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    Tijuana, Massachusetts
    Tijuana, Massachusetts
    Tijuana, Massachusetts
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    Tijuana, Massachusetts

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    Why does Cape Cod, Massachusetts keep changing into Tijuana, Mexico? Don't ask Patty, the foul-mouthed everything-hater with a memory full of holes. Every time the lump on her head buzzes, Cape Cod becomes Tijuana or vice versa. One minute, Patty sees lighthouses and well-dressed children; the next, she fends off pushy street kids and donkeys done up like zebras. Has she lost her mind, or is someone--or something--driving her crazy? Little by little, the truth seeps through...but the dark secrets it forces to the surface might be far more terrible than any illusion. Don't miss this surprising story by award-winning writer Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch.

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    "Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author

    "Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of THE MAKER'S SONG series and BLACK DUST MAMBO

    "Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read..." – Fabio Fernandes, FANTASY BOOK CRITIC

    About the Author

    Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. His young adult urban fantasy novel, MY FAVORITE BAND DOES NOT EXIST, won the Forward National Literature Award and was named one of BOOKLIST's Top Ten First Novels for Youth. Simon & Schuster, DAW/Penguin Books, and DC Comics have published his work. He won the grand prize in Pocket Books' nationwide Strange New Worlds contest and was nominated for the British Fantasy Award.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateApr 19, 2013
    ISBN9781301121441
    Tijuana, Massachusetts

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      Tijuana, Massachusetts - Robert Jeschonek

      Tijuana, Massachusetts

      Tijuana, Massachusetts

      A SCIFI STORY

      ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Blastoff Books

      Contents

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      Tijuana, Massachusetts

      About the Author

      Special Preview: Six Scifi Stories Volume Four

      TIJUANA, MASSACHUSETTS

      Copyright © 2023 by Robert T. Jeschonek

      www.robertjeschonek.com

      Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

      www.benbaldwin.co.uk

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved by the author.

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      Tijuana, Massachusetts

      At first, Patty thought someone was shooting at her. Bracka-cracka-crack. She clamped her hands over her ears, fighting to drown out the clattering racket. Cracka-bracka-brack.

      Then, suddenly, it was like someone had turned down the volume and she could hear the sound for what it really was.

      Shicka-shacka-shicka.

      And when she opened her eyes, she saw what was making that sound: a bright yellow box jumping up and down in a dirty brown hand. A rainbow-colored logo swirled across the front under a cellophane wrapper.

      Chiclets. Someone was shaking a box of Chiclets in her face.

      "Five dollar, señora. The voice of a little boy called out from behind the box. Want some Cheek-lits?"

      What the fuck?

      Since when did kids run around selling Chiclets on Cape Cod, Massachusetts?

      Patty

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