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    Invisible Time
    Invisible Time
    Invisible Time
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    Invisible Time

    By Janet Dawson

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    Greta and Hank are orphaned and homeless, scrabbling for survival on the cold, rainy streets of San Francisco. 

    In this short story, a noir take on Hansel and Gretel, the little girl struggles to keep herself and her brother from falling through the cracks in this scary urban landscape, where homeless adults help and also prey on lost children.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanet Dawson
    Release dateJan 8, 2017
    ISBN9781944153038
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      Book preview

      Invisible Time - Janet Dawson

      Invisible Time

      By Janet Dawson

      ©1998 Janet Dawson.

      Invisible Time was originally published in 1998 in the anthology Once Upon a Crime.

      Cover by Julia Turner.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Greta watched the front door of the bakery on Geary Street, choosing her moment. When it came, it was brought by a middle-aged woman who wore a business suit and running shoes.

      The woman stopped at the window, eyed the tempting display of cakes, cookies and breads, then moved toward the door. Greta slipped up behind the woman, a pace back from the leather briefcase that swung from her left hand. The woman pushed open the door, her entry ringing the bell above the door.

      The bakery clerk was a gangly young man wearing a silly white paper hat perched on his brown hair. He looked up from his post behind the counter and smiled at the woman. He didn’t see Greta.

      Fine. That’s what she had in mind. Now that she was inside, Greta hovered near the door, keeping one eye on the grown-ups and the other eye on the bakery’s wares. Picking a target was tough. The goods were piled alluringly on counters and shelves and stand-alone displays. Finally she spotted her best shot, bags of day-old cookies mounded high in a basket at the edge of a low table, just a few steps from the door that led out to the busy sidewalk.

      The bakery clerk’s head was down. He was busy boxing up a cake for a customer, a big man with a fat belly. Looked like he got plenty to eat, Greta told herself as she edged closer to the basket. Unlike

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