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    Two Blocks East
    Two Blocks East
    Two Blocks East
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    Two Blocks East

    By Kevin Tumlinson

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    LIFE TAKES YOU PLACES

    Two blocks East. Sometimes direction comes when you least expect it. 

    Two blocks East. When his beard suddenly started speaking, he felt he had no choice but to do what it said. 

    Two blocks east, and his life changed forever. 

     

    This short story is moving, inspiring, and a quick read—and it includes a special note from the author, for the updated edition. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHappy Pants Books
    Release dateJun 12, 2015
    ISBN9781513009926
    Two Blocks East
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    Kevin Tumlinson

    Kevin Tumlinson is an award-winning and bestselling novelist, living in Texas and working in random coffee shops, cafés, and hotel lobbies worldwide. His debut thriller, The Coelho Medallion, was a 2016 Shelf Notable Indie award winner. Kevin grew up in Wild Peach, Texas, where he was raised by his grandparents and given a healthy respect for story telling. He often found himself in trouble in school for writing stories instead of doing his actual assignments.  Kevin's love for history, archaeology, and science has been a tremendous source of material for his writing, feeding his fiction and giving him just the excuse he needs to read the next article, biography, or research paper.

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      Two Blocks East - Kevin Tumlinson

      Two Blocks East

      TWO BLOCKS EAST

      KEVIN TUMLINSON

      Copyright © 2014 by Kevin Tumlinson

      First edition: March 2014

      Second edition: September 2022

      Two Blocks East

      Kevin Tumlinson

      This material may be protected by copyright.

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      A Note At The End

      Here’s how to help me reach more readers

      About the Author

      Also by Kevin Tumlinson

      CHAPTER

      ONE

      It was a fine beard. Full and wooly and warm on cold days with high winds, and filled with food bits just all the time. He'd spent a long life growing it. He'd lived under it for so long, he thought of it more as a house than a facial feature. It was

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