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    Missing: The Morris Mysteries, #1
    Missing: The Morris Mysteries, #1
    Missing: The Morris Mysteries, #1
    Ebook39 pages32 minutesThe Morris Mysteries

    Missing: The Morris Mysteries, #1

    By Shawn Jolley

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    Dead parents. A new life. Can this teen get along with his crime-solving uncle?

     

    Metal crumples and sparks fly when a train collides with a car killing the driver and passenger. Their teenage son's life is shattered and he is sent across the country to live with his uncle.

     

    What he finds—and doesn't find—waiting for him in the small western town surprises him.

     

    Will he be able to help his uncle, who happens to be a private investigator, solve the local kidnapping case?

     

    Ready to Meet the Investigators?

     

    The Morris Mysteries revolve around a pair of private investigators, amateur Evan and expert Cecil. This duo finds itself investigating the stranger communities of the world, where secrets are kept secret against all outsiders and where cases unfold in unusual and often destructive ways.

     

    Missing is the first novelette in The Morris Mysteries series of young adult stories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShawn Jolley
    Release dateJun 27, 2018
    ISBN9781386101772
    Missing: The Morris Mysteries, #1
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    Shawn Jolley

    Shawn Jolley was born and raised in northern Utah near the Wasatch Mountain Range, a place now called Silicon Slopes by tech enthusiasts and hipsters. He grew up in a small suburban home in a small suburban neighborhood situated between two large farms and a miniature ranch. His first job was working as a farmhand for an excessively rich horse breeder. Once housing developments cannibalized the surrounding farmland, he got a job at a small movie theater on Main Street that had seen one-too-many rat problems. From there, he obtained a job at Utah Valley University, worked his way through a creative writing degree, and graduated into an economy recovering from a global recession. He wrote his first book, Fracture After Dark, a suspenseful young adult thriller that met with favorable reviews. A genre-crossing short story collection followed that, titled, A Dragon, Some Whiskey, and People, as well as a series of private-investigator novellas, The Morris Mysteries. Jolley continues to write and publish fiction from his northern Utah residence. You can stay up-to-date with his future releases by visiting shawnjolley.com.

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      Missing - Shawn Jolley

      Missing

      A Mystery Short Story

      Shawn Jolley

      Copyright © 2018 Shawn Jolley.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, contact the publisher, subject Attention: Permissions Coordinator, at the website below.

      Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Names, characters, and places are products of the author's imagination.

      Independently published.

      First printing 2018.

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      Missing

      The Morris Mysteries #1

      My parents named me Evan Morris. They died when I was fifteen years old. I remember when the doctor told me about their deaths, I punched the hospital wall and cried in the hallway. He didn't try to prepare me for the heart-wrenching news that would change my life forever. He didn't sit me down. There wasn't a moment of hesitation on his part. He just stated their demise, plain and simple.

      Their deaths were sudden, he said. They stalled on the tracks and the train couldn't stop in time. I'm sorry.

      I stared at him after he said that. Just for a moment. Of course, I wasn't really looking at him. I was looking at my life through a microscope. Everything was fuzzy and bulbous—I think it was a blur of memory. I remember seeing red. I didn't feel pain when my knuckles hit the wall, but my hand did start to bleed and somebody put a bandage on it.

      The doctor left me with a tall social worker who drove me to a cramped brick building on the edge of town where I fell asleep. On the car ride over, I was asked if I wanted to talk, but I didn't. I don't remember anything else about that day. All the days that followed were a similar haze of emotionless faces and lengthy meetings. Mostly, for grief counseling.

      Without any siblings or nearby relatives, I was left alone in the world.

      After a month of waiting in the custody of the state, I traveled eight hundred miles across the country to live with my Uncle Cecil: my only living relative. The majority of my journey was made by rail because nobody wanted to drive me and there were no airports near the small western town where he was currently living. I was told that he traveled frequently for his job.

      What does he do for a living? I asked the social worker on my last day in the cramped brick building.

      "He'll be able to tell you

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