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    Distilled Shadows
    Distilled Shadows
    Distilled Shadows
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    Distilled Shadows

    By Tim Greaton

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    Focus House Publishing is pleased to present “Distilled Shadows.”

    Tim Greaton has captured our hearts with his emotional novels "The Santa Shop," "Red Gloves," "Under-Heaven," and "Bones in the Tree." But in this collection of short stories, his imagination takes us to a much darker place, a place where Bigfoot wanders the Louisiana Swamps, a place where a wealthy psychotic novelist lives in squalor by choice, and a place where vampires, werewolves and witches wander the streets in search of criminals to punish.

    Inside the pages of “Distilled Shadows” you’ll find the following 8 short stories:

    Dustin Jeckle & Mr. Hydel
    Violin Intentions
    For the Deposit
    Violin and the Frog Motion
    The Shaft
    Once Upon a Stradivarius
    Bayou Bigfoot
    The Halloween Caper

    One reviewer says, "Tim Greaton's fans will follow him to Hell in gasoline raincoats...."

    You're invited to find out why.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFocus House Publishing
    Release dateOct 20, 2012
    ISBN9781301056767
    Distilled Shadows
    Author

    Tim Greaton

    I live in Maine with my beautiful wife and three amazing children. We share 7-acres with 1 dog, 2 cats, and a population of ducks that varies with the weather. I'm a full-time corporate writer and novelist. My fiction, non-fiction and advertising work has appeared in forums all around the globe. A few months back, my novel "The Santa Shop ̈ was republished to Kindle and Nook. My pre-release novel "From My Cold Young Fingers ̈ (soon to be final-released as "Ripped From My Cold Young Fingers ̈) is also available on Kindle. "Zachary Pill, The Dragon at Station End, ̈ "Heroes With Fangs ̈ and my horror novel "Ancestor ̈ will also be available on Kindle in the next few months. My brother's publishing company refers to me as "Maine's Other Author TM ̈ but I prefer just Tim :-).

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      Book preview

      Distilled Shadows - Tim Greaton

      Distilled

      Shadows,

      Anthology

      Of

      Short Stories

      From Maine’s Other Author ™

      TIM GREATON

      BY TIM GREATON and LARRY DONNELL

      Dislocated Man

      Part 1

      Dislocated Man

      Part 2

      Dislocated Man

      Part 3

      ALSO BY TIM GREATON

      Supernatural Suspense and Dark Fiction

      Her Yearning for Blood

      Episode One

      Purchase Here

      A Colonial Evil

      Episode One

      Emotional Fiction

      The Santa Shop

      (The Samaritans Conspiracy - Book 1)

      Purchase Here

      The Santa Shop’s Hollywood Ending

      (Alternative Ending to The Santa Shop)

      Purchase Here

      Red Gloves

      (The Samaritans Conspiracy - Book 2)

      Under-Heaven

      Bones in the Tree

      (A Novella)

      Fantasy & Science Fiction

      The Pheesching Sector

      (A 6,000 word sci-fi story)

      Purchase Here

      (Read a preview at the end of this story)

      Zachary Pill, Of Monsters and Magic

      (Zachary Pill – Book 1)

      Get Your Free Copy Here

      Zachary Pill, With Dragon Fear

      (Zachary Pill – Book 2)

      Purchase Here

      Zachary Pill, Against the Troll

      (Zachary Pill – Book 3)

      Purchase Here

      Zachary Pill, The Dragon at Station End

      Trilogy

      Purchase Here

      Water Golems

      (Two stories from the Zachary Pill Universe)

      Purchase Here

      Heroes With Fangs

      2012

      Her Yearning for Blood

      Episode One

      Purchase Here

      A Shattered Spooth

      (Book 1 in the Wizard’s Prism)

      2012

      For Children

      (How to Build) The Super Loop Airplane

      Contact Tim at

      tim@greateastdevelopment.net

      Read Tim’s Blog at

      timgreaton.blogspot.com

      Distilled

      Shadows,

      Anthology

      Of

      Short Stories

      From Maine’s Other Author ™

      TIM GREATON

      Copyright 2012 by Tim Greaton.

      Published by Focus House Publishing

      Smashwords Edition

      This is a work of fiction. The names and the characters are fictional. Any resemblance to living or dead individuals is purely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, including digital or audio sampling, internet display or download, or any other form of digital or physical display or transfer, excepting only brief excerpts for use in a literary review, without expressed written permission from the author.

      Published by Focus House Publishing

      Dustin Jeckle & Mr. Hydel, a short story

      Violin Intentions, a short story

      For the Deposit, a short story

      Violin and the Frog Motion, a short story

      The Shaft, a short story

      Once Upon a Stradivarius, a short story

      Bayou Bigfoot, a short story

      The Halloween Caper, a short story

      Many of these stories appeared in earlier versions on the Mistress of the Dark Path blog website.

      Cover graphics by Wizards Prism Art & Media

      Contents

      The Halloween Caper

      Violin Intentions

      For the Deposit

      Violin and the Frog Motion

      The Shaft

      Once Upon a Stradivarius

      Bayou Bigfoot

      Dustin Jeckle & Mr. Hydel

      The Halloween Caper

      The Halloween Caper

      Oliver, the phone’s for you, Cassie called out.

      Oliver lifted his foot from the sewing machine petal and pulled the black cloth away from the needle. I’m working on my costume, he yelled down the stairs. Who is it?

      It’s a collect call. Eric Jonestad at the prison? Do you know anyone at the prison?

      Andrew, he thought. It’s about time.

      Oliver left his half-sewn silk cape on the sewing machine and nearly flew down the stairs. No one had heard from their friend Andrew in several weeks. Cassie was standing in the kitchen next to the wall phone, her sleek frame hugged by a tight red dress. The puffy shoulders and sleeves further accentuated her narrow waist. She spun strands of her straight black hair with one finger and made a pouty, red lipstick face.

      Witches aren’t supposed to look like you, he said.

      Grinning she handed him the phone.

      Like what? a deep voice asked as he put the receiver to his ear.

      Cassie’s dressing up as a sexy witch tonight.

      Not to be confused with her sexy everyday witch look, the deep voice said.

      Easy there. She’s mine, Oliver said. So I assume this is you, Andrew.

      The one and only.

      "You know they listen to every conversation,

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