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    Smokers Corner
    Smokers Corner
    Smokers Corner
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    Smokers Corner

    By Adam Bender

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    Tim loses his addiction for the ho-hum after falling for Samantha during a smoking break.

    "Smokers Corner" is a short and humorous love story about two workers from different companies who hit it off one morning outside their office building. When Samantha doesn't show up the next day, Tim begins to worry he missed his chance at love and will never see her again.

    Author Adam Bender released the story for free as a Valentine's Day gift for fans of romantic comedies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdam Bender
    Release dateFeb 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301919123
    Smokers Corner
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    Adam Bender

    Adam Bender is an award-winning journalist and author of speculative fiction that explores modern-day societal fears with a mix of action, romance and humor.Bender's latest novel is Utopia PR, a speculative satire about a public-relations specialist who struggles to find work-life balance while managing crisis after crisis for a dystopian American president.Previously, Bender wrote The Wanderer and the New West, a near-future western about a rogue vigilante who seeks redemption in a lawless America that fully protects the rights of armed citizens to stand their ground. Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018, the novel also won gold for Dystopia in the 2018 Readers' Favorite Awards and best Western Fiction in the 2018 National Indie Excellence Awards.Bender authored We, The Watched and Divided We Fall in a dystopian series about an amnesiac who struggles to conform in a surveillance society where the government keeps a Watched list of its own citizens. Also, Bender has published several short stories.In his day job as a journalist, Bender covers telecom and internet regulation for Communications Daily. He has won awards for his reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Specialized Information Publishers Association, and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.Bender lives in Philadelphia with his wife Mallika and son Rishi. He's usually a rather modest and amiable fellow.Learn more about the author at WatchAdam.blog. Follow him on Facebook (wethewatched) and @WatchAdam on Twitter and Instagram.

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      Smokers Corner - Adam Bender

      SMOKERS CORNER

      by Adam Bender

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      PUBLISHED BY:

      Adam Bender on Smashwords

      Smokers Corner

      Copyright © 2013 by Adam Bender

      www.adambenderwrites.com

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thanks for reading this eBook. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). You may not sell, rent or otherwise profit from any digital or physical copy of this document. You may not prepare derivative works based upon the content. You may make copies of this eBook so long as you do not remove anything, edit any text, or otherwise modify the document.

      If you like what you read, please tell your friends. This is a self-published work, and a couple emails to a couple buddies can make all the difference. When you’re done, treat yourself to a cookie. You deserve it.

      SMOKERS CORNER

      a short story

      by

      Adam Bender

      Dedicated to Mallika

      ~

      You make me romantic.

      Smokers Corner

      The chill in the air didn’t much bother Tim

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