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    The Tutor: A Ghost Story
    The Tutor: A Ghost Story
    The Tutor: A Ghost Story
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    The Tutor: A Ghost Story

    By Rod Galindo

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    Young Max hates Fourth Grade math. His teenage friend Claire is an ace with numbers, and is always eager to help him with his homework. Max adores her, and loves when she visits him in the old house on Hollow Street.

    Claire can also weave a ghost story like no one else. But her favorite tale always sends chills down his spine, and hits a little too close to home...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWordwraith Books LLC
    Release dateJul 14, 2016
    ISBN9781536575866
    The Tutor: A Ghost Story

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      The Tutor - Rod Galindo

      Dedication

      This story is dedicated to Jeni Frontera.  Your spreadsheet of literary magazines that we used to submit our short stories eventually led me to the New York City Midnight Short Story Challenge.  Were it not for that contest, brave little Max and the beautiful Claire would never exist.

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      Thank you for checking out my short story, I hope you enjoy it!

      Allow me to send you the first three chapters from my upcoming novel, SENTCORPS Log One: Distress Call.

      Simply hop over to RodWerks.net/SecretSC and tell me where to send it! ☺

      For more information on upcoming projects and books, please visit RodGalindo.com

      The Tutor: A Ghost Story

      Max, look at number seventeen again.

      Why?  What's wrong with it?

      Claire was silent.

      He looked again.  Oh.  I always do that!  He ground the eraser into the paper.

      Easy, you'll leave a pink smudge!

      Max corrected his mistake and slammed his pencil onto the desk.  "Why can't

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