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    Under The Woodlands
    Under The Woodlands
    Under The Woodlands
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    Under The Woodlands

    By Brick ONeil

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    JonEthan Aubert was raised by his Grandmere's in the Pacific Northwest between two large cities. He was happy, living in his large victorian home on the edge of the big forest. One day his world was turned upside down by some mean people and a Blue Fairy shrunk him down to size! He meets a family of Wood Elves, a MAGE council and a big bad Ogre!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick ONeil
    Release dateNov 13, 2015
    ISBN9781310474545
    Under The Woodlands
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    Brick ONeil

    Brick ONeil grew up in America’s heartland, the midwestern United States, receiving a Bachelors of Arts in Religious Studies then moving to the southern United States for his Masters in Human Resources, living in both Oklahoma and Texas for some time before settling in the Pacific Northwestern coast in the Emerald City, Seattle.He has been writing professionally since 2001 and before that was a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor in the private workers’ compensation field, still holding his Certified Rehabilitation Counselor certification. He began writing articles and working on projects for clients while writing his first novel, Aside of Murder under his writing business, Lione Services.Now he has ten books under his belt in four genres, fiction-mystery, fiction-short story, non fiction-cookbooks and non fiction-biography. He has his mystery series, The Rose Petal Wine Murder Mysteries with two books published now out of the seven; the cookbook series, “Simple, Healthy, Fresh”, with books 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and the Ultimate; three books of short stories, Different Dreams; Unrelated: A selection of short stories and Triad: Fates, Furies and Graces finally,his short biography, Silver Linings on Dark Clouds (My Life with Alport’s Syndrome) is out as well.Find him online:http://brickoneil.com (pages for each book)http://linkedin.com/in/brickoneilhttps://www.facebook.com/brickoneil

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      Under The Woodlands - Brick ONeil

      Under The Woodlands

      By Brick ONeil

      Published by Lione Services at Smashwords

      Copyright 2015 Brick ONeil

      Discover Other Titles by Brick ONeil at http://brickoneil.com

      Simple Healthy Fresh 1.0

      Simple Healthy Fresh 2.0

      Simple Healthy Fresh 3.0: Dinners

      Introduction to Simple Healthy Fresh

      Ultimate Simple Health Fresh

      Aside of Murder

      The Bamboo Killer

      Different Dreams

      Triad: Fates, Furies and Graces

      Unrelated: A Selection of Short Stories

      Silver Linings on Dark Clouds (My Life with Alports Syndrome)

      Never Trust the Moon

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Under The Woodlands

      CHAPTER ONE

      JonEthan Aubert was born in France, having been told numerous times by his French and German American Grandmothers, Elsa Aubert and Ute Zweig, respectively. His parents passed away from a car accident while they all were vacationing in Switzerland enjoying views from the Alps. Grandmere Aubert would tell him to call Grandmere Zweig ‘Auntie Mame’. He knew the old family joke, having seen both old movies, starring Rosalind Russell and the funny redhead, Lucy Ball, that Grandma Z watched the movie and recited each line with perfection from each character. Sometimes the two Grandmeres and their purple-hatted friends would dress up as characters from the movie and have props, like skates, long cigarette holders, bright orange and red lipsticks that made him giggle and funny sounding drinks.

      ‘Old people sure are weird’, he thought.

      He was nine years old and missed his mom and dad, mere and pere, thank you, very much. His unusual name came from his Grandperes, Jon Aubert and Ethan Zweig. They died centuries ago, he thought. He had seen pictures of them, standing stiff, wearing uncomfortable brown clothes (he was told they wore camel hair suits-and couldn’t believe anyone wanted to wear the camels’ ugly clothes), slicked back black hair, much like his and scowled back at him.

      GO, as he liked to be called, from his initials and last name-JE Au, should have been Joe, but he didn’t like the soft sounding nickname and preferred the harder ‘G’ for GO, was a typical rambunctious nine year old boy, always on the go, who liked mud puddles, frogs and toads, along with his teddy bear, Ljosalfar, and stuffed rabbit, Landvatter-so named from mythological fairy tales his Mere used to read to him at bedtime. He loved his Grandmeres but they didn’t have the energy to raise a ‘lightning bug’ like him. He was always zipping hither and yon, across the acreage, into the small Washington State town where everyone knew his Grandmeres, who shared the big, old Victorian home on the edge of the forest.

      "Go burn off that energy in the woods’ they would say.

      When he was introduced to them when he was a smaller boy, he called them Grand Mirrors, having misunderstood the French term. Everyone was amused by the mistake and now understood why the boy kept staring at them-first with one eye, then the other. He had seen the famous Hall of Mirrors on another Family outing and didn’t think the two older women resembled anything that fancy.

      Oftentimes he would run errands down the few miles from the edge of the forest where his big house with the round bedroom was to town, called Periwinkle, which really consisted of a general store, a small post office and a community store with a smattering of other buildings he didn't know what they did. Everyone was kind and thoughtful, though he had seen some mean people a time or two who were

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