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    The Auto Mechanics' Calendar
    The Auto Mechanics' Calendar
    The Auto Mechanics' Calendar
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    The Auto Mechanics' Calendar

    By Joel Arnold

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    It’s the kind of calendar you don’t see much of anymore, hanging on grimy backroom walls, a pin-up model posed over each month of the year showing a little skin.

    But there was something different about this calendar.

    Something...frightening.

    The old-timers at Morton’s Service Garage winced whenever a new page was revealed, glancing at the dates ahead with dread. What was it they saw that the new guy, Jordan, didn’t see? What were they so afraid of?

    Follow award-winning author Joel Arnold into the auto mechanics’ break room with this short story of mounting horror. You never know what you might see when you turn the page!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoel Arnold
    Release dateDec 8, 2014
    ISBN9781311459435
    The Auto Mechanics' Calendar
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    Joel Arnold

    Joel Arnold is the author of several novels. His short stories and articles have appeared in dozens of publications, including WEIRD TALES, CHIZINE, AMERICAN ROAD MAGAZINE and Cemetery Dance's anthology SHIVERS VII. In 2010 he received both a MN Artists Initiative Grant as well as the Speculative Literature Foundation's Gulliver Travel & Research Grant.Arnold teaches writing at student workshops throughout Minnesota and has given presentations about the Ox Cart trails of Minnesota and the Dakotas to several historical societies and other groups interested in history. He also serves as the literary director for the Savage Arts Council.Arnold lives near the Twin Cities in Minnesota with his wife, two kids, two cats, a dog and a ball python. Plus he makes a mean coffee cake.Sign up for his monthly newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/Gre2f

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