Used Elvises

By Cindie Geddes

Used people blow into Vegas to get caught amid the casinos like trash on a fence. Used old men who clean up graveyards at night with a bottle always in reach, used little girls who lose their clothes in dim yellow spotlights, used Elvises with more stories in their pasts than in their futures. The mysteries that bring them together are simple and mundane — and worth a fortune.
(short story)

Cindie Geddes is a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short stories, two poems, a few essays, a bunch of ghostwritten nonfiction books, more than 300 articles, and a big bunch of editing (magazines, short stories, and books). She is co-owner of Lucky Bat Books, a company designed to empower writers to tell their stories in their own ways on their own terms. Her alter ego, CC Geddes, also writes about fear, blood and the dark side of the human spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lucky Bat Books
• Release date: Mar 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465900708

Cindie Geddes

Cindie Geddes is a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short stories, two poems, a few essays, a bunch of ghostwritten nonfiction books, more than 300 articles, and a big bunch of editing (magazines, short stories, and books). She is co-owner of Lucky Bat Books, a company designed to empower writers to tell their stories in their own ways on their own terms. Her alter ego, CC Geddes, also writes about fear, blood and the dark side of the human spirit. www.CindieGeddes.com

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USED ELVISES

by Cindie Geddes

Used people blow into Vegas to get caught amid the casinos like trash on a fence. Used old men who clean up graveyards at night with a bottle always in reach, used little girls who lose their clothes in dim yellow spotlights, used Elvises with more stories in their pasts than in their futures. The mysteries that bring them together are simple and mundane — and worth a fortune.

Published by Lucky Bat Books

A Lucky Bat Book

Used Elvises (a short story)

Copyright 2012 by Cindie Geddes

All rights reserved

Cover design by Janiel Escueta.

Elvis image by sabab66 via Fotolia. Background byfreevectors.

Used with Permission

Published by Lucky Bat Books

Smashwords Edition License Notes

This e-book is licensed for the enjoyment of the person who bought it. If you’re reading it and you didn’t buy it, c’mon, it’s cheap, and Cindie worked hard on it; just go buy your own

Contents

Used Elvises

About the Author

Samples of other Stories

Used Elvises

Dad always loved Elvis. Always, the blonde said to Mr. Riley as she dabbed at her eyes with an unscented tissue. Mr. Riley believed everything at the cemetery should be unscented. "My mom had a pocket watch made for