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    Carving Time
    Carving Time
    Carving Time
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    Carving Time

    By L Frank Turovich

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    When Charles persuades Leon to visit a local museum, he is convinced he can solve the puzzle of the carved bone’s creation. Leon’s life changes forever when he touches the ancient artifact.

    A short urban fantasy story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL Frank Turovich
    Release dateAug 2, 2015
    ISBN9781940246123
    Carving Time
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    L Frank Turovich

    L Frank Turovich (1956- ) was born and raised in Flint, Michigan where he became a rabid reader of science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, comics and everything else not nailed down. He’s spent time in the Marine Corp before breaking into writing via articles in Nibble Mac and Inside BASIC magazines, then graduated to technical writing, training, and managing teams for companies like Zedcor, Metrowerks, Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, and Nokia, before leaving to pursue his fiction writing ambition. He currently resides in Michigan in a home filled with books, computers, and two cats (Java and Larry).

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      Leon touched the ancient carved bone and his world shattered.

      Tremors froze him with deadly cold or alternately baked him in sulfurous heat and if it was possible he would have screamed. It seemed to go on forever before his legs gave out. He fell to the museum’s tiled floor in convulsions he neither comprehended nor controlled. His friend Charles called to him from a vast distance that dwindled away like water evaporating on hot rocky ground. Then there was blackness.

      Get up Ahute, a gruff voice said with a strange accent.

      Leon tried to say something but nothing came out. He looked up to see a tanned stranger standing over him in rough sewn leather garments with fur trim. His blue-black hair was long and framed a boney face with a taut disgusted expression on it. The figure resembled early etchings of islanders drawn by artists who read the descriptive notes of sea explorers to draw details from.

      Get up. The fever has broken.

      Where, where am I? Leon forced his stubborn mouth to shape the question but the words that came out were unlike any language he knew. He stopped in shock. What was happening?

      The man crouched down to

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