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    Short and Stupid: Ten Somewhat Dark Short Stories for a Rainy Day
    Short and Stupid: Ten Somewhat Dark Short Stories for a Rainy Day
    Short and Stupid: Ten Somewhat Dark Short Stories for a Rainy Day
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    Short and Stupid: Ten Somewhat Dark Short Stories for a Rainy Day

    By Paul Hawkins

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    Now with four bonus stories! Is man by nature evil, or stupid, or both? These short-short stories (plus seven bonus stories) let you decide. Great short reading for travel, leisure, or any occasion where you need to conscipuously ignore the person next to you. Short-short stories, humor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Hawkins
    Release dateJun 5, 2012
    ISBN9781476122359
    Short and Stupid: Ten Somewhat Dark Short Stories for a Rainy Day
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    Paul Hawkins

    American author. I am happy to be a child of the space age and I still set my sights on great things. I put humor in everything I write because that is my disposition. If I chronicle the 20th century it is only because I have not given up on the 21st.

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      Short and Stupid - Paul Hawkins

      Short and Stupid - Dark Humor Stories for a Rainy Day!

      Author’s note: These short-shorts all have a dark humor running through them that I only noticed when I saw them all together. Some have a bit of heart underneath it all, and anyway life doesn’t really suck as bad as they suggest. Usually. In any case they happened to someone else, not you.

      --Paul Hawkins, July 2015. Please like my author’s page if you like these stories!

      https://www.facebook.com/paulhawkinsauthoradventurerexplorer

      Smashwords Edition, copyright 2015, Paul Hawkins

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Chapter 1: Aladdin’s Genie

      He came to my yard sale and offered to pay for an old-timey toaster with $5 worth of nickels. He carried then around in a sock. I was asking $7 for it, but once I saw he was going to pay all in nickels, I agreed on $5.

      He said he was Aladdin’s genie and what he was really looking for was his lamp. He had been freed from it many many years ago but life on the outside wasn't so great.

      I felt sorry for the guy - he looked rough - not sick or anything, just kind of beaten down. He said sure, the lamp had confined him to a life of servitude when he was living inside it, but

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