Earl Merkel's Writings
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Short Story
Apr.26.2009
Chapter 1
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Fort Walton Beach, FloridaJuly 21
Breakfast today was an apple, a bright-red Macintosh, and Dr. Carol Mayer bit into it with the aggrieved attitude of a hungry woman deprived of a decent meal. It made a satisfyingly crunching sound, and tasted delicious and sweet. But it was still an apple, and as such a woefully insufficient substitute for a...
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Short Story
Apr.23.2008
From VIRGINS AND MARTYRS: An Aria Quynn Novel (Five Star, April 2008)
Virgins And Martyrs: Chapter 1
The uniformed Sheriff’s deputy waved me forward, and I edged carefully around a Lexus that partiallyblocked the oncoming lane. Its driver’s-side door was winged out, left open as if in a careless discourtesy.
As I passed, I could see that it had locked bumpers with the car in front, a blue Toyota that wasitself angled hard against...
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About Earl
Earl Merkel is the author of Fire Of The Prophet (Diversion Books, 2013); Virgins And Martyrs (Five Star 2008, under the name "E L Merkel"; Final Epidemic (PenguinPutnam/NAL), a Barnes and Noble national bestseller re-released in hardcover by Elmtree Press/...
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