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    Odd True Tales, Volume 4
    Odd True Tales, Volume 4
    Odd True Tales, Volume 4
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    Odd True Tales, Volume 4

    By Mimi Riser

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    The fourth installment of the “Odd True Tales” series – quirky and quick reading – an offbeat collection of strange events & experiences drawn from history and the authors’ own lives. Volume 4 includes the stories: “Angel Voices”; “The Ballad of Belle Gunness”; “Mother Shipton’s Handkerchief”; “A Yuletide Tarot Tale”; and “Einstein Was Light...er, Right?”...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMimi Riser
    Release dateMar 9, 2014
    ISBN9781311977434
    Odd True Tales, Volume 4
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    Mimi Riser

    Mimi Riser is a longtime author of fiction and nonfiction, including several series and spanning a variety of genres (with flavors ranging from sweet to spicy hot). Her books celebrate the upbeat, the offbeat, and “beating the odds.” She began life in the urban northeast, but now resides in the rural southwest with her best friend & husband Rob.

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      Odd True Tales, Volume 4 - Mimi Riser

      The fourth installment of the Odd True Tales series – quirky and quick reading – an offbeat collection of strange events and experiences drawn from history and the authors’ own lives. This volume includes the stories: Angel Voices; The Ballad of Belle Gunness; Mother Shipton’s Handkerchief; A Yuletide Tarot Tale; and Einstein Was Light…er, Right?…

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      ODD TRUE TALES

      Volume 4

      Mimi & Rob Riser

      www.mimiriser.com

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 by Mimi & Rob Riser

      (All rights reserved.)

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      Chapter 1

      Angel Voices

      by Rob Riser

      Cosmic experiences come in several different categories. They haven’t found a category for this one yet.

      When Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) composed his First Symphony, as a Vienna Conservatory graduation exercise in 1879, at the age of nineteen, he probably didn’t realize it contained angelic voices…

      In February of 1979, The Torrington

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