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    Words

    By Mike Ramon

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    A short story. Our narrator lies in a hospital bed. He was told a secret, and now he can't forget it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Ramon
    Release dateNov 13, 2015
    ISBN9781311767707
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    Mike Ramon

    Born and bred in the Midwest.

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      Words - Mike Ramon

      WORDS

      by Mike Ramon

      © 2015 M. Ramon

      Smashwords Edition

      This work is published under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0). To view this license:

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      The display of the machine next to my bed has all sorts of numbers on it. My blood pressure, my heart rate. The curtain is slightly open, and a shaft of warm sunlight falls over the foot of the bed. It hurts to move, and even if it didn’t I wouldn’t be able to move much anyhow. I can still feel the bite of the

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