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    Empty & Survive To Eat
    Empty & Survive To Eat
    Empty & Survive To Eat
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    Empty & Survive To Eat

    By C. L. Norman

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    Empty

    Rheken has been alone for a long time and just wants to get his father back. The truth about his father’s disappearance has eluded him for a year and finally, he will find out just why he is the only survivor of a once thriving city.

    Survive To Eat

    Forced to fight in the rings after his enslavement by the Charkneth Empire, Aetran finds that he is willing to do quite a lot to satisfy his hunger to live. Just how much will he risk to keep his belly full and his body whole?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC. L. Norman
    Release dateJan 28, 2011
    ISBN9781458126993
    Empty & Survive To Eat
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    C. L. Norman

    I grew up in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. I cannot begin to number how many times I was asked, “Do you glow in the dark?” (The answer is only with the lights on.) A person cannot grow up in a place like that during the tail end of the Cold War and not wonder about invasions, aliens, or apocalypses (apocalypsi?). I carried it further and imagined fairies laughing among the crops of the field, unicorns frolicking on the playground, and swordsmen lurking in the dark of the dunes. This is when I started writing.I have a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and I am currently working on a Masters in Teaching English degree. For most of my professional life, I’ve been a bookseller. Recently, I’ve become a substitute teacher. Both of these jobs provide many opportunities to people watch and a rich source of ideas for stories.I write all shades of fantasy from traditional to urban to space fantasy. Wolves in the Mists is my most read story.My brother once told me that I read so many books I ought to know how to write a good one. It's been my mission to prove him right ever since.

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