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    Death Is My Shadow
    Death Is My Shadow
    Death Is My Shadow
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    Death Is My Shadow

    By Marsell Morris

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    While on vacation on the beautiful island of Jamaica to save his marriage, Marcus encounters and offends a black magic, voodoo, priest, who curses him with the power of death. A book from the quick read series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarsell Morris
    Release dateAug 21, 2018
    ISBN9780463880586
    Death Is My Shadow
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    Marsell Morris

    Marsell was born in Detroit Michigan in the year of... well, a good while ago. After graduating from Cass Technical High School, Marsell went to work for the Chrysler Corporation as a conveyor loader. Shortly after beginning his employment with Chrysler, he married, and fathered three children. Thirty-one years later, and after having gained the position of production supervisor, he retired at fifty.After retiring, he began playing golf everyday and all day. Having lowered his handicap to near scratch, and winning a tournament at even par, and behind a debilitating injury, he was unable to continue playing. He had a lot of free time on his hands, whereupon, he took up writing as a hobby and time killer and discovered he had talent for spinning a yarn.After pounding out eleven urban fictions, covering everything from drug use, prostitution, gang crime, murder, and romance/erotica, and having always been a science fiction fan from his teenage years, he thought he’d try his hand at writing a Sci-Fi tail, which culminated in his first work “Alien Plot - First Contact” now retitled "Alien Offensive - Nanobot Storm" and its four sequels, and which, at one time before he ran into problems with its publisher, was considered good fodder for production as a movie, not because he is such a great writer, but because of its unique, previously unexplored, plot.He still lives in Detroit, and being a compulsive writer, he spends most of his time wearing out his fourth keyboard replacement, while pursuing what he loves doing — writing more tails with unique story lines.

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      Book preview

      Death Is My Shadow - Marsell Morris

      Death Is My Shadow

      A book from the quick read series

      BY

      Marsell Morris

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form

      without written permission from the author.

      For more information, write to:

      Marsellmorris@aol.com

      Distributed by:

      Smashwords.com

      ISBN: 9780463880586

      The characters and dialogue contained here-in are products of the author's imagination, and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to an actual person, living or dead, or an establishment, existing, or defunct, is entirely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2018 All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

      Works By Marsell

      Urban Fiction, Murder, and Romance-Erotica

      Detroit Cracked: Book 1

      Detroit Cracked: Book 2 - Big-D's Return

      Detroit Cracked: Book 3 - Boss-man's Rise

      Detroit Cracked: Book 4 - Boss-lady's Rise

      Detroit Cracked: Box Set

      Detroit Street Gang

      Romance Discovered

      Detroit's Sin Hotel

      Snakes Don't Walk

      Midnight Sex in Detroit

      Rage in Detroit

      Detroit Cabbie

      Five Finger Discount

      A Collection of Detroit Stories

      Blind Obedience

      Death Is My Shadow

      SCIENCE FICTION

      Alien Offensive: Book 1 - Nanobot Storm

      Alien Offensive: Book 2 - The Terraforming of Earth

      Alien Offensive: Book 3 - Humankind Strikes Back

      Alien Offensive: Book 4 - Virulent Virus

      Alien Offensive: Book 5 - Ultimate Sacrifice

      Alien Offensive: Boxed Set

      Beyond the Beginning - Brock's Adventures

      Beyond the Beginning - Brock's Adventures - Episode Two

      Beyond the Beginning - Brock's Adventures - Episode Three

      Beyond the Beginning: Boxed Set

      The Immortality Of Brian Gray

      The God Machine

      RELIGIOUS

      A Message: Salvation For All

      Faith Unwavering: Biblical Rhymes

      Faith Unwavering And A message: Combined

      NONFICTION

      A Straight Talk To The Young Black Male

      Young, Black, And On Death Row

      How And Why To Not Commit Suicide

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      The author is extremely grateful to all of you, who wish to remain unnamed, for your help in writing this novel. Without your aid, this work could not have been produced.

      Thank You.

      Prologue

      So, you think it can't happen to you, huh? Don't be so sure until you read this story.

      The Author

      Chapter 1

      Yeah, I know. I've heard it before. This is going to sound crazy. However, as crazy as it may sound, it did happen, and believe me, it can happen to you. So, hold off on your judgments until you've finished reading.

      Okay, where should I begin? It isn't as if there was a real beginning. It kind of developed over time until it's now a nightmare — a nightmare with no waking up from.

      Let's see, I think I'll begin by telling you a little about myself. That's as good a place as any.

      I grew up in a two parent family with a hard working father and attentive mother. Although we were barely in the lower middle class income bracket, my brother, sister, and I, had pretty much what we needed, and every now and then, a bit more.

      A much as I can remember, my early, preteen, years, were what you might consider as being average. Nothing extraordinary happened to me that you might consider unusual to a kid growing up in an economically depress, near eastside, part of Detroit, not far from what some folks called Black Bottom. And no, it wasn't called Black Bottom because mostly black folks lived there. The moniker was innocently given to that particular area of Detroit because of the black, rich, marsh soils, predominant in the area.

      As a kid, I did what most kids did in my neck of the woods. We shot marbles, made bows and arrows out of the predominantly growing weed trees that grew with pretty straight branches. We made two kinds of slingshots — one the traditional kind with tree branch handles and the slings made of cut up car or bicycle inner-tubes, and the other less traditional — well, actually, not as much a sling shot, as a sling gun, made out of nailed together plaster lath boards that were exposed in the many, abandoned, derelict, houses, which peppered the neighborhood. Well, come to think about it, those guns, that we shot bent over, bottle cap, tipped, weed tree arrows out of, were more a sort of spear-gun, absent the crossbows, and were powered by the usual strips of cut up inner-tubes.

      We climbed trees while picking spiny, chestnuts, played baseball in the allies, and while dodging horse poop, chased the rag man that drove down those allies in a horse drawn cart, while attempting to catch a ride on the rear of his wagon.

      I remember that back then, we had boys clubs we could visit to make toy, wooden, cars, and other things. We had neighborhood movie houses, and a community center that showed movies projected on a white sheet every Thursday night.

      We made go-carts that we raced while being pushed with a length of two-by-four.

      We had a roller rink not far away, as well as a community swimming pool.

      I could go on while listing many other summer break distractions available to us, but I think you get the point, which is even though our neighborhood was considered economically depressed, the kids living there were blessed with imagination and devised many ways to entertain themselves, and weren't deprived of plenty of stuff to do during summer vacations.

      I don't remember much about my late teen years, the years through high school, and there is a good reason. Let me explain. Even as a preteen, I've always had a hard time remembering dates, faces, and just about anything that didn't have my deep interest. I can remember, as a youth, and having read somewhere about a perpetual motion machine, I became fascinated by, and tried to construct one.

      At that time, a period before high school, I knew nothing about the laws of thermal dynamics and the conservation of energy, which dictate a perpetual machine is impossible. Boy, did I discover it was impossible. I spent countless hours constructing possible configuration after fabrication, but nothing would work and never will.

      See, I was enamored by the possibility of a machine that would run forever without outside power until it broke, and even though I knew it wouldn't work, I kept trying. I guess I figured I'd get lucky or something. I don't know.

      I didn't know it at the time, but I was interested in science. Not all science, just the physical aspects that didn't require me to remember complicated chemical equations or formulas such as in chemistry class, which I hated.

      But, when it came to my physics class, I loved it and couldn't wait to attend each day. Physics made sense to my logical, orientated, mind. I understood the basic principles behind physics. I can remember when my physics teacher demonstrated how two, vastly different objects, such as a feather and a steel ball, would fall at the same speed in a vacuum. I didn't know why at the time, but it made sense to me for some reason. And later, when I learned that outside any other influences, gravity acts the same on all matter, that, too, made sense to me. It was logical and explained the ball and feather thing.

      Another study I found easy was Math. It was logical. One plus one is always going to equal

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