Dove Sweet Mercantile Co.: Truth Is Self-Reverent

By Brian S. Parrish

When an Enchantress tells you to use the Wizard, use the Wizard, even if he's not actually there. Time travel may be complicated, but then again so are relationships: across time, space, and one street over from the love of your life that you're scheduled to meet tomorrow. Dove Sweet Mercantile serves a mean pecan praline and always opens just in the nick of time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brian S. Parrish
• Release date: Oct 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005954123

Brian S. Parrish

Author Brian Parrish is an awed believer in the power of story and a regular patron of the dreaming. However, he's best known as a virtual stunt pilot, human cannonball coach, Indianapolis slot car racer and tender tiger tamer—in a parallel universe, that is, where his Elkhart Blue 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS has been impounded for extraordinary parking fee accumulation. In this one, he scribbles the odd story and subscribes to the International Psychic Cat Network. He lives in the rolling red hills of Virginia with an ambling caravan of family, friends and familiars.

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Dove Sweet Mercantile Co.

Truth is Self-Reverent

Brian S. Parrish

Copyright 2020 by Brian Scott Parrish

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Contents

i. The Enchantress

Orig. Co. Mission Statement

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Six Foot Separation

Lady Liberty Blinked

Box Elder Rites

Heard that Joke Before Grandpa

The Perils of Wordplay in One Act

Falling on Angel

Grandma’s Secret Weapon

Rolling for Faith-based Initiative

Fuzzy Astrology

The Weight of Two Spoons

Geeks Bearing GIFs

AxisWorld

Access:\World

The Ghost of Sweetie Dee’s

Afterword

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Books By This Author

The Enchantress

Her words fell unheeded

like so many overripe pears

Falling softly to the yielding ground.

Orig. Co. Mission Statement

D.S. Mercantile Co., LTD, Staff Handbook pg. 119

We hold these truths to be self-reverent, that all beings are created equal, that they are endowed by their creater with certain unalienable light, cast among these Strife, Surety—and the Result of wholeness—though it may take some folks a spell.

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