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    Ghost Town: A Holiday Short, #3
    Ghost Town: A Holiday Short, #3
    Ghost Town: A Holiday Short, #3
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    Ghost Town: A Holiday Short, #3

    By Lita Locke

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    GHOST TOWN - A Comedy Holiday Short

     

    Every closet has its skeletons and every place has its ghosts.  But, in Hollow Win, this is rather the understatement!  And now that there's a new Sheriff in town, he's quite intent on ruining the party.

    If the spooks and spirits can't scare the living daylights out of the living on Halloween ... well, they may as well be dead!  Or find some place else to haunt--and there's no way that the local Mayor is going to let them loose in his city, not when he just got done cleaning it up!

    So, it's up to Audra, her brother Owen and the Mayor to save Halloween, Owen's ghostly tour company and their sanity, not necessarily in that order.  But it's not easy dealing with the undead--especially when they are related to you!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLita Locke
    Release dateOct 20, 2018
    ISBN9781386661085
    Ghost Town: A Holiday Short, #3

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      Ghost Town - Lita Locke

      GHOST

      TOWN

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      (A Holiday Short)

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      ~  Lita  Locke  ~

      GHOST  TOWN

      ( A Holiday Short )

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      Every closet has its skeletons and every place has its ghosts.  But, in Hollow Win, this is rather the understatement!  And now that there’s a new Sheriff in town, he’s quite intent on ruining the party.

      ––––––––

      If the spooks and spirits can’t scare the living daylights out of the living on Halloween ... well, they may as well be dead!  Or find some place else to haunt—and there’s no way that the local Mayor is going to let them loose in his city, not when he just got done cleaning it up!

      ––––––––

      So, it’s up to Audra, her brother Owen and the Mayor to save Halloween, Owen’s ghostly tour company and their sanity, not necessarily in that order.  But it’s not easy dealing with the undead—especially when they are related to you!

      Ghost Town

      Copyright © Lita Locke 2018

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      Cover design by Design for Writers

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      Cover credit:

      Halloween Background © katerinarspb via Shutterstock

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      All rights reserved.

      This e-book is under a limited electronic license.

      Not to be resold, relicensed, reproduced, redistributed or transferred.

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      This is a work of fiction.  All characters, names, businesses, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner.  Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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      Contains moderate adult themes, humor and language.

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      ~  www.litalocke.com  ~

      Books  In  This  Series

      The Cupid Curse

      Funny Bunny Business

      Ghost Town

      Christmas Wishes

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      A Holiday Short Collection

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      CONTENTS

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      Books In This Series

      GHOST TOWN

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      GHOST  TOWN

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      OCTOBER 30  —  DAYBREAK

      Somewhere In The Wild West

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      Dang blast it!  We bin dirty double-crossed, ya’ll.

      Nods of heads and murmurs of mutiny, murder and mayhem sprang up around the crusty old timer as the other folk milling about agreed with his sentiment, if not his outrage.  Some kicked red clods of dirt, others shook their filthy fists and dusty hats in disgust, but all of the assembled mob sure felt the same way he did.

      We put up wit’ that varmint since ‘e rode on in ‘ere, but this ain’t proper.

      The goldminer’s gaze strayed back to the newly erected sign right on the edge of their tiny town limits, to the wooden stake slammed into the baking hot soil, a sheet of tin metal glinting in the sun.  Etched on it, the new rules for entry into their slice of dusty desert home sweet home.

      It read ...

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      Welcome to Hollow Win, Stranger.

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      We’re peace abiding citizens hereabouts, and a peace lovin’ town, and I aim to keep it that way.  If you can’t keep to the rules, then you and your horse just keep on a’going.

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      Here in Hollow Win, we don’t take too kindly to:

      Spitting

      Cussing

      Cattle rustling

      Stealing a man’s horse

      Cheatin’ at cards

      Drinking

      Gambling

      Immoderate wimmen folk

      Shooting a man in the back

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      Oh and ...

      NO HUMANS!

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      Signed,

      The New Sheriff

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      If all that weren’t

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