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    Dark Horse Part 1
    Dark Horse Part 1
    Dark Horse Part 1
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    Dark Horse Part 1

    By Stephen Shypitka

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    One coin. Two posers. The stuff that villains are made of.
    A timid clerk’s reclusive world is turned upside down when two French Canadien hustlers spark conflict in an ancient coin and long dormant desires to possess the young waif.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Shypitka
    Release dateApr 7, 2021
    ISBN9781005095543
    Dark Horse Part 1
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    Stephen Shypitka

    Stephen's eBooks have sold across 4 continents in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Jamaica, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Switzerland the UK and the US. His online success has allowed his work to be noticed, read and savoured with his fiction for our times that turns heads, crosses genres and connects us all. Stephen was born in British Columbia, Canada an alumnus of USC film school in Los Angeles, he has taught the craft and loves to travel.

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      Dark Horse Part 1 - Stephen Shypitka

      Dark Horse

      By Stephen Shypitka

      Smashwords Serliazed Edition

      ©2021 Stephen Shypitka

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      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favourite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Dedication

      To Gerry thanks for being my neighbour when I

      first arrived in Vancouver a little scattered.

      CONTENTS PART I

      Chapitre 1

      Chapitre 2

      Chapitre 3

      About the Author

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      Dark Horse

      Chapitre 1

      Looking down on a countertop, the wood had worn through white of what remained of the ‘50s speckled blue laminate. Sitting atop it, an open paper tablet with a working pencil sketch, next to it wrapped in wax paper almost a perfect square-shaped sandwich. Beside it all, sat Dean, bookish, despite his years unable to shake a profound stutter.

      In Gastown, amongst

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