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    After the Nuthatch Fell
    After the Nuthatch Fell
    After the Nuthatch Fell
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    After the Nuthatch Fell

    By Dennis Anthony

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    Young Parker French is terrified on his first day in kindergarten. But in later years when God peeks in on him, and then he meets Mr. Gray, a ghost in a duster and handsome Stetson hat, he’s okay with it. Strange goings on at the edge of the forest, however, reveal a more sinister presence at work. Mr. Gray won’t be able to save him. And Momma . . . well, Momma can’t know. Parker learns that sometimes innocence is no protection against the dark.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDennis Anthony
    Release dateFeb 3, 2016
    After the Nuthatch Fell
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    Dennis Anthony

    Dennis Anthony has been a newspaper reporter, sailor, militaryofficer, television news producer, public relations executive andpublishing company owner. He and his wife live in Pensacola,Florida, but try to spend as much time as possible at their cabin onLookout Mountain in Alabama. He is author of Debunker:Independence Day, recipient of a 2014 B.R.A.G. Medallion.

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      After the Nuthatch Fell - Dennis Anthony

      After the Nuthatch Fell

      Copyright 2013 Dennis Anthony

      Published by Dennis Anthony at Smashwords

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      Before he killed the nuthatch, before God peeked in on him and before Mr. Gray with his duster and beige Stetson visited his room, five-year-old Parker French had to deal with the desperate loneliness of his first day in kindergarten.

      He's a clinger, his Aunt Bess told Momma that summer. School will toughen him. It's the best thing right now. So Alinda French sent him off to kindergarten – her heart breaking at the smallness of him – hoping he might make other attachments, but also fearing that their special bond might erode in the process.

      He stood before the door to Foxfire Elementary School – new stiff

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