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    The Dying Girl
    The Dying Girl
    The Dying Girl
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    The Dying Girl

    By Erik Lynd

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    A dying girl with a love of the ocean. An orderly with nothing to lose and everything to gain.

     

    The moment Joseph sees the girl he knows she doesn't belong in the hospital. But what can a simple orderly do? 

     

    When he discovers a chance to heal, can he find the courage to cure the girl's true sickness?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBroken Gods Press
    Release dateJan 27, 2021
    ISBN9781393543022
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      The Dying Girl - Erik Lynd

      The Dying Girl

      The Dying Girl

      Erik Lynd

      Broken Gods Press

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Also by Erik Lynd

      Newsletter

      About the Author

      1

      At first the girl wasn’t dying. She was just sleeping a lot.

      Joseph knew this because he watched her. A lot. Sometimes through the glass window into the common room, where she would alternate between napping in her chair and running her fingers through the dust motes gliding through beams of sunlight. That same sunlight that made her blond hair turn to gold and her pale white skin shimmer.

      Sometimes he stared at her when she walked through the cafeteria carrying a tray of food that Joseph knew would not be eaten. Just nibbled at and pushed around, thinned and formed into lumps that resembled mountains or crashing waves.

      Sometimes he stared at her when she was in line for her meds. He knew her pills. Two of the white big ones and a pink one. The pink one three times a day. She didn’t fight taking the meds.

      Sometimes he opened the slide

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