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    Going in Circles Vol. 1: 10 Very Short Stories
    Going in Circles Vol. 1: 10 Very Short Stories
    Going in Circles Vol. 1: 10 Very Short Stories
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    Going in Circles Vol. 1: 10 Very Short Stories

    By E.D. Martin

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    Ten short stories about six people who are connected in ways they don't even realize, followed by a sneak peek at the author's upcoming novel, Waylaid on the Road to Nowhere, about five friends who work together to bring down a local drug lord.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherE.D. Martin
    Release dateJul 14, 2019
    ISBN9780463276259
    Going in Circles Vol. 1: 10 Very Short Stories
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    E.D. Martin

    E.D. Martin is a writer with a knack for finding new jobs in new places. Born and raised in Illinois, her past incarnations have included bookstore barista in Indiana, college student in southern France, statistician in North Carolina, economic development analyst in North Dakota, and high school teacher in Iowa. She draws on her experiences to tell the stories of those around her, with a generous heaping of “what if” thrown in.She currently lives in Illinois where she job hops while working on her novels.

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      Going in Circles Vol. 1 - E.D. Martin

      GOING IN CIRCLES:

      vol 1

      A Short Story Collection

      by

      E.D. Martin

      Copyright

      Going in Circle: Vol 1

      Copyright © 2019 E.D. Martin

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations used in reviews.

      The stories in this collection originally appeared on Medium.

      Other Books by E.D. Martin

      The Heartsbane Saga:

      Book .5: The Maiden in the Tower: A Short Story

      Book 1: The Captive and the Cursed

      Book 1.5: The Brave Little Thrall: A Short Story

      Book 2: Sleeping Shaman

      Novels:

      Yours to Keep or Throw Aside

      (previously released as The Lone Wolf)

      Short Stories:

      Not My Thing

      A Place to Die

      Us, Together: A Short Story Collection

      The Futility of Loving a Soldier: A Short Story Collection

      www.EDMartinWriter.com

      Sign up for E.D.’s mailing list to receive updates on

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      Other books by E.D. Martin

      Intro

      A Starry Night

      Nice Guys

      Man of Steel

      Rule Number One

      The Right Club

      Warriors

      Off Limits

      A Certain Weakness

      An Old Family Recipe

      Counting Stars

      Sneak Peak: Waylaid on the Road to Nowhere, chapter 1

      About the Author

      Intro

      What started as microfiction writing exercises has grown into a number of related stories that have decided to be a bridge between the sequel to my first novel, Yours to Keep or Throw Aside, and the novel I’m working on right now, Waylaid on the Road to Nowhere.

      Each piece is a brief snippet of a couple characters’ lives. They’re not in chronological order, and none of the pieces are essential to understanding either novel, or even really to understanding the other short stories — although the microfiction stories, as a whole, tell the story of a group of intertwined people:

      Reggie, who will feature prominently in the sequel

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