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    Fate in Your Hands: A Modern Myth Short Story
    Fate in Your Hands: A Modern Myth Short Story
    Fate in Your Hands: A Modern Myth Short Story
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    Fate in Your Hands: A Modern Myth Short Story

    By Alexandria Blaelock

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    Fate leads those who follow
    In a dilapidated bookshop. In the red desert. 1,000 km from anywhere.
    Erik meets three mysterious women.
    Who might just change his life. If he's willing to pay their price.
    A mythical tale of fate, fortune, and changing your destiny.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlueMere Books
    Release dateJul 31, 2020
    ISBN9781925749199
    Fate in Your Hands: A Modern Myth Short Story
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    Alexandria Blaelock

    Alexandria Blaelock writes stories, some of them for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. She's also written four self-help books applying business techniques to personal matters like getting dressed, cleaning house, and feeding your friends. As a recovering Project Manager, she’s probably too fond of sticking to plan. She lives in a forest because she enjoys birdsong, the scent of gum leaves and the sun on her face. When not telecommuting to parallel universes from her Melbourne based imagination, she watches K-dramas, talks to animals, and drinks Campari. At the same time. Discover more at www.alexandriablaelock.com.

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      Fate in Your Hands - Alexandria Blaelock

      FATE IN YOUR HANDS

      Erik looked out at a seemingly endless vista of red desert, broken here and there by tussocks of spinifex.

      Way off in the distance, through the shimmering heat haze, stood the odd stumpy tree.

      It was hotter than it had any right to be; beating down from the sun high overhead and radiating up from the ground.

      The hot air tasted like dry sand and seemed to pull all the moisture from his lungs.

      Sighing, he turned to look the dilapidated weatherboard building under a sign reading Last bookshop 1000 km.

      He could tell it had been a handsome and proud home in its young glory days, but now it leant drunkenly on rotten stumps, held together by termite nests.

      That it stood at all was a miracle, but that the wide veranda supported the weight of a long slatted wooden seat and the three women looking curiously at him was a wonder.

      The youngest, in scarlet shorts and tank top, sat cross-legged on the left. She was in her early

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