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Dan first started writing stories in elementary school, where he and a friend would skip lunch and recess once a month to eat in the library while hearing all about the new books on the shelves. His love for reading, as with visual art and music, has now extended into creating his own fiction. He works as a digital artist and lives in Washington state with his beautiful family of five. A huge fan of audio books, Dan podcasts all of his stories for free. You can find those stories here, or subscribe to the podcast with a button on the right. You can also find cheap eBooks of his stories at Amazon.com and the same ones in different formats including free eBooks at Smashwords.com

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Across creamy tan

Not xerox white

The corners curled not pressed flat and tight

With quill freshly dipped

In ink as black as night

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The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)

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