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    A LifeTrade Wedding
    A LifeTrade Wedding
    A LifeTrade Wedding
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    A LifeTrade Wedding

    By Adam Bender

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    Read about the next direction of matchmaking apps – exchanging lives! A reluctant groom leaves his bride at the altar by trading places with a man who wants to be married. A series of testimonials by the wedding party shows how LifeTrade can give everyone a “happily ever after."

    "A LifeTrade Wedding" is a new short story by Adam Bender, author of dystopian novels We, The Watched and Divided We Fall. This is Bender's second yarn about the life exchange service introduced in his short story, "Life Trade."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdam Bender
    Release dateApr 8, 2017
    ISBN9780992462949
    A LifeTrade Wedding
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    Adam Bender

    Adam Bender is an award-winning journalist and author of speculative fiction that explores modern-day societal fears with a mix of action, romance and humor.Bender's latest novel is Utopia PR, a speculative satire about a public-relations specialist who struggles to find work-life balance while managing crisis after crisis for a dystopian American president.Previously, Bender wrote The Wanderer and the New West, a near-future western about a rogue vigilante who seeks redemption in a lawless America that fully protects the rights of armed citizens to stand their ground. Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018, the novel also won gold for Dystopia in the 2018 Readers' Favorite Awards and best Western Fiction in the 2018 National Indie Excellence Awards.Bender authored We, The Watched and Divided We Fall in a dystopian series about an amnesiac who struggles to conform in a surveillance society where the government keeps a Watched list of its own citizens. Also, Bender has published several short stories.In his day job as a journalist, Bender covers telecom and internet regulation for Communications Daily. He has won awards for his reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Specialized Information Publishers Association, and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.Bender lives in Philadelphia with his wife Mallika and son Rishi. He's usually a rather modest and amiable fellow.Learn more about the author at WatchAdam.blog. Follow him on Facebook (wethewatched) and @WatchAdam on Twitter and Instagram.

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      A LifeTrade Wedding - Adam Bender

      A LIFETRADE WEDDING

      by Adam Bender

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      A LifeTrade Wedding

      Copyright © 2017 by Adam Bender

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      Thanks for reading this eBook. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). You may not sell, rent or otherwise profit from any digital or physical copy of this document. You may not prepare derivative works based upon the content. You may make copies of this eBook so long as you do not remove anything, edit any text, or otherwise modify the document.

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