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A Face in the Crowd
Brendan Mears has taught high school history in Georgia for fifteen years and has found his calling in encouraging underprivileged kids to stay in school and getting them to enjoy learning. Their dream is to go to New York to see the Broadway production of "Hamilton," and they work hard and long to raise the money.
The only problem is, Mears can't go with them. If he does, he's in violation of an agreement he made years before to save his life. Still, he doesn't want to let these struggling kids down.
He pleads his case for an exception and gets permission to go, and though he's tempted to break the terms of the agreement, he thinks first of the kids he's there to guide.
When one of the students comes down with appendicitis, a trip to the ER puts Mears in a situation he knows will cost him his job and a future in the place he's come to call home. Moreover, it could cost him his life.
To find out why, look for the author's debut novel, A WAR OF DECEPTION, coming in Spring 2017. (Sneak preview inside.)
The only problem is, Mears can't go with them. If he does, he's in violation of an agreement he made years before to save his life. Still, he doesn't want to let these struggling kids down.
He pleads his case for an exception and gets permission to go, and though he's tempted to break the terms of the agreement, he thinks first of the kids he's there to guide.
When one of the students comes down with appendicitis, a trip to the ER puts Mears in a situation he knows will cost him his job and a future in the place he's come to call home. Moreover, it could cost him his life.
To find out why, look for the author's debut novel, A WAR OF DECEPTION, coming in Spring 2017. (Sneak preview inside.)
71 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 15, 2017
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About the author
Phyllis Anne Duncan (P. A. Duncan)
24 books32 followersP. A. Duncan is a retired bureaucrat but one with an overactive imagination--at least that's what everyone has told her since she first started making up stories in elementary school, prompted by her weekly list of spelling words.
A commercial pilot and former FAA safety official, she lives and writes in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. A graduate of Madison College (now James Madison University), she has degrees in history and political science. Politics and history manage to work their way into her writing.
Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. When not reading, writing, editing, singing in a UU choir, watching the Yankees, or cheering on Dale Earnhardt, Jr., she delights in spoiling her grandchildren.
She is president emeritus of the Virginia Writers Club, one of the oldest writer organizations in the country.
A commercial pilot and former FAA safety official, she lives and writes in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. A graduate of Madison College (now James Madison University), she has degrees in history and political science. Politics and history manage to work their way into her writing.
Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. When not reading, writing, editing, singing in a UU choir, watching the Yankees, or cheering on Dale Earnhardt, Jr., she delights in spoiling her grandchildren.
She is president emeritus of the Virginia Writers Club, one of the oldest writer organizations in the country.
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December 19, 2023
An interesting short story about a man who has made a deal to save his life. One of the terms of this deal is to keep away from NYC which unfortunately a trip arises at the school he teaches at, which pretty much forces him to go there. He does gain special permission to do so, however when one kid gets sick & he is forced to take him to hospital, he runs into a person he never should have seen.
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