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    Throwaways
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    Throwaways
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    Throwaways

    By Jack Ewing

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    A down-and-out man sleeping under a bridge stumbles upon the body of a murdered young woman stuffed in a trash bag and washed up at his campsite. The killers, seeking to retrieve a telltale item from the corpse, soon arrive at the bridge while following the river in search of the victim. The derelict soon finds himself hiding with the body and wrestling with the need for self-preservation, and the desire to bring the dead woman's murderers to justice.

    A work of short crime from our Fingerprints line.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUntreed Reads
    Release dateAug 23, 2011
    ISBN9781611871494
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      *Book source ~ Many thanks to Untreed Reads for providing a review copy in exchange for an honest review.One night a homeless man camping out under a bridge sees a garbage bag floating down the river. After pulling the bag to shore he discovers a dead naked woman inside. He sits there stunned for a bit then spends some time wondering who she is and what happened to her, but when a car comes along he grabs his stuff, erases the evidence of his having been there and takes the woman with him to hide beside the river. What he overhears changes something inside him.This is a great short story about someone who has lost his way. Sometimes it takes a simple thing to get someone back to a ‘normal’ way of life and sometimes it takes a dead body. I hope that for most people who find themselves like this guy that it would take something simple and not something extreme like a murdered person to get them to rejoin the rest of the world. Take a few minutes and read this. You won’t regret it.

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    Throwaways - Jack Ewing

    Throwaways

    By Jack Ewing

    Copyright 2011 by Jack Ewing

    Cover Copyright 2011 by Dara England and Untreed Reads Publishing

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