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    Spousal Abuse
    Spousal Abuse
    Spousal Abuse
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    Spousal Abuse

    By Nelson Lynch

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    His second wife has trouble fixing his special Bombay martini. A classic spousal abuse tale. The splash of vermouth is never correct. The garnish is wrong and the gin is from Baltimore.
    A woman writes of her visit to the Head Hunters of Borneo
    A man wants a cell phone in his casket. He fears the undertaker may cremate him too soon.
    An alien civilization is in trouble. Their DNA is not stable. They buy humans to use their DNA to aid in saving their people.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNelson Lynch
    Release dateJul 8, 2011
    ISBN9781465762665
    Spousal Abuse
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    Nelson Lynch

    An Eastern Shore native. A charter member of "The First Saturday Writers." An army vet and retired school teacher. He lives on his farm with his wife Jeanne, Clyde, the Taylorville Hound, three chickens and a marauding fox.

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      Spousal Abuse - Nelson Lynch

      Spousal Abuse

      Nelson Lynch

      Published by Hogskull Press at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011

      ISBN 978-1-4657-6266-5

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      Cover: Microsoft Clip Art

      Chapter one: Spousal Abuse

      A splash, dammit. I said I wanted a splash of vermouth. He handed the martini glass back to his wife. Make me another. A splash of vermouth is all I want. Did you hear that? Just a splash. I want an extra-dry martini. Do you understand? You are wasting a lot of my good gin.

      She handled the glass carefully with both hands and retreated to the kitchen. She put

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