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Jasmine
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A retired college instructor and former teacher in India meet online and decide to meet in person during COVID. They form a pact to be together forever.
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James Musgrave
James Musgrave has been in a Bram Stoker Finalist anthology, and he’s won the First Place Blue Ribbon for Best Historical Mystery, Forevermore, at the Chanticleer International Book Awards. His most recent publication, “Bug Motel,” is the first story in the Toilet Zone 3 Horror Anthology, Hellbound Books. "Jasmine," is in the anthology Draw Down the Moon published by Propertius Press. His adult short fiction anthology Valley of the Dogs, Dark Stories, won the Silver Medal at the 2021 Reader's Favorite international contest. Two of his historical mystery series are published through and curated by the American Library Association's Biblioboard.com.
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Jasmine - James Musgrave
Jasmine
James Musgrave
Published by EMRE Publishing, LLC, 2022.
This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.
JASMINE
First edition. July 25, 2022.
Copyright © 2022 James Musgrave.
ISBN: 979-8215151839
Written by James Musgrave.
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JASMINE
By James Musgrave
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
― Franz Kafka
Imet Professor Robert Featherstone when I taught with him at the many freeway flyer colleges we instructed at, from the trunks of our cars, to make a living for over twenty-five years, as adjunct teachers in San Diego County. I
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