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    Watching the Fireworks
    Watching the Fireworks
    Watching the Fireworks
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    Watching the Fireworks

    By Patrick O'Duffy

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    A mirror breaks, a marriage explodes, and all the fine things they once collected and showed off now serve to demonstrate just what went wrong.

    A short story about material possessions and marital infidelity, with a brief appearance by a cat.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrick O'Duffy
    Release dateJun 5, 2011
    ISBN9781458079275
    Watching the Fireworks
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    Patrick O'Duffy

    Patrick O'Duffy is tall, Australian and a professional editor, although not always in that order. He has written role-playing games, short fiction, a little journalism and freelance non-fiction, and is currently working on a novel, although frankly not working hard enough. He loves off-kilter fiction, Batman comics and his wife, and finds this whole writing-about-yourself-in-the-third-person thing difficult to take seriously.

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