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A ghost story from my past

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  True sightings The lost years Mark and James had been friends since school, they had been through all the usual teen angst of girlfriends and losing them and had always been best mates. They had a trust borne out of years of not telling lies, so when Mark told James he had seen a ghostly form, there was no reason for Mark not to believe him, yet a ghost, could this be true? “I tell you I DID see it Mark!”James said. “Clear as I see you sitting on the bed now.” “Okay, let us go through what you saw and try to find the reasons for it. I'm not saying I don't believe you. “But you are not saying you do either are you.” “Let’s just say I have an open mind on the subject, as we have no proof either way yet.” “If I do prove it, then will you believe it?” “Of course I will, once we get proof one way or the other.What did you see?” “I was coming back along the old footpath by Mr. Darlow’s farm, when I thought I saw a man ahead, he looked as...

Byegone times

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  Writing Courses In the days when I was writing , and believing people would buy my  ebooks  I used to get invites from  Spain   Portugal,   and the USA  to attend courses. It is a shame I never had the money to go :(

Here goes my last aspect of decency

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  Eye-candy book covers. I am at the bottom now. I held off doing sex stories for as long as I could; in the end, what the reader wants is what they'll get; if I am to sell to sell an ebook from my selection https://books.apple.com/us/author/alan-place/id504489780 .

I knew it was a scam

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  Antholgy work has never helped me Several years ago, I was offered $200 for a 2,000-word shortstory by the publisher (?) of an anthology . From the off I knew it was a scam as the going price for a story of that length is around $20 Even though I knew it was a scam I sent in an old story, not the one shown here, to test my theory . After monthly emails to the publisher, I asked when the anthology was coming out, to be told they "supposedly" never got my story.