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    Within a Crowded Blade: Disorderly Elements Short Stories
    Within a Crowded Blade: Disorderly Elements Short Stories
    Within a Crowded Blade: Disorderly Elements Short Stories
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    Within a Crowded Blade: Disorderly Elements Short Stories

    By Olivette Devaux

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    Jared helps his cousin Cooper save Pittsburgh from a rogue node, when something goes terribly wrong - and then he dies. Waking up inside a foggy, Japanese world does not fill him with confidence in afterlife.

    He hears, and he feels the energy currents that had made his elementalist gift so unique, but Jared cannot see any better than he can speak Japanese. What got him landed in this ethereal world?

    This between-the-books short story answers the question of "What happened to Jared?" in "Like a Torrent," book 2 of the Disorderly Elements.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMugen Press
    Release dateAug 11, 2017
    ISBN9781386728283
    Within a Crowded Blade: Disorderly Elements Short Stories
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    Olivette Devaux

    A winner of numerous "Writers of the Future" Honorable Mentions and various genre awards, Olivette Devaux writes stories of all lengths and on a variety of topics. If you like urban fantasy, science fiction, crime fiction, and romance, you will find many a good read in her repertoire! Please pay careful attention to keywords, cover branding, and story summaries. All these will hint as to the genre, mood, and your emotional take-away.  Olivette gave up her vagabond ways to settle in Pittsburgh, where she shares a home with her family and her numerous imaginary friends.

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      Book preview

      Within a Crowded Blade - Olivette Devaux

      WITHIN A CROWDED

      BLADE

      DISORDERLY ELEMENTS SHORT STORY

      Olivette Devaux

      Also by Olivette Devaux

      Cancelled Czech Files

      I am Here for You

      Disorderly Elements Collections

      Water - Disorderly Elements Collection 1

      Disorderly Elements Short Stories

      Zero Power Signature

      Within a Crowded Blade

      Three Solstice Gifts

      The Forbidden Kiss of Life

      Airborne

      Flickers and Drips

      Disordery Elements

      Like a Torrent

      Like a Surge

      Like a Jetstream

      Like a Phoenix

      Like a Freeze

      Like a Dervish

      Like a Rock

      Fall Trilogy Short Story

      Caveman

      Lack of Professional Detachment

      Breakfall Complete Fall Trilogy Collection

      Stranded

      By the sword

      Fiction Without Boundaries

      Fiction Without Boundaries - WInter Solstice 2019

      Fiction Without Boundaries - Valentine's Day 2020

      Fiction Without Boundaries - Spring Equinox 2020

      FIction Without Boundaries - May 2020

      Static Storm

      Gentlemen of Heron Creek

      Forest Head

      Happy Hour Inn

      Buzz

      Bourbon

      Syrrah

      Stirred

      Chai

      International Affairs

      The Fighting Dutchman

      Escaping Cupid

      Lucky Starflowers

      Yellow Peonies

      MMMagic

      Music of Loose Spring

      Steel City Heat

      Lucky Starflowers

      Zipper Fall

      Stories from my Left Pocket

      The River Pearl

      SwimBikeRun

      Swim Bike Run Collection

      The Fall Trilogy

      Breakfall

      Swordfall

      Landfall

      Waterkin

      Waterkin: The Swim-Through Survey

      WILD HORSES

      Untamed

      Wild Horses

      Broken Gait

      Horseplay

      Sire

      Stray

      Recycled Stardust - Wild Horses Collection One

      Wild Horses Short Stories

      Comfort Zone

      Standalone

      Adrenaline Rush

      Flux

      Crushing Hard - A Valentine Day Collection

      Friends of Fur and Feather - Short Story Collection

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      The Mushroom Expert

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

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      Mugen Press | Pittsburgh, PA

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      Mugen Press

      Pittsburgh, PA

      When Jared came to, pain was the first thing he both felt and remembered. Pain, and searing heat which he couldn't see, and in which he could barely breathe. He knew with a certainty that his eyebrows were all singed off, and it was quite possible that most of his hair was gone,

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