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    Winding Unwinding
    Winding Unwinding
    Winding Unwinding
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    Winding Unwinding

    By Dale Hartley Emery

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    Five Short Fantasies from Right next Door

    Five worlds very like our own. Five kinds of magic winding tighter and tighter. Five extraordinary people struggling to keep their lives from unwinding.

    A magical tailor ruins a wedding dress days before the wedding. A woman hitches a ride from peculiar strangers on a lonely road. A student demands a refund from a master negotiator, and wins more than he ever bargained for. Two young brothers fight for their lives in a funhouse. A grieving widower’s outhouse overflows with memories… and something worse.

    Peek through the keyhole into these five fantastic stories from Dale Hartley Emery.

    Includes Tailor’s Tears, Carrion Road, Refund, Funhouse, and Yantriel’s Privy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDriscoll Brook Press
    Release dateAug 11, 2014
    ISBN9781632610119
    Winding Unwinding
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    Dale Hartley Emery

    Dale Hartley Emery writes fiction in a variety of genres, including fantasy, crime fiction, and mainstream fiction. His stories include Inventory, Marmalade, and The Donation. Dale has worked as a failed shoemaker, reluctant dairy farmer, and ruthless ice cream man. For several years he monitored the nuclear test ban treaty, making sure those pesky commies didn't blow up the planet. (They didn't.) When he isn't writing, Dale advises software teams and leaders about how to play nice together. Colleagues in Dale's industry once created a special award for him for being reasonable. Dale lives in California with his wife.

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