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    Four Short Stories (Ideal For Reading While Waiting In Lines)
    Four Short Stories (Ideal For Reading While Waiting In Lines)
    Four Short Stories (Ideal For Reading While Waiting In Lines)
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    Four Short Stories (Ideal For Reading While Waiting In Lines)

    By Nicholas Jankovic

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    Four short stories which are ideal for reading while you're waiting in line. Read of the intriguing thoughts of a paperclip-obsessed man, the world around a Zen-store owner and an interior designer, a man on a bus and a meal to awaken the senses. Are you still waiting in line? Welcome back my friend! Nicholas Jankovic is an author or fiction and non-fiction who also enjoys adventures while standing in line.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNicholas Jankovic
    Release dateJan 23, 2012
    ISBN9781466021624
    Four Short Stories (Ideal For Reading While Waiting In Lines)
    Author

    Nicholas Jankovic

    Nicholas Jankovic is an author or fiction and non-fiction who also enjoys adventures while standing in line.

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      Four Short Stories (Ideal For Reading While Waiting In Lines) - Nicholas Jankovic

      Four short stories (ideal for reading while waiting in lines)

      By

      Nicholas Jankovic

      Smashwords edition

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      Four short stories (ideal for reading while waiting in lines)

      Copyright © 2012 by Nicholas Jankovic

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Your support and respect for the property of this author is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      Adult Reading Material

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      Please note I use Australian spelling throughout. You will see doubled letters (e.g. focussed), ou’s (e.g. colour) and ‘re’ (centre) as well as a few other differences from American spelling.

      I hope you enjoy the story as much as I enjoyed writing it.

      *****

      Chapter 1: Short story of paperclips

      I am afflicted with what may not be a rare disease - I cannot throw out a paperclip no matter how contorted it

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