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    Fay's Rebellion
    Fay's Rebellion
    Fay's Rebellion
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    Fay's Rebellion

    By Barry Rachin

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    Ethan Whitfield has just met his twin soul, the penultimate love of his life, but he has also taken a vow of celibacy which complicates the matter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateJul 22, 2023
    ISBN9798215035214
    Fay's Rebellion
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    Barry Rachin

    About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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      Fay's Rebellion - Barry Rachin

      Fay’s Rebellion

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      Published by:

      Barry Rachin on Smashwords

      Copyright © 2023 by Barry Rachin

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This short story represent a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Fay’s Rebellion

      Eleven o’clock the doorbell chimed. The sun having gone down three hours earlier, the street was shrouded in darkness, the only familiar sounds still lingering were a raspy chorus of crickets interspersed with the rhythmic bass tones of bullfrogs that drifted up from the wetland marsh in back of the house. A sinewy woman with straight brown hair and angular body stood on the landing. An olive complexion was offset by hazel eyes; but for the humorless expression, she might have been modestly pretty. I wasn’t quite sure, she said haltingly, if this was your apartment.

      Ethan Whitfield gawked at the woman. Do I know you?

      Your sister’s 30th birthday party earlier this evening… I was situated at the rear table next to your Aunt Sophie and her third husband. When the party ended prematurely, I hunted down your brother and he gave me your address.

      Ethan groaned. Then you witness everything. Without waiting for an invitation the young woman stepped over the threshold and moved to the

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