J. A. Stapleton
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I have 106 stories published in
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J. A. Stapleton is the author of three crime novels. His book, film and TV reviews are available on Instagram at @j.a.stapleton
His literary influences are Ian Fleming, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy.
The first book in the Detective Lacey series "THE PATROLMAN" will be published weekly on Fridays on ABCTales.com.
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My stories
The Second World War: PART 10 - Otto Krause - Nuremberg (1946)
KRAUSE 10. 1946 NUREMBERG It was blisteringly cold on the morning of October sixteenth in the south-eastern state of Bavaria. The Palace of Justice,...
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The Second World War: PART 9 - Roger Farrier - Paris (1945)
The smashed mirror of water became whole once more when the unshaven face emerged from its depths.
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The Second World War: PART 8 - Adelise Gèroux - Paris (1944)
Roger Farrier crossed the landing and unlocked the door marked 16A, stepping inside and twisting the lock behind him in the same movement. He slotted the thin brass chain into place and, while drawing it to the right, a horrid feeling came over him.
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The Second World War: PART 7 - Roger Farrier - Paris (1944)
When the café on the corner first opened its doors in the August of 1923, Pierre Goddard and his father thought their clientele would consist mostly of businessmen. Twenty-one years later, his father long gone from polio, with shoulder-length grey hair in a bun, the physical manifestation of a man in a mid-life crisis, and a World War in full swing, it had become frequented by Nazis.
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The Wonky Heart Pebble
It is worth saying that this short lives up to the name of a short story. It is more a flash fiction than anything else I could label it. We were tasked with writing the manifest content of our peer's selected item and letting the others come up with the latent, or interpretation and meaning. Hope you found it as weird as I did as a writer studying dreams for a short while.
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