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    Great Expectorations and Other Tales
    Great Expectorations and Other Tales
    Great Expectorations and Other Tales
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    Great Expectorations and Other Tales

    By Christie Meierz

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    Three short stories by the award-winning author of The Marann.

    In the title story, Cassie Johnson is a debt worker just starting a new life on a new planet. When she finds a pest in the basement of a building she’s inspecting, things change.

    In Stake Seasoning, Tip and Anton use a secret ingredient at their swanky Hollywood steak house.

    And Jessica finds herself at the end of the world in Rider of the Forgotten Apocalypse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristie Meierz
    Release dateApr 14, 2013
    ISBN9781301928965
    Great Expectorations and Other Tales
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    Christie Meierz

    Christie lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, her son, her piano, and a very sharp oboe. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, quilting, knitting, and trying to keep her menfolk from telling odious puns.

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