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    Pinch Me: A Romantic St. Patrick’s Day Story
    Pinch Me: A Romantic St. Patrick’s Day Story
    Pinch Me: A Romantic St. Patrick’s Day Story
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    Pinch Me: A Romantic St. Patrick’s Day Story

    By Rusty Fischer

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    Grace Phelps is working her way through graduate school at the local Minute Mart when a handsome undergrad comes racing in at midnight looking for cat food. And again the next night, and the next. When she decides to do a little snooping, Grace will discover that St. Patrick’s Day really is the luckiest night of the year!

    This 4,209-word short story is 24 pages long.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRusty Fischer
    Release dateFeb 5, 2014
    Pinch Me: A Romantic St. Patrick’s Day Story
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    Rusty Fischer

    Rusty Fischer is a full-time freelance writer, multi-published ghostwriter and the author of dozens of published books across a variety of genres, from nonfiction to fiction, including his popular A Living Dead Love Story series from Medallion Press. Visit him at www.rustyfischer.com to read more!

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      Book preview

      Pinch Me - Rusty Fischer

      Pinch Me:

      A Romantic St. Patrick’s Day Story

      By Rusty Fischer, author of A Town Called Snowflake

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      Pinch Me

      Rusty Fischer

      Copyright 2014 by Rusty Fischer

      Smashwords Edition

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      This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, places and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

      Cover credit: © domnitchnastia – Fotolia.com

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      Author’s Note:

      The following is a FREE short story edited by the author himself. If you see any glaring mistakes, I apologize and hope you don’t take it out on my poor characters, who had nothing to do with their author’s bad grammar! Happy reading… and happy holidays!

      Enjoy!

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      Pinch Me:

      A Romantic St. Patrick’s Day Story

      He comes in late one night.

      It’s early March. Cool, but not cold. I watch him walking all the way up the street. It takes awhile, but I don’t mind. I’m not actively on the prowl, mind you, but it beats staring at the lottery tickets under the glass countertop as I work

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