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Cin City: A Luci Wijn Novel
“Yeah, it's true. I do swear a lot. And that's only one of my issues. I've also got broken things in my head."
When you're 14,000 kilometres from home it's important to have good people around you. Although for nineteen-year-old Shannon Smith finding those good people wasn't always easy. Not when her first instinct is to hide. Not when dealing with anything new is such a mammoth task. Not when she's yet another kid finding her way on the circuit - and when the only place in the world where she feels normal is on the tennis court.
Shannon's year was never supposed to be this long, she was never supposed to be so far from home. And home was calling.
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Cin City is a story of bravery and adventure; of love and friendship - of finding life beyond your limits. Cin City is about the costs and benefits of life. Cin City is about diving into the unknown and coming up for air.
When you're 14,000 kilometres from home it's important to have good people around you. Although for nineteen-year-old Shannon Smith finding those good people wasn't always easy. Not when her first instinct is to hide. Not when dealing with anything new is such a mammoth task. Not when she's yet another kid finding her way on the circuit - and when the only place in the world where she feels normal is on the tennis court.
Shannon's year was never supposed to be this long, she was never supposed to be so far from home. And home was calling.
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Cin City is a story of bravery and adventure; of love and friendship - of finding life beyond your limits. Cin City is about the costs and benefits of life. Cin City is about diving into the unknown and coming up for air.
150 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 16, 2016
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About the author
Jamie Campbell
11 books22 followersI am a pseudonym, a pen name, a nom de plume. As such, I don't exist in a real sense. I exist to the extent that He lets me exist - at least that's what He tells me.
I am tenuous at best. My very existence is threatened every day - unless I start to pay my way. The threats, the loathing - it really is no way to not quite exist.
I tell Him that I do exist, that I am published. That strangers like what I do, call me literary; lyrical too. I tell Him that I will last for ever - that my achievements are real, tangible - and don't only exist as electrons.
He says I am not real, my achievements are nugatory, transitory; piffling. I tell him that he ought to be like me: lyrical, beautiful - like a cloud. The cloud. He knows the cloud I talk of. The cloud, for what it was, looked close enough to touch; small enough to catch in a butterfly net.
He tells me to shut up. He tells me He has a day job - and it can not wait. And that the cloud is His, and not mine.
I hate Him.
I love him too.
I am tenuous at best. My very existence is threatened every day - unless I start to pay my way. The threats, the loathing - it really is no way to not quite exist.
I tell Him that I do exist, that I am published. That strangers like what I do, call me literary; lyrical too. I tell Him that I will last for ever - that my achievements are real, tangible - and don't only exist as electrons.
He says I am not real, my achievements are nugatory, transitory; piffling. I tell him that he ought to be like me: lyrical, beautiful - like a cloud. The cloud. He knows the cloud I talk of. The cloud, for what it was, looked close enough to touch; small enough to catch in a butterfly net.
He tells me to shut up. He tells me He has a day job - and it can not wait. And that the cloud is His, and not mine.
I hate Him.
I love him too.
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January 18, 2016
This was a great afternoon read. Life on the tennis circuit can be hard but it can also be fun. I loved how the author intertwined the tennis action with family, friendship, and even some romance. Fun and exciting, give this one a try and you will not be disappointed.
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