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    GPSimone
    GPSimone
    GPSimone
    Ebook36 pages28 minutes

    GPSimone

    By Nicola Rain Jordan

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    This collection contains two dark tales from Down Under.

    The title story is 'GPSimone'. It's after midnight in western Sydney and Ashlea has discovered a disturbing secret about her boyfriend Luke and his mates from the Air Force base. Now she's alone in her car with him and she's in deep trouble. Lucky for Ashlea, the car's GPS navigation system has a mind of its own...

    This eBook contains a bonus story. 'Challenging Behaviour' is a twisted mystery set in a Queensland disability support residence where nothing is what it seems.

    The combined word count for this bonus edition is 7,900 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNicola Rain Jordan
    Release dateSep 17, 2011
    ISBN9781465894625
    GPSimone
    Author

    Nicola Rain Jordan

    Nicola Rain Jordan is an Australian writer. Born and raised on the western outskirts of Sydney, she now lives on the New South Wales/Queensland border. Her debut novel The Spider Wasp is coming soon.

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      GPSimone - Nicola Rain Jordan

      GPSimone

      &

      Challenging Behaviour

      by

      Nicola Rain Jordan

      Published by Weapon Books at Smashwords

      Cover by Tara Shuler

      Copyright 2011 Nicola Rain Jordan. All Rights Reserved.

      The two stories herein are works of fiction. All of the characters, places and events portrayed herein are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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      Table of Contents

      GPSimone

      Challenging Behaviour

      About The Author

      GPSimone

      GPS. I’m one.

      GPSimone.

      She named me after an old movie about a lady who turned into a panther. The actress, Simone Simon, was born in Bethune, France and she was devastatingly hot. The Mistress played the DVD on a road trip last summer and I didn’t see the resemblance—I’m an electronic device and I don’t turn into anything but streets—however I do have a magnificent accent and it pleases her to name things so who am I to complain? The car has a name too, it’s Kitty if you must know, and I miss her terribly since I was thrown from the window at 3.13 this morning, torn violently from the cigarette plug and losing all my bearings.

      ***

      The car and I, we never liked xxLUKExx. He road raged, ground the gears and spun through the levels of the Penrith Plaza carpark, veering around prams and old people. He drove us to cage fights (public event, no data available) in suburbs with serious crime risk (NSW Police Service data). He parked us in alleys where Kitty’s mirrors were smashed and her antenna snapped off by boys in hooded sweatshirts. When he used me he bashed on my face with his meaty fingers and swore at me when I corrected him.

      The first thing Luke gave the Mistress was a wide and noisy sports muffler (in case his friends saw him driving a hatchback,

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