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The Snippet

It was a dark and stormy night and Mr. Robert Ingersoll, a writer, philosopher, and retired lawyer from Dobbs Ferry, New York, was lost in the woods. He was unsure how he came to be in the woods or even which woods he found himself in. He supposed that he must still be in New York, but where in New York, he was uncertain.

An hour previously, Robert had woken at the base of an impressive conifer, which led him to believe that he must have been beaten and robbed. However, the fact that he felt no pain and appeared not to have a single bruise or scrape countered the theory that he had been the victim of a thrashing.

“They must have chloroformed me,” Robert surmised. “Surely that is the case, for I feel quite undamaged. They were gentlemen, these robbers, inasmuch as a robber can be a gentleman. This will work in their favor if they are ever brought to justice.”
The PleaI promised that I would never again do a multiple blog hop post for one of my stories, but on this occasion, I am looking for beta readers for a 4000-word piece of dark humor/speculative fiction that I will be submitting for publication in an anthology. I will provide the link in case you decide that you'd like to submit a piece too!
https://michaelaventrella.com/2021/09/14/three-time-travelers-walk-into-guidelines-for-submissions/

Fair warning that the piece does contain offensive language. The three travelers are:
 Robert G. Ingersoll, an American author renowned for his agnostic viewpoints
His Holiness Pope John Paul II
Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church
Fred Phelps' dialogue mostly consists of his own words, which are homophobic in the extreme. 
If you would like to look over the piece and make sure that I'm seeing the forest as well as the individual trees (in other words, read for clarity) I would greatly appreciate it. I can pay you back in kind by proofreading, beta reading, or reviewing one of your stories, or I can provide you a guest post on Readers Roost.https://bit.ly/ReadersRoost
Leave a comment including your email if you'd be interested in helping. If for some reason you can't comment (i.e. because Blogger and WordPress don't play nicely with each other) or would prefer not to leave your email address in a comment, email me at chartley65 at gmail dot com and put BETA READER in the subject line in all caps so I'll be less likely to miss it. 
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