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    The Hitchhiker
    The Hitchhiker
    The Hitchhiker
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    The Hitchhiker

    By J.P.H. Morgan

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    A short story of a young man who hitched a ride and got more that he bargained for.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ.P.H. Morgan
    Release dateMay 5, 2018
    ISBN9780463430064
    The Hitchhiker
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    J.P.H. Morgan

    I am a 65-year old recently retired individual with a varied career from sales to recycling to information technology to bus driving. I have always liked to write, but work and family choices always got in the way. Now that I am retired, I am looking forward to writing more stories to share with you, mainly science fiction, fantasy and horror, but perhaps a few other genres mixed in as well.

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      The Hitchhiker - J.P.H. Morgan

      The Hitchhiker

      By J.P.H. Morgan

      Copyright 2018 J.P.H. Morgan

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      God it was hot.

      For a late August, it was unseasonably hot, especially out here on the road between Sault Ste Marie and Sudbury. I was somewhere a few kilometres east of Algoma Mills on Highway 17. The old wagon-burner who picked me up in his rattletrap truck just outside of the Soo this morning had dropped me off in the middle of nowhere, then disappeared up some dirt road into the bush. More than likely off to poach some deer I thought.

      My hope of making Espanola by mid-afternoon was fading fast. I figured that if I got to Espanola maybe I could crash at home of a girl I knew from school who lived there. Might be a chance for some fun that evening, she being female and all. We had had a fling last year, but I was not interested in anything more than wham, bam, thank

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