title: Dark Thoughts: A Collection of Dark Tales
author:  Martin Reaves 
description: Martin was born in Artesia, a suburb of Los Angeles county. He moved to Auburn, CA in 1993. Over the past thirty-five years Martin has written scores of short stories, plays, and dramatic sketches. And four novels: Relative Karma, Relative Sanity, Relative Yuletide, the award-winning A Fractured Conjuring, and Rosebud Hill: Volume 1. Also available is the highly-acclaimed Dark Thoughts, a collection of short fiction. He is currently at work on a fifth novel. He is also a working musician/singer. He dearly loves to hear from his readers.
zlib_text: **Dark Persuasion**
  
   **Published by Holland Legacy Publishing**
  
   **ISBN: 978-0-9832959-8-3**
  
   **Copyright 2012 by Vicki Hopkins**
  
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  **Work of Fiction**
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is
  entirely coincidental.
  
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   **Table of Contents**
  
  Dedication
  
  Chapter 1 – The Ruffian
  