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    Oliver & Olivia
    Oliver & Olivia
    Oliver & Olivia
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    Oliver & Olivia

    By Karen Stollznow

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    When his mother passes away, Oliver makes the trek home to sell the old manor he grew up in and faces the ghosts he left behind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKaren Stollznow
    Release dateJun 20, 2022
    ISBN9781005125301
    Oliver & Olivia
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    Karen Stollznow

    Bestselling author Karen Stollznow's non-fiction works include Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility; On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present; Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic; God Bless America; Haunting America, and Would You Believe It? Her fiction includes the anthology Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories; the novel Hits & Mrs.; and the short stories Unforeseen Circumstances; Don't Leave Me; Welcome Home; The Dark Road; I Am Me; Room for One More: Lord Dufferin's Tale; The Screaming Skull; The Way We Weren't; Leap of Faith (The Guardian Angel); and Oliver & Olivia.A host of the popular science podcast Monster Talk, she has spent many years investigating urban legends and folklore. A Doctor of Linguistics, she has taught at several universities in the United States and Australia. She was formerly a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a researcher at Griffith University. Karen was born in Sydney, Australia, and she currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

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      Book preview

      Oliver & Olivia - Karen Stollznow

      Oliver & Olivia

      (A Short Story)

      By Karen Stollznow

      Copyright © Karen Stollznow 2022

      All Rights Reserved

      www.karenstollznow.com

      Front cover design: Matthew Baxter

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      Also by Karen Stollznow

      Missed Conceptions

      On The Offensive

      Unforeseen Circumstances

      Don’t Leave Me

      I Am Me

      The Dark Road

      Welcome Home

      Room For One More

      Legend of the Screaming Skull

      The Way We Weren’t

      Leap of Faith

      Would You Believe It?

      Hits & Mrs.

      God Bless America

      Haunting America

      Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic

      Oliver pried open the drapes and stared out across the grounds of the estate.

      He gave a heavy sigh. It pained him to sell his family home; eight generations of Lamberts had lived

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