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    Flatbed Ford
    Flatbed Ford
    Flatbed Ford
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    Flatbed Ford

    By Ian W. Cooper

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    It seemed like a good idea at the time. Franklyn is going to California. He will work at a gas bar and start going out to auditions. It's midday and mid-summer in Kansas when a girl in a flatbed Ford slows down to take a look at him. She might be as crazy, or maybe just as desperate, as he is. A short story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIan W. Cooper
    Release dateFeb 7, 2014
    ISBN9781927957103
    Flatbed Ford
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    Ian W. Cooper

    Ian Cooper has written fiction, non-fiction and worked for newspapers and magazines. He likes to make people laugh as well as think. His writing has a strong sense of the dramatic. Out of work and recovering from a life-threatening illness, someone suggested writing his sexual memoirs, which he initially rejected for the amount of research involved. He didn’t want to have to make it all up from scratch. A single dad and semi-retired from his most recent experience in the construction industry, Ian squeezes a little writing time in between raising a daughter and building a home-based business.

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