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    Glyphics: In the Beginning...
    Glyphics: In the Beginning...
    Glyphics: In the Beginning...
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    Glyphics: In the Beginning...

    By J. Richard Singleton

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    Two teens get drunk one night overlooking their small town of Smith, New Mexico. One claims that he has uncovered a massive government conspiracy involving aliens colonizing the Earth, but the other assumes that he's just crazy and has had too much to drink...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Richard Singleton
    Release dateOct 8, 2015
    ISBN9781310012525
    Glyphics: In the Beginning...
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    J. Richard Singleton

    Novelist, screenwriter, essayist and true-crime writer, J. Richard Singleton has been crafting stories since high school, with an original screenplay that he wrote, "Thugs," became a semi-finalist in the American Accolades Screenplay Contest. At CSULA, he dual majored in political science and English, writing for both his university's newspaper and literary journal. He completed "Glyphics" right before he turned 21, then he finished it again in 2011. His literary influences include Kafka, Twain, Poe and Stephen King.

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