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    Unsettling Things & Other Stories
    Unsettling Things & Other Stories
    Unsettling Things & Other Stories
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    Unsettling Things & Other Stories

    By Michael D. Britton

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    An anthology of four flash fiction stories. One of fear, one of sentience, one of love, and one of death. (Includes bonus: first chapter of the science fiction novel RUFUS QUINCE: BOUNTY HUNTER - Dreams of a Fool.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntelligent Life Books
    Release dateMar 27, 2012
    ISBN9781476108636
    Unsettling Things & Other Stories
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    Michael D. Britton

    Michael D. Britton has been writing professionally for 25 years, including heading up marketing departments, working in huge private corporations, writing for government entities, supporting non-profit healthcare systems, sprinting with tiny tech start-ups, freelancing, and a producing TV news broadcasts in the 90s. His short fiction has received ten honorable mentions in the Writers of the Future contest, among other recognition; and his novels have advanced through multiple rounds of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in various years. His list of indie-published fiction titles exceeds 65 and keeps increasing. Learn more at www.michaeldbritton.com.

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      Unsettling Things & Other Stories - Michael D. Britton

      Unsettling Things

      & Other Stories

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      Michael D. Britton

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      Copyright 2012 by Michael D. Britton / Intelligent Life Books

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      UNSETTLING THINGS

      Oh, no.

      I must do it again.

      I wish there were another way, but there isn’t.

      Who knows what might be in there?

      Yet another reason I prefer to keep my nails so short that no white is showing. At least that way nothing can get stuck under a nail, pressed up against that tender part where the nail attaches to the skin, lodging there like an unwanted guest.

      Unfortunately, it’s been a few days since I clipped my nails, and there is some white showing, practically inviting some tiny piece of debris to wedge itself in there.

      Some determined crumb is bound to make its way under one of my nails, and I’ll be plagued

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