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    <body><![CDATA[A good short story is a breath of fresh air; a great short story is a shot of heroin. Anyone who believes that short stories differ from novels only in length has clearly never read a great one. One way to rectify this would be to read A Faker's Dozen: Stories, a collection of 11 gems by Melvin Jules Bukiet. In this, his third short story collection, Bukiet slowly lures the reader into his fictional world, starting near the shadowy border between the real and the ludicrous and then moving firmly into the fantastical by way of the sinister.<br/><br/>Read the rest of my review on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/fakersdozen.htm">The Short Review</a>.]]></body>
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