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    Inter-Magisteria Cooperation
    Inter-Magisteria Cooperation
    Inter-Magisteria Cooperation
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    Inter-Magisteria Cooperation

    By Patrice Stanton

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    Now, Mel “to hell with cooperation” Dobson’s devised his own plan.

    But why would the lowliest of Afterworld operatives risk going off script, risk taking his assignment into his own two suddenly very pudgy hands, especially - for starters - the potential wrath that could rain down from the powerful angel that he’s expecting to land, any moment, in D.C.?

    Simple. Because even demons like Mel know things about this particular IMC target, a former U.S. President...one Abraham Lincoln. He knows things that most egotistical earthbound humans, even in the Information Age, don’t. Unless, that is, those humans are part-time Sherlocks. And go off their usual spoonfed earthly “scripts.”

    Mel knows, for example, from the early 1850’s onward ol’ Abe held his mentor Henry Clay’s view on emancipation: that both the Union and the black slaves throughout it would be best served by “re-colonization,” and not simply to their homeland – Africa – but specifically to Liberia, the country created decades earlier by freed American blacks. Now, he’ll make use of that knowledge and more.

    No surprise that a demon with a discipline problem would go out on a limb to accomplish his and his heavenly partner’s assignment...and with a most unexpected political twist.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrice Stanton
    Release dateJul 15, 2013
    ISBN9781301597703
    Inter-Magisteria Cooperation
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    Patrice Stanton

    Once in a blue moon I contribute things at this terrific site: (Since Spring 2013) http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/

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      Inter-Magisteria Cooperation - Patrice Stanton

      Inter-Magisteria Cooperation

      By Patrice Stanton

      copyright 2013 Patrice Stanton

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      Cover & glyphs copyright 2013 Patrice Stanton

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      This book is a work of fiction and any similarities within it to other persons (living, dead, or fictional), businesses (public, private, non-profit, or fictional), places (actual or fictional), or events (current, historical, or fictional) are purely coincidental or used fictionally since the work is a product of the author’s imagination.

      Table of Contents

      Section 1 - You only go around once

      Section 2 – Better late than never NOT!

      Section 3 – Don’t judge a book

      Section 4 – No, there’s no need to consult a professional

      Section 5 – Be still my wildly beating heart…or yours

      Section 6 – Watch the time (piece)

      Section 7 – Nowhere Man

      Section 8 – The long way home

      Section 9 – Second chances

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      1 – You only go around once

      As usual, demon operative Mel Dobson was annoyed. He looked at the 21st century cellphone compared to his hulk-sized hand and shook his head. To add to an already dreaded tag-team job, he’d been assigned rich, chocolate-colored skin. And a lot of it. Yeah, yeah, I know how important this is, but I’d already worked it out with--(click!) the Boss, he was going to say.

      He’d finally gotten through, reached one of Satan’s (countless it seemed) power-tripping secretaries. They had temporary authority to boss-around Mel’s kind, on too many occasions. Like now.

      She was back.

      Yeah, yeah, ‘IMC, Inter-Magisteria cooperation… Mel grumbled, "quote, ‘to get a feel for how the other half rules,’ unquote. Yeah, but this skin is just not gonna work where I’m, uh, where we’re going. Don’t you--" There was an explosion, then another. Though novel coming over a phone line, direct from the Underworld, Mel could take it. The fingernails now scraping down something hollow and metallic? He couldn’t, so pulled the thing away from his ear.

      Damn secretaries, he muttered. Always filing their nails.

      Sure, sunrise or sunset made for bad connections to back home, but didn’t typically cause explosive devices to detonate. And he likewise knew getting

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