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    Locked Up
    Locked Up
    Locked Up
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    Locked Up

    By Mary Kitt-Neel

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    Locked Up is dark short story about what happens when a simple mix-up causes the wrong person to be accused of a petty crime. This is much darker than Mary Kitt-Neel's other work, and represents a different side of her fiction writing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMary Kitt-Neel
    Release dateSep 17, 2010
    ISBN9781452323022
    Locked Up
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    Mary Kitt-Neel

    I am a full-time freelance writer, writing website content and blogs for my clients. I also enjoy writing fiction, both novels and short stories. In addition to being a writer, I spent over a decade as an engineer at an Air Force facility, and I have also worked as a newspaper journalist.

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      Locked Up - Mary Kitt-Neel

      Locked Up

      Mary Kitt-Neel

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      Copyright 2010 Mary Kitt-Neel

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