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    Puppets
    Puppets
    Puppets
    Ebook74 pages43 minutes

    Puppets

    By Raphael Gabriel

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    How can you find yourself in the big city in which no-one knows each other?
    Meet seven people from different worlds and see how their fates tangle with one another...
    Will their experiences really make an impact on their lives?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaphael Gabriel
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9781370490196
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      Book preview

      Puppets - Raphael Gabriel

      Puppets

      by Raphael Gabriel

      I dedicate this book to anyone who suffers loneliness and lost in a big city

      and cannot find his own face in the vastness of millions

      Copyright 2015 Raphael Gabriel

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      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’re reading this book and did

      not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your

      favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard

      work of this author.

      Big city has this quality that everyone is completely alien and new. You can start a new relationship in minutes and end the old one even faster without any thinking and consequences. For these new people, you can be a new person, someone totally different than you were for the whole of your life. How in this diversity of people can old, long-standing friendship survive?

      Chapter 1

      Marc

      Imprisoned in a city without borders. He stood in the very middle of its centre looking through 3 meters height glazed wall of his apartment. The city that never sleeps. It lives all the time but in the late evening and in the night, its face changes. It becomes a place resembling of the slow ghost that moves lazily on its chamber.

      He hates this place but at the same time it excites him. With all its contents. He is most fascinated by its dark side. The side which is forgotten by a day, because you cannot see it, but which revives during the night. Powerlessness, anger, frustration… Aggression and lust… Fornication, rape and murder… He could feel that all in the space of the city. The whole muck of the humanity which may seem to be only in the place where so many people live. Nearly 3 million. Block on the block. Flat on the flat. How in such density can you keep normality and healthy reason? He has the good fortune to live in the 33 floor of a modern skyscraper. She earned it.

      He works in a large company and holds the position of the managing partner. He works from 9 am to 9 or 10 pm. He empathizes with most corporate employees. He’s aware that 99,8 % of them will occupy the same position throughout their lives, or get promoted once or twice. Only a small percentage of them will take place on the top, earning six-figure sum.

      He came up to the length of 3 meters table top made of Italian marble. He opened the bar and took out a 10-year-old whiskey. He filled two square glasses to 1/3 volume. He threw 3 ice cubes to each.

      The door’s bell rang. He heard how they opened and closed after a while. In a moment, a tall and lovely brunette Lexi stepped into the living room, on small but sharp heels. She was dressed in a bright skirt and jacket, under which she wore pale pink, breathable shirt. Her perfectly arranged hair and toned makeup made that she looked dignified in her divinity. She was a woman who cared about every detail of her life and her image with great precision.

      Without a word he looked into her side handing her a glass of whiskey. She thanked him with a nod and followed him. They stopped in front of the

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