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    The Race
    The Race
    The Race
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    The Race

    By Mike Bozart

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    A hard-driven, middle-aged, male boss concocts a unique competition for his staff that will take place at night, on bikes, on an abandoned railroad in Appalachia (USA). The motive behind this off-road cycling race is unclear to the five office employees, though the weather is on the fateful mid-October evening. With bright headlamps and puncture-resistant tires, what could go wrong?

    Approx. 4,700 words.

    If this tale were an American movie, it would most likely be rated PG-13 for some foul language.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Bozart
    Release dateNov 14, 2017
    ISBN9781370893201
    The Race
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    Mike Bozart

    Mike Bozart was born in the tidewater area of Virginia (US Navy kid) on a hot afternoon in 1964. He attended a mix of public and Catholic grade schools. After graduating with an Earth Science degree from UNC-Charlotte in 1986, he started doing safety technical writing.Former residences in North Carolina include Raleigh, Greensboro, Wilmington, Carolina Beach, Etowah and Asheville. Charlotte is his current residence. He has also lived in downtown San Francisco (early '90s).Mike has written numerous surreal poem-stories and over a dozen 1500-word quasi-real short stories under the psecret psociety heading. Gold, his first novel, was rough-drafted in just 27 days during a seven-week period (May 23 – July 11, 2013).Mike's first novella was To Morrow Tomorrow (2014); his second was Mysterieau of San Francisco (2015).Mike does artwork under the nom de brosse of m. van tryke.The author is happily remarried (Sharon) with a son (Kirk).

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      The Race - Mike Bozart

      another pSecret pSociety pshort pstory

      The Race by Mike Bozart (Agent 33) | November 2017

      The Race

      By Mike Bozart

      © 2017 Mike Bozart

      John Z. Halpersham III, a 5’-10" (1.78 meters tall); balding; still very much in shape; 44-year-old; often overly demanding; hypercompetitive; currently going through a nasty, lawyer-inflamed, child-custody-involving divorce; salt-and-pepper-Van-Dyke-bearded, bespectacled Caucasian American mid-level project streamliner, just couldn’t stop talking about his idea for a team-building cycling race with his early-30-something work unit of five, four males and one female. He was waving his hands as he spoke and paced to and fro in his 23rd-floor, uptown Charlotte (NC, USA), faux-marble-finished, strategic planning office. When John switched on a ceiling-mounted projector, a crude map appeared on the wall next to him, which looked like this:

      The track for the race will be the New River Trail, Mr. Halpersham boldly stated in his Queens [the borough in New York City] accent. How many of you know where that is? Could I see a show of hands? Now, don’t be shy.

      Two of the men, both white 31-year-olds, Bob and Richard, nonchalantly raised their hands. They respectively thought to themselves: He must have drunk

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