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Stella by Starlight
Category:
Mainstream
Publisher: Old Tiger Books
Type: Fiction
Pages: 15
Copyright: August 2014
ISBN-13: 9780992331146
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
Short story. Lawson is scheming to commit suicide - but Star has the same idea. 5,000 words
Short story. 15 pages approximately. When Charles Lawson, the notorious heroin dealer known as God, is released from jail after ten years, he lives quietly near the sea with his two cats. When his eye specialist tells him he will be totally blind in a few years, Lawson devises an elaborate scheme to commit suicide, making it look like an accident. In the process, he meets Star, who has the same idea. Perhaps they will be abe to help one another. 5,000 words
Excerpt
On the day Charles Lawson planned to kill himself, the day he'd decided had the best chance of success, he rose at six as usual.
"Come on, Cynthia. Time to get up."
The old cat had slept all night on the end of the bed. Now she stretched and rose reluctantly.
"Where's Bruiser?" Lawson asked her. "Where's that young hulk?"
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