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    Swallowed
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    Swallowed
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    Swallowed

    By Mark Tompkins

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    It's not a good idea to sleep with your mouth open in the presence of spiders. Undead Literature presents a flash fiction short under 500 words by Mark Tompkins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Tompkins
    Release dateJun 22, 2016
    ISBN9781310046735
    Swallowed
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    Mark Tompkins

    Mark Tompkins has been a classical pianist, a bartender, and spent 23 years in the United States Air Force working with the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system. His works include Road Rage, The Fresinnius Chronicles, Pieces, What Grabs You, What Grabs You Too, Arrhythmia and many others. Much of his work has been published by Horrified Press and can be found in their anthologies. He lives in Bossier City, Louisiana.

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