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    The Wishing Well
    The Wishing Well
    The Wishing Well
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    The Wishing Well

    By David Schibi

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    Being a middle school exchange student is hard enough for Pavel. Add to that the constant bullying and it’s almost too much. Until the night he finds the wishing well. But the wording of a wish is a tricky thing. Pavel didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt - much less die. When someone turns up who knows about the wishing well, Pavel thinks help has finally arrived. But he’s wrong.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGambler Press
    Release dateJan 10, 2011
    ISBN9781458199874
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      The Wishing Well - David Schibi

      The Wishing Well

      David Schibi

      Copyright 2011 by David Schibi

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      Pavel Rominov hurried home, the leaf strewn distance from the bus stop to his front door covered in the usual run.

      Though today, he had no reason to run.

      Or rather, no one to run from.

      He could feel movement in the left breast pocket of his hand-me-down jacket – the more he jostled about the more intense the movement got.

      Pavel worked the key into the hole with a shaking hand, nearly dropping it twice; his hands shaking from a combination of the cold and the fantastic. The frightfully fantastic.

      Droplets of sweat defied the cold like winter Olympians and raced down his reddened cheeks. His bowl-cut dark hair felt hot over his scalp, his breathing heavier than normal after his afternoon run from the bus.

      And today, Jett Clark wasn’t even after him, on his heels shouting profanities and threats of what he’d do to Pavel once he caught the Russian pansy.

      Squeezing the brass coated handle he slipped inside and shut the door immediately after, peering through gaps in the frosted glass to see if he was followed – surely someone was on to him.

      He gulped the thick, stale air inside the house, still ripe with the noxious scent of cigarettes even though no one had been there to smoke one all day.

      Pavel knew no one had been there because it was the fifteenth of the month – payday. And Cindie would be at the casino until the entire check was gone.

      All the better to Pavel, he could nuke his own T.V. dinner just as well and not have to listen to her constant nagging. Or feel her occasional slap.

      It didn’t appear anyone had followed him, all the other kids continued on their way, walking to their homes

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