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    Over the Edge
    Over the Edge
    Over the Edge
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    Over the Edge

    By Michael Hearing

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    A new bride and party girl who marries merely to escape her former life. A naïve, solicitous husband who sees no harm in an ordered life. A honeymoon hike on a mountain trail. And a tragic outcome.

    Murder, manslaughter, a misunderstanding gone horribly wrong, or sheer accident? Perception is everything, isn't it? In any case, justice has a strange way of working itself out.

    "Over the Edge" is a short story – a psychological thriller and a tale of horror – of approximately 3,700 words.

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    She stood in the middle of the trail with her back to cliff-edge and the abyss below, her breathing shallow and rapid as her thumbs flew across the buttons on her phone. Her highlighted and feathered blonde hair lifted just perceptibly off her shoulders in the thin mountain breeze, but her mascara remained decidedly unaffected. The text message went like this:

    u r the first to know. its done ive taken care of it. idk what comes next but im free now. dont worry about me ill c u soon. im going home now.

    The message concluded with an incongruous "LOL." But Amber was her best friend, and she, of all people, would understand.

    Their wedding, to Heather, had been more an inconvenience than anything else. Sure, she had agreed to it, had accepted Josh's proposal – after nearly two years of his trying to get her to – but mostly as a way out. For she had grown tired of her life – tired of the relentlessly revolving round of parties, the blackouts and hangovers, the awkward fumbling of men, the lack of money, the cramped apartment. So she had accepted.

    She had worked with Josh for the past two years at Capital Investments as his administrative assistant. The job paid well, and he had seemed like a good boss in the beginning. But, then, things soon began to change, and his importunities started up. Oh, yes, she remembered all right.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Hearing
    Release dateOct 27, 2013
    ISBN9781310412837
    Over the Edge
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    Michael Hearing

    Michael Hearing is a freelance writer/essayist/novelist living with his wife, dogs, cats, horses, and ferrets on a few acres with a small lake in northeastern Oklahoma. There, he tries to grow vegetables, catches quite a few fish, and does his writing.Having lived a fairly desultory life, Michael decided that it’s time for some order and method. So he is finishing up and publishing some books he’s had in the works for many years. But, still, he is likely to be all over the genre map. In most cases, though, he has lived what he writes about, and his works ring true.

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      Over the Edge - Michael Hearing

      Over the Edge

      Michael Hearing

      Spring Lake Books

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013

      All rights reserved. This book may not be used or reproduced in any manner—by any means or in any medium whatsoever—in part or in whole without written permission of the author (except, of course, small excerpts in reviews). Please respect intellectual property rights and help authors protect what they've created.

      This story is a work of fiction. The characters and situations presented here are nothing more than inventions of the author’s imagination.

      Over the Edge

      She stood in the middle of the trail with her back to cliff-edge and the abyss below, her breathing shallow and rapid as her thumbs flew across the buttons on her phone. Her highlighted and feathered blonde hair lifted just perceptibly off her shoulders in the thin mountain breeze, but her mascara remained decidedly unaffected. The text message went like this:

      u r the first to know. its done ive taken care of it. idk what comes next but im free now. dont worry about me ill c

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