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    Tax Dodge Sanctuary
    Tax Dodge Sanctuary
    Tax Dodge Sanctuary
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    Tax Dodge Sanctuary

    By Stefon Mears

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    Blake loves fantasy novels. So much he even started a religion -- the First Church of Tolkien.

     

    He started the church as a lark. A tax dodge. But tonight an elf pounds on his door, begging for sanctuary.

     

    Elves, politics, danger … Blake faces a hell of a night.

     

    "Tax Dodge Sanctuary," a fun short story for all fans of fantasy. Lord of the Rings fans, don't miss this one! From Stefon Mears, author of the Cavan Oltblood series and the Spells for Hire series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThousand Faces Publishing
    Release dateMay 22, 2020
    ISBN9781393763383
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      The sudden pounding almost made Blake jump out of his skin.

      One moment he’d been deep inside the climax of a paperback novel. The seventh of a seven book series, and the great battle he’d been looking forward to for three books. The uncrowned queen’s ragtag forces were finally facing off with the undead army of the evil necromancer…

      And … what happened exactly?

      Blake rolled his stiff shoulders and looked around by the yellow light of the bendy reading lamp over his shoulder. He was ensconced in the saggy spot of his cushy green couch, comfy except that he hunched while he was reading. Bad for his shoulders.

      He had a sweating glass of iced tea with lemon on the faded black steamer trunk he’d used for a coffee table since he graduated from college three years ago.

      Blake looked around to see if anything had fallen. Everything looked in place along his overflowing book shelves (including the stacks of unfiled books on the floor beside them that he

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