FICTION BOOKS (5) Amazon/Kindle Brief previews

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Shepherds’ Purse

This is a story about two plants often considered as weeds. They grew outside a local church and always wanted to be inside it. Would they be inside before they died? You need to wait and see.

 

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The Man who always Sprinted

George was a sprinter but one day fell in love and stopped sprinting. His love was not what one would imagine but things were about to change.

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Boy, Could she smell!

What would you do if one of your senses was ten thousand times as sensitive as your other senses? How would you react to the world? This story is about a woman whose sense of smell far exceeded that of any human or animal? She was not like other women. Her organs for her sense of smell were not only in her nose but on her skin all over her body. This had its uses, but it also had serious disadvantages as you will see.

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Coloured Bricks

You probably have visited a seaside where houses in the harbour area are painted light pinks, blues, yellows, even purple. As the sun sets on a summer evening they can seem spectacular and are often depicted on post cards.

This story is not about different coloured houses but about a single house that had different coloured bricks. Who lives there and what do they do? It seems nobody knows but will they find out. One day all is revealed.

 

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The Lady who loved Hairspray

Many women and some men use hairspray to hold their hair in place, or to add shine or lustre. The spray also helps with split ends and protects against sun damage. Daphne not only loved using hair spray she found lots of different uses for it much to the annoyance of many people or anything that came in contact with it. In the end she did one spray too many which had serious consequences.

 

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I’m just going to the Bathroom

We take bathrooms in hotels for granted. Most likely they will have a shower, a toilet, plenty of bars of soap neatly wrapped in glossy paper and a selection of bath and hand towels Lots of things travel down holes in the bathroom but no one would expect when opening the door, to enter another world, but for David this turned out to be the case.

 

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Two Sleepy Boys

Have you ever felt sleepy, probably in a car or in a coach especially when it’s warm? This story is about twins who had a spell put on them which made them sleep at the same time. Talking to anyone would trigger sleeping. With age the amount of time sleeping would increase. Would they find some solution before they both slept all day long for the rest of their lives?