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    Just for Button: Cleaning Out the Attic
    Just for Button: Cleaning Out the Attic
    Just for Button: Cleaning Out the Attic
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    Just for Button: Cleaning Out the Attic

    By Christine Forshner

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    Just for Button: Cleaning out the Attic

    This collection contains prose written by Chris Forshner before 2010 with introduction by Kai Kiriyama. The book is split in to two sections, completed works come first and include:

    Interview with Goldy (Life as a Goldfish)

    Open Letter to the Suicidal (Poem)

    One Gnome to Change the World (Dramatic Monologue)

    The Last Case (A detective's visit to an asylum)

    The Listeners (Inspired by the Walter de la Mare poem)

    Chapter 31 The Grapes of Wrath (Intercalary Chapter)

    The Truth of it All (a fantasy tale of dragon slaying)

    Tortured Dreams (a fantasy tale starring an Elven ranger)

    The second half is "scraps", which includes unfinished works (including the A Bloody Mess urban fantasy series) and other bits that aren't connected to anything in particular. This section includes:

    A Bloody Mess
    The Stake is Mightier Than the Laptop
    Dangerous Descent
    The Masque of Theophania
    A Spritely Situation

    Children of the Night (the formation of a vampire clan)

    Foot Prints in the Snow (Flash Fiction)

    Tiv's Tale (Flash Fiction)

    Twisted Strands of Fate (fantasy)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLemorn Literary Works
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301053728
    Just for Button: Cleaning Out the Attic
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    Christine Forshner

    Writer. Editor. Gamer. Pharmacy Technician.If archaeologists going through boxes in her parents' basement can be believed, Chris has been writing legible stories since being shown how to make letters. She began editing in school while "helping" with others' homework and the mental red pen never quits. (Not even ads are free of its glare.) She is an avid gamer (both tabletop and video), reader and writer outside of a day job as a pharmacy technician specialising in reports.

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