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    The Birdie
    The Birdie
    The Birdie
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    The Birdie

    By Stephen Couch

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    Horror short story. A maternity ward snapshot leads a hospital photographer into a world of occult tragedy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Couch
    Release dateNov 11, 2011
    ISBN9781465893499
    The Birdie
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    Stephen Couch

    Stephen Couch is a writer, a computer programmer, a cover band vocalist, an award-winning audio drama producer, and a lifelong Texan. His short fiction has appeared in such venues as Talebones, Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia, and the Stoker Award-finalist Horror Library Vol. 3.

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      The Birdie - Stephen Couch

      The Birdie

      By Stephen Couch

      Published by Mere Moments Publishing at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Stephen Couch

      Cover image 'Lonely Bird On Electric Wire' copyright © 2011 Fulvia Finelli/Photos.com

      This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer's imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author except in the case of brief quotation embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Among the Living

      They need you, said the volunteer, and Donald figured that was a good thing, to be needed. It got him away from the ennui of the latest Jumbo Crossword Book; it got him out of his phone booth-sized office at County Memorial.

      It got him in contact with real, live people, even if it was only for as long as it took him to take a picture.

      The camera sat on top of the half-height filing cabinet, loaded and ready. Donald snagged it by the

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