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    Falling
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    Falling

    By Bernard Fancher

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    She would have experienced the same intense, awful pleasure of feeling her insides falling away, and felt as well the desire to scream—a reaction she may either have repressed or indulged; but whether she leapt a little that day or simply held tight to her place and quietly resisted, no-one would ever know.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBernard Fancher
    Release dateApr 9, 2011
    ISBN9781458092311
    Falling
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    Bernard Fancher

    I live on a small and mostly defunct farm in western New York, where the events of a typical day include writing and walking my dogs--items not necessarily listed in order of priority. (At least not from the dogs' point of view.)

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