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    Prom Friday
    Prom Friday
    Prom Friday
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    Prom Friday

    By J. M. Davis

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    Many of you are too young to remember the sixties, but for those of us who were there, it was a time of innocence as well a mine field for false steps.

    Rabbit, a seventeen-year-old student, needs to find a date for the high school PROM, which is going to be held Friday evening, four days away.

    Short story.
    Excerpts included after end of story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. M. Davis
    Release dateFeb 12, 2015
    ISBN9781310685873
    Prom Friday
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    J. M. Davis

    Jim Davis is the author of Portrait of Conspiracy, Tough As They Come, A Woman To Die For, Murder and Mayham, The Ghost of Leonard Korn, The Durley Incident, No Tears For Jack, Prom Friday, The Storekeeper, and The Last Violin.Over a period of two decades, he traveled to twenty foreign countries and made the first cellular telephone call in the country of Russia. In 1988, he thought he'd found Elvis alive on the Island of Tortola. Awakened from a dream, he learned an Elvis Impersonator had begun singing in the bar located directly beneath his second floor room.Jim lives with his wife in the Boston Mountains. He writes mystery/suspense novels, novellas, and short stories.

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      Prom Friday - J. M. Davis

      PROM FRIDAY

      J. M. Davis

      Published by J. M. Davis at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2014 by J. M. Davis

      Cover Design by Fury Cover Designs

      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 are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. All rights reserved.

      This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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      No Tears For Jack

      The Durley Incident

      The Storekeeper

      Dedication

      In Memory of My High School English Teacher

      Mrs. Nellie Rea Sledge Gordon May 18, 1914 - September 2, 2014. I had the great pleasure of being one of Mrs. Gordon’s students. She was a wonderful lady and great teacher.

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      PROM FRIDAY

      About the author

      Excerpt: PORTRAIT OF CONSPIRACY

      PROM FRIDAY

      If you have a nick-name in high school, it means one of two things. The other students are being cruel to you, or your classmates actually like you. I got my nickname for trying to outrun the only police car in town. I didn’t, really. My rearview mirror was missing, and I had the radio turned up to earthquake level, while driving around. I had no idea a policeman had been following me all over town, until I pulled in at the Freezo for a soda.

      Being a Saturday afternoon, the home of the greasy hamburger was packed with my high school classmates. With blue lights flashing and a siren blaring, the policeman pulled his vehicle up behind mine. All of the kids inside the Freezo ran outside to watch the long-arm-of-the-law nab a fugitive.

      The policeman, Bad Badge Bugger Johnson, a man the size of Jupiter, wiggled his stomach loose from his patrol car’s steering wheel and exited his cruiser. He strolled up to the driver’s side window of my car with

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