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    Beetles About!
    Beetles About!
    Beetles About!
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    Beetles About!

    By Gerrard Wilson

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    A MAD short story about a family of beetles. Or is is a short story about a MAD family of beetles? Read it and decide for yourself. Furthermore, it's absolutely and utterly free!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateSep 21, 2015
    ISBN9781326426729
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      Beetles About! - Gerrard Wilson

      Beetles About!

      Beetles About!

      Gerrard Wilson

      Text copyright © 2015 Gerrard T Wilson

      Gerrard Wilson asserts the moral rights to

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      Beetles About!

      Beetles About!

      Jeremiah loved his bed; he loved it so much he spent every free moment he had, within it. He was not a lazy man, mind you. It was just that, because he found it so comfortable, cosy and snug, he could think of no better place than bed in which to spend his down time. Lying there, listening to his stereo, to the beautiful voice Sarah Brightman – his favourite performer – singing, he was in another world.

      If heaven is only half as good as this, he constantly said, I will be one happy fellow when I get there.

      Jeremiah had a wife. Her name was Bethany. Although she also loved their bed (being heavily pregnant, she needed to rest) with

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