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    Coup de Grace
    Coup de Grace
    Coup de Grace
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    Coup de Grace

    By Richard Diedrichs

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    Miranda drives to meet her deadbeat ex-husband after eight years of no word. She plans to tell him all that she has felt about his betrayal. When she faces him across the coffeeshop table, he stops her in her tracks by what he offers her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Diedrichs
    Release dateMay 25, 2017
    ISBN9781370470259
    Coup de Grace
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    Richard Diedrichs

    Richard Diedrichs grew up in Los Angeles. He edited travel and health magazines in Seattle, worked as an editor at the schools of Engineering and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and then taught Fourth and Fifth grades and Kindergarten in public elementary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Richard has published novels, short stories, nonfiction and essays. He currently works as an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. Richard lives in a beach town on the south central California coast.

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      Coup de Grace - Richard Diedrichs

      Coup de Grace

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      Richard Diedrichs

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      My red Mustang rumbling at the curb, I glanced into my side mirror. As far back as I could see, a steady stream of cars rolled east along Los Feliz Boulevard. Were they evacuating Glendale without telling me?

      Come on, dammit. Blinker’s on. Give me a break. Let me in. Look at this guy next to me, won’t even make eye contact, lunging forward to make sure I don’t squeeze in. People forget who they are when they drive. Nothing personal. Just another faceless windshield blocking the road. I stomped the gas pedal and jammed in front of the next car in line. The driver in a Dodgers cap hit his horn. I saw him in the rearview mirror, jawing at me for a block. At the left curve on to Western Avenue, I watched his white van shrink behind, as traffic fell away and I hit sixty,

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