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    The Air of Castor Oil
    The Air of Castor Oil
    The Air of Castor Oil
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    The Air of Castor Oil

    By Jim Harmon

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    Let the dead past bury its dead? Not while I am alive, it won't!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJovian Press
    Release dateJan 2, 2017
    ISBN9781537815046
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      The Air of Castor Oil - Jim Harmon

      THE AIR OF CASTOR OIL

      ..................

      Jim Harmon

      JOVIAN PRESS

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      Copyright © 2016 by Jim Harmon

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      THE AIR OF CASTOR OIL

      THE AIR OF CASTOR OIL

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      IT SURELY WAS ALL RIGHT for me to let myself do it now. I couldn’t have been more safe. In the window of the radio store a color television set was enjoying a quiz by itself and creased in my pocket was the newspaper account of the failure of a monumental human adventure in the blooming extinction of a huge rocket. The boys on the corner seemed hardly human, scowling anthropoids in walrus-skin coats. It was my own time. Anybody could see I was safe, and I could risk doing what I ached to do.

      I turned the corner.

      The breaks were against me from the start. It didn’t come as any surprise. I could never get away with it. I knew that all along.

      There was a Packard parked just beyond the fire plug.

      The metal and glass fronts of the buildings didn’t show back here, only seasoned brick glued

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