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    Broken Pieces: A Short Story
    Broken Pieces: A Short Story
    Broken Pieces: A Short Story
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    Broken Pieces: A Short Story

    By Tracy Higley

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    Natalee restores museum pieces, but she's not sure there's much hope for her own shattered life. Until one Christmas Eve, when she meets a stranger with a broken past of his own...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTracy Higley
    Release dateMar 23, 2013
    ISBN9781301445868
    Broken Pieces: A Short Story
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    Tracy Higley

    Tracy L. Higley started her first novel at the age of eight and has been hooked on writing ever since. She has authored ten novels, including Garden of Madness and So Shines the Night. Tracy is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Ancient History and has traveled through Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Italy, researching her novels and falling into adventures. See her travel journals and more at TracyHigley.com

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      Broken Pieces - Tracy Higley

      Broken Pieces

      Tracy Higley

      Copyright Tracy Higley 2014

      Published by StoneWater Press at Smashwords

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      I hate that cold, stone beast.

      I pressed my forehead against the chilly glass pane of my darkened museum workroom and watched a light blink on inside the New City Church across the street.

      Okay, I didn’t hate the church. Not truly. But I knew that it would soon open its doors to righteous Christmas Eve worshippers, while others of us, lost in the guilt of past mistakes, would long for redemption from distant places across the street.

      I breathed a patch of fog onto the glass, then pushed away and turned back to my worktable, where broken things were still able to be repaired.

      I shared this cramped, street-level workroom in the museum with two other restorers, but they had

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