite way of saying, Monster Hunter. She hunts them and whenever she can she destroys them. Her hatred for the bvorcs, goblins, trolls, and fairies that live side by side with humans on the magically conjoined planets called Mirth runs deep. But only Jazz knows why, how deep, and what she’s willing to do to express it. But Jazz’s greatest enemy is the invisible power behind the hostile takeover that destroyed the Earth that she remembers. And that’s one enemy Jazz probably won’t live to face.

    A fast paced futuristic serial with a touch of noir and a lot of trouble.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTricorner Publishing
    Release dateOct 9, 2015
    ISBN9781311623812
    Jazz, Monster Collector in: Man Behind the Curtain (Season 1, Episode 16)
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    RyFT Brand

    RyFT Brand is one of the pen names of writer Robert F Thompson. He lives, writes, wonders, and wanders from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His first novel, A Book of Beginnings was published in 2001. he's just so weird.

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      Jazz, Monster Collector in - RyFT Brand

      Jazz, Monster Collector in:

      Man Behind the Curtain

      season one, episode sixteen

      RyFT Brand

      Tricorner Publishing’s Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015

      This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to

      persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it. This book may be reproduced, copied, and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoy this book, please return to smashwords.com to discover other works by RyFT Brand. I thank you for your support.

      JAZZ, Monster Collector

      Season One: Earth’s Lament

      RyFT Brand

      Episode-16

      Man Behind the Curtain

      I sat struggling to keep myself awake as the gentle, rhythmic swaying of the hover train kept luring me toward sleep. The inane rhetoric of the pleasure-core music piped through the cars wasn’t helping me keep my chin off my chest. It’d been a while since I used public transportation. I would have given in except I was afraid of missing our stop. Besides, I’d just spent the past five days doing little else other than sleeping.

      Pleasure-core was about the only music played anywhere on Mirth. Most of it was produced by the Wizards Council sanctioned composers and anything played though the pubic media corridors had to first be approved by the council. The sound was something like elevator music meets new age meets bubblegum pop, only blander and with even less intriguing lyrics. It was, all of it, designed for the single purpose of putting the listener into a state of witless contentment and there was a dab of magic embedded in the tunes to help nudge the listener toward said desired result. Me, I was immune to it. Not because of any special ability or protection, I’d just seen way too much bad in my life to feel content.

      I was, however, completely under its powerful conjuring of boringness.

      DJ, my trusty sidekick, was sitting beside me. She had her one hundred percent wooly beast scarf drawn up over her mouth and nose, partly to conceal her features as we were both wanted criminals, and partly to block the stench from the wrinkled old skell demon sitting beside her who seemed unabashed at sharing his terrible gastric emissions with everyone on the train. Normally I’d have chucked his withered and rancid ass straight into the gutter, but, like I said, we were wanted. We needed to keep a very low profile, at last for now.

      DJ sat silently staring into space. She’d barely spoken to me since my attack on the wood elves who’d been holding her captive. I knew she felt I’d gone too far by wiping out their entire nation, but I did what I felt was right, no matter how messy right became. That was, after all, what I did. I was Jazz, ruthless and cunning destroyer of monsters and all things Mirthen. I did the things no one else could do, were willing to do, and that needed doing.

      Didn’t I?

      Doubt, uncertainty, regret, these were not normal emotions for me. Neither was being introspective, but ever since my bad judgment call on Mickey the

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