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    Beyond the Pale Green Door
    Beyond the Pale Green Door
    Beyond the Pale Green Door
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    Beyond the Pale Green Door

    By Andrew Austin

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    A lonely, alienated man becomes marooned in a world filled with strange creatures, rapacious predators, and humans he is not sure he can trust. As he slowly begins to learn the skills needed to survive his new life, he faces hunger, darkness, danger, sleeplessness, and crushing isolation. His loneliness grows, and he yearns always to escape from the terrible place where he is trapped. But he might discover, if he ever gets out, that he can never, entirely leave behind the place where he has struggled for so long.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Austin
    Release dateSep 22, 2019
    ISBN9781370599769
    Beyond the Pale Green Door
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    Andrew Austin

    Andrew Austin was born in 1965 in western upstate New York. After a two-year tour in the Army he attended State University of New York at Albany and then the state College at New Paltz, finally getting a B.A. in journalism in 1990. He has worked a wide variety of low-paying service jobs to survive, and also been a reporter, stand up comic, and assistant kayaking instructor/guide. He has also taught fencing, done a little acting, and performed sword play and quasi-comedy in a Renaissance fair. His dream is to make a full-time living writing books and screenplays and appearing occasionally in movies and commercials.

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