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    The Cipher
    The Cipher
    The Cipher
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    The Cipher

    By Mike Bozart

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    A middle-aged man, a home inspector, stumbles upon a short cipher in a southwestern Virginia (USA) coffee shop. As he tries to solve it, the weather conditions worsen. Then there is a medical emergency. Later that evening, the Cherokee barista wonders if it was too much.

    Approx. 1200 words.

    If this little vignette were expanded into an American movie, it would be rated G (ok for all ages).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Bozart
    Release dateMar 23, 2018
    ISBN9781370479689
    The Cipher
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    Mike Bozart

    Mike Bozart was born in the tidewater area of Virginia (US Navy kid) on a hot afternoon in 1964. He attended a mix of public and Catholic grade schools. After graduating with an Earth Science degree from UNC-Charlotte in 1986, he started doing safety technical writing.Former residences in North Carolina include Raleigh, Greensboro, Wilmington, Carolina Beach, Etowah and Asheville. Charlotte is his current residence. He has also lived in downtown San Francisco (early '90s).Mike has written numerous surreal poem-stories and over a dozen 1500-word quasi-real short stories under the psecret psociety heading. Gold, his first novel, was rough-drafted in just 27 days during a seven-week period (May 23 – July 11, 2013).Mike's first novella was To Morrow Tomorrow (2014); his second was Mysterieau of San Francisco (2015).Mike does artwork under the nom de brosse of m. van tryke.The author is happily remarried (Sharon) with a son (Kirk).

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