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Malady CrossSimon HayesDavid G Stories 04-07

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  • Forty, Love
  • The American Nightmare
  • Vampire Lawn Care
  • Adventurin’
  • Forty, Love

    Three games in and both teams were sweating bullets. The Magicians’ Association of Tennis, the MAT, wrote the rules, but frankly, college tournaments didn’t teach players professionalism. With all the chaotic volleys and explosive shots, it seemed as if anything went in amateur matches. Not so for the United States’ Mage Nationals. The USM Open was nothing like those matches back in school. Gerald Hayes learned the hard way.He wished he knew before reaching the semifinals.Since his university days, Gerald could hardly believe magic tennis still existed. Hundreds of thousands went down the drai...seNone door

    The American Nightmare

    It was supposed to have been their dream home. But neither of them had imagined her vengeful ex-boyfriend would travel almost 5,000 miles to try and burn it down whilst she and her young son were still inside.Amber was born in Houston, Texas, eventually moving to Dallas, meeting and falling in love with her previous boyfriend in her early twenties, getting engaged and giving birth to their son. But, they were from completely different backgrounds and, despite living with him in an almost one-million dollar house and driving around in a limousine, she quickly realised that he cared very little ...seNone door

    Vampire Lawn Care

    He couldn’t recall exactly when having a nice lawn had started to matter to him.He and Mary used to joke about it when they’d moved out from the city, how the neighbors would talk about grass treatments and how tall to mow the blades, how they all had the same houses with the portico and the dormer windows and the multi-crested roofs awww.onedoor.ccnd the two-car garage with the same foreign SUV out front, how they dressed in identical fleece pullovers with logos displayed across the chest and named their children after presidents – Madison, Lincoln, Kennedy – and had boring conversations about unimportant ...seNone door

    Adventurin’

    ​Jed and Tanner took turns rolling the barrel down the road as the sun rose on the Tennessee hollow.  Tanner’s turn usually lasted longer because Jed was talking.  Tanner’s father said that Jed talked like he was being paid by the word.  But Tanner didn’t mind too much; if Jed was talking, then he didn’t have to.  And Jed was always talking.​“I’m tellin’ ya, Tanner.  This is gonna be the biggest thing you and me have ever done.  They will be tellin’ our story to their grandbabies one day. You just wait and see. Why, they may even write a song about us! Can you imagine that, Tanner?  Grown men,...seNone door

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