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    Adele and the Makers
    Adele and the Makers
    Adele and the Makers
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    Adele and the Makers

    By Harvey Stanbrough

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    In a post-apocayptic world, you and a few friends are trying to make a little money cruising the streets, making announcements for the Makers.

    But a really cute chick catches your attention. You'll never see her again, but you can dream. 

    But what if you do see her again? And what if she turns out to be a great deal more?
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrostProof808
    Release dateJun 27, 2017
    ISBN9781386770343
    Adele and the Makers
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    Harvey Stanbrough

    Harvey Stanbrough is an award winning writer and poet who was born in New Mexico, seasoned in Texas, and baked in Arizona. Twenty-one years after graduating from high school in the metropolis of Tatum New Mexico, he matriculated again, this time from a Civilian-Life Appreciation Course (CLAC) in the US Marine Corps. He follows Heinlein’s Rules avidly and most often may be found Writing Off Into the Dark. Harvey has written and published 36 novels, 7 novellas. almost 200 short stories and the attendant collections. He's also written and published 16 nonfiction how-to books on writing. More than almost anything else, he hopes you will enjoy his stories.

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      Adele and the Makers - Harvey Stanbrough

      Adele and the Makers

      Low to the ground and long in the tooth, our car crept along the pitted street.

      The Makers picked us partly because of that car. At least I think so. We had no other qualifications to make us stand out. A hundred or so others had also applied to distribute the Makers’ warnings among the people. But they had chosen us.

      The car did stand out. Even at 40 years of age, it was long and low—they used to call these low riders—and a vibrant, cherry red. And it had the metallic paint, so it sparkled with silver flakes mixed in when the sunlight stuck it.

      The better to call attention to the message of the Makers.  

      Never mind that the three of us were dressed crudely.

      We all wore jeans, with sneakers on our feet. I and José Orosco, the youngest of us, wore ribbed white undershirts too.

      My friend, Rafael Orteño, who owned the car, chose not to wear a shirt at all.

      * * *

      The day before, the three of us stood in line and shuffled toward a set of open double doors. The other side of that opening was the interview and application process. When schools were still open, this was a hallway to a gymnasium.

      Most of the others in line were paired off. I didn’t see any other trios.

      The job for which we were applying call for only two

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