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    The Day Time Stopped Moving
    The Day Time Stopped Moving
    The Day Time Stopped Moving
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    The Day Time Stopped Moving

    By Tom Beecham and Bradner Buckner

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013

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      The Day Time Stopped Moving - Tom Beecham

      Project Gutenberg's The Day Time Stopped Moving, by Bradner Buckner

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      Title: The Day Time Stopped Moving

      Author: Bradner Buckner

      Illustrator: Thomas Beecham

      Release Date: October 26, 2008 [EBook #27053]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVING ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

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      THE DAY

      TIME

      STOPPED

      MOVING

      By BRADNER BUCKNER

      Dave Miller pushed with all his strength, but the girl was as unmovable as Gibraltar.

      All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he'd pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no pitchforks or halos. He might just as well have saved the bullet!

      Dave Miller would never have done it, had he been in his right mind. The Millers were not a melancholy stock, hardly the sort of people you expect to read about in the morning paper who have taken their lives the night before. But Dave Miller was drunk—abominably, roaringly so—and the barrel of the big revolver, as he stood against the sink, made a ring of coldness against his right temple.

      Dawn was beginning to stain the frosty kitchen windows. In the faint light, the letter lay a gray square against the drain-board tiles. With the melodramatic gesture of the very drunk, Miller had scrawled across the envelope:

      This is why I did it!

      He had found Helen's letter in the envelope when he staggered into their bedroom fifteen minutes ago—at a quarter after five. As had frequently happened during the past year, he'd come home from the store a little late ... about twelve hours late, in fact. And this time Helen had done what she had long threatened to do. She had left him.

      The letter was brief, containing a world of heartbreak and broken hopes.

      "I don't mind having to scrimp, Dave. No woman minds that if she feels she is really helping her husband over a rough spot. When business went bad a year ago, I told you I was ready to help in any way I could. But you haven't let me. You quit fighting when things got difficult, and put in all your money and energy on liquor and horses and cards. I could stand being married to a drunkard, Dave, but not to a coward

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