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    Re-Formed
    Re-Formed
    Re-Formed
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    Re-Formed

    By Neal McClinton

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    Two recently released inmates who are counterparts of one another, fall into new relationships straight after getting out of prison.  Their new partners don't realise they are dating ex-cons and the unions end with terrible consequences.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNeal McClinton
    Release dateOct 4, 2020
    ISBN9781393019657
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    Neal McClinton

    I love stories. Back before TV on demand I'd read during ad-breaks and anytime I went anywhere, I travelled with a stack of books. I read and write across a range of genres and formats. My portfolio includes a fantasy novel, film and TV scripts and plenty of short stories. Being able to write for a living would be a dream come true, so I'll keep banging my head against the proverbial brick wall...!

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      Re-Formed - Neal McClinton

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      RE-FORMED

      First edition. October 4, 2020.

      Copyright © 2020 Neal McClinton.

      ISBN: 978-1393019657

      Written by Neal McClinton.

      Table of Contents

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      Re-Formed. | By Neal McClinton

      Re-Formed.

      By Neal McClinton

      Time is elastic. 

      Not literally.  When you’re young a single day seems endless.  Once you slip past thirty, 24 hours is a blur that gets broken up into a thousand pieces – shopping, work, relationships, Instagram, kids, holidays, drugs, booze, sports, gambling, religion, violence, sex and all the other shit we fill our lives with.

      Timeline 1:

      Prison helps slow things down, no matter how old you are. 

      The gate slides shut at my back and I flinch.  I look along the long, straight road and don’t see any cars.  No surprise really, nobody’s coming for me.  Mom – non-existent, Dad taken by an aneurism when I was in my teens, sister vanished – last seen heading to San Francisco.

      I weigh my options and begin walking.  Neither my work life, nor my life of crime have been particularly successful – so what

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