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    Reach's Roaches
    Reach's Roaches
    Reach's Roaches
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    Reach's Roaches

    By Mark S. R. Peterson

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    KYLE REACH has a family secret. A strange disease that fatally strikes the males in the family by their mid-twenties. His wife CHARISSA prays the disease skips Kyle, for she doesn’t want to spend the better part of her life a widow. She doesn’t want to raise her unborn son by herself either.

    But there is something more to the Reach women, Kyle’s mother and grandmother, than just surviving widows.

    This short story was originally published in the IF WALLS COULD TALK short story collection. Buy it now. Or purchase the complete collection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark S. R. Peterson
    Release dateOct 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370879410
    Reach's Roaches
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    Mark S. R. Peterson

    Born in small-town northwestern Minnesota, Mark S. R. Peterson knew he had a love of writing as far back as 2nd grade.His genre interests are as expansive as his musical tastes–from classics like Mozart and Beethoven to heavy metal like Poison and Metallica. He writes thrillers, horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and even dabbles into nonfiction and inspirational.He is a graduate of Bemidji State University, majoring in criminal justice and psychology. He wrote his first book between homework and achieving his 2nd Dan black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He has over 15 years of law enforcement experience and currently lives, according to a Washington Post article, in the “ugliest county” in the United States.BEHOLDER’S EYE is his first published thriller novel, the first in his Central Division Series. KILLZONE is the first in his Shadowkill trilogy.

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      Reach's Roaches - Mark S. R. Peterson

      Reach’s Roaches

      A Short Story

      By Mark S. R. Peterson

      Copyright 2015 © Mark S. R. Peterson

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      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      I don’t believe there was ever a time in Kyle Reach’s younger life that he wasn’t in the upper echelon of the weight percentile for his

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