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    Last Stop: Storyville
    Last Stop: Storyville
    Last Stop: Storyville
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    Last Stop: Storyville

    By Sharon E. Cathcart

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    Riding a New Orleans streetcar is an everyday occurrence for Tulane freshman Jimmy Arceneaux ("Bayou Fire"). But one evening, things are different. Find out how in "Last Stop: Storyville."

    "Last Stop: Storyville" is the first entry in award-winning author Sharon E. Cathcart's Pocketful of Stories series. This edition also includes a sample chapter from "Bayou Fire."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSharon E. Cathcart
    Release dateSep 10, 2018
    ISBN9780463803400
    Last Stop: Storyville
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    Sharon E. Cathcart

    Award-winning author Sharon E. Cathcart (she/her) writes historical fiction with a twist!A former journalist and newspaper editor, Sharon has written for as long as she can remember and generally has at least one work in progress.Sharon lives with her husband and several rescue cats in the Silicon Valley, California.

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      Last Stop - Sharon E. Cathcart

      Last Stop: Storyville

      Pocketful of Stories No. 1

      Copyright Sharon E. Cathcart, 2018

      Cover design by Sharon E. Cathcart

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      All rights reserved.

      This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means without prior written permission of the authors, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.

      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author.

      With the exception of historical persons and events cited in the text, this is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons is entirely coincidental.

      Last Stop: Storyville

      Sharon E. Cathcart

      There were few things Jimmy Arceneaux liked more than having his girlfriend, Cindy, touch his hair.

      He said as much while Cindy braided his shiny black locks as they sat under the Mardi Gras oak at Tulane University, where Jimmy was in his first year of pre-med. Jimmy’s hair hung just past his shoulder blades; he’d been growing it since his first day of high school, when he informed his hairdresser mother that he didn’t want a haircut for school that year. The agreement was that as long as he took care of it, that was fine. The end result was that Jimmy’s hair was the envy of just about every woman he met.

      Jimmy stayed with his great aunt, Julie, who lived in a camelback shotgun house around the corner from campus. She was

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