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    Good Prospects: A Stone Garden Tale
    Good Prospects: A Stone Garden Tale
    Good Prospects: A Stone Garden Tale
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    Good Prospects: A Stone Garden Tale

    By J Morrissey

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    Riley is a normal teenage kid. He plays hockey, hangs out with his friends, listens to music and loves his mom. On his way home from hockey practice one evening Riley notices a break in the fence of the old 'Good Prospect' cemetery. Stepping through pulls Riley into a personal nightmare of cold and blood setting him on a path that could lead him to be one of the most powerful Wizards in the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ Morrissey
    Release dateMay 25, 2016
    ISBN9781310795312
    Good Prospects: A Stone Garden Tale
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    J Morrissey

    J. Morrissey lives in south central Massachusetts with his wife and two children.A Computer Science graduate of U Mass. Dartmouth and a long standing computer geek he has built a career in the software industry. J. presently manages projects for a software company in Chelmsford, MA.J. began seriously writing as part of a local writer's group in April 2013.

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      Good Prospects - J Morrissey

      Good Prospects

      A Stone Garden Tale

      By J. Morrissey

      Copyright 2016 J. Morrissey

      Smashwords Edition

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      Acknowledgments

      Beginnings

      Connect with J. Morrissey

      Acknowledgments

      I want to give a quick word of thanks to everyone who had a hand in this work.

      Michelle:

      Thank you for bringing my vision of the cover to life and for the rock steady support all the way through.

      Orlando, Mary, Sarah:

      Thank you all for your straight, honest feedback and more importantly your friendship.

      Ann:

      Thank you dear lady for your valued insight, we miss you.

      I really could not have done this without you!

      J. Morrissey

      The February snow crunches under my feet walking up Jenny Street. I’m just passing Good Prospect cemetery after hockey practice at the Grace Armitage High School rink and heading home. I was warmer standing on the ice than I am now, I think to myself, balling my fingers into a fist inside my gloves to keep them warm. This is not OK.

      All my gear, skates, pads, puck and tape are in the oversize black and gold Boston Bruins bag slung over my shoulder. I balance my Victoriaville hockey stick, signed by none other than the great Bobby Orr himself, over my other shoulder. I smile slightly, remembering that Mom calls this my ‘Hockey Hobo’ look.

      Dad and I both love hockey. It’s one of our things. The Victoriaville was his stick growing up. Dad actually met Bobby Orr when his high school team won their Stanley Cup. He gave the stick to me when I turned ten. Dad was as excited to pass it to me as I was to have it. That is one of the days permanently burned into my mind.

      Looking at him you’d never be able to tell how happy he was that day. Dad had

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