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    Eleven
    Eleven
    Eleven
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    Eleven

    By Lauren Ciccarelli

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    Don’t think you have time to read anymore? Think again.

    Eleven is a flash fiction collection of twenty short stories all written in only eleven sentences or less.

    You can read these stories on a break, while you’re waiting for that incorrigible friend who’s always late, or when you don’t feel like starting an epic novel topping a thousand pages.

    These micro stories will welcome you into their worlds and share secrets with you, but soon enough they’ll kick you out and throw you into the next.

    Filled with a variety of stories and circumstances, Eleven is sure to capture your imagination.

    Are you ready for them?

    Longest story: 296 words
    Shortest story: 121 words

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Lauren Ciccarelli.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLauren Ciccarelli
    Release dateJul 9, 2011
    ISBN9781465824844
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      Eleven - Lauren Ciccarelli

      Eleven

      By Lauren Ciccarelli

      Copyright 2011 Lauren Ciccarelli

      Smashwords Edition

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      For my family and friends:

      It is hard to love a girl who spends so much time with this many people in her head.

      Thank you.

      Table Of Contents

      I, Reece

      L’artiste Ex

      Our Jealous Sun

      Missing Spy Presumed Dead

      Razed University Dorm

      Soap People

      Skinnapping

      Because You’re Still Here

      Birth of The Atoner

      Titan

      Pernicious

      Xchange

      Saint Helen

      One Week Before Drowning

      Heather’s Garden

      Viking Revival

      Lily’s Best Friend

      Son of the Sun

      South

      Cloud Commune

      I, Reece

      Thirteen days of constant rain and warring weather since you, twin sister, ran away.

      When the fat clouds interfere with our telepathic conversation, like the time we split up

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