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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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Tapping a Screen | A Poem

Poetry is likely best produced

By scratching away at parchment thick

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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This deviation distraction device

Is always by my side

Or in my pocket on a ride

Continuously within reach

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Zero G (The Zero Chronicles, #1)

by Dan Wells (Goodreads Author)

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Dan Absalonson said: " Such a fun story. Really well done. Kept me intrigued the whole time. Loved the characters. Can’t wait for my kids to listen to this one. Great full cast production with subtle sound effects and music occasionally. They did a great job on this one. "

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Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)

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Dan Absalonson said: " My 13 year old and I really enjoyed this book. Great slow build, and lots of fun on the way. I like how the story slowly unfolds instead of the author stopping the story to relay tons of stuff in an info dump. I don’t mean to say the story is slow, j ...more "

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