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    Between Grace and Abyss: A Short Story
    Between Grace and Abyss: A Short Story
    Between Grace and Abyss: A Short Story
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    Between Grace and Abyss: A Short Story

    By Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

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    What will happen when a hopeful person meets a grieving one? When a woman who longs for a child meets a man who's recently lost one (and worst of all, she reminds him of the killer), the emotions that are brought up threaten the demise of them both. Maria is heading for the fertility clinic. Today is the day she's been waiting for - when two embryos will be inserted and hopefully decide to implant themselves. It is a special day, filled with hope and anticipation - so she allows herself the luxury of ordering a taxi to get there. But the driver of the taxi is Peter - a man who lost his child in a murder-suicide tragedy, and he doesn't share Maria's enthusiasm for the events ahead. Will Maria reach the clinic safely, or will she have to pay for the murder of Peter's son?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVictoria Ichizli-Bartels
    Release dateNov 28, 2018
    ISBN9781386453475
    Between Grace and Abyss: A Short Story

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      Between Grace and Abyss - Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

      Between Grace and Abyss

      A Short Story

      Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

      Between Grace and Abyss: A Short Story

      Copyright © 2018 Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

      1st Edition

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      All rights reserved.

      The original version of this short story appeared in April 2013 at victoriaichizlibartels.com

      under the title Thank you for bringing me there!.

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

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the author.

      Cover design by Victoria Ichizli-Bartels and Alice Jago

      The e-book and front cover image ©Canva.com

      Photograph of Victoria Ichizli-Bartels by Click Aalborg

      For those who wish for a child

      PART ONE

      MARIA

      1

      Maria looked at her watch.

      I’ll order a taxi today, she thought to herself. It’s a special day, and we deserve a little luxury, don’t we? She smiled at the thought of what was going

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