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: Darker the Release is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or
  are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  A Loveswept eBook Original
  Copyright © 2015 by Claire Kent
  Excerpt from Taking It Off by Claire Kent copyright © 2015 by Claire Kent
  All rights reserved.
  Published in the United States by Loveswept, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
  New York.
  LOVESWEPT is a registered trademark and the LOVESWEPT colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.
  This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming book Taking It Off by Claire Kent. This excerpt has been set for this
  edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.
  eBook ISBN 9781101886281
  Cover design: Lynn Andreozzi
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  Contents
  Title Page
  Copyright
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Cha