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    The Recent 86 Tram Disaster as Outlined in a Series of Ten Character Studies
    The Recent 86 Tram Disaster as Outlined in a Series of Ten Character Studies
    The Recent 86 Tram Disaster as Outlined in a Series of Ten Character Studies
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    The Recent 86 Tram Disaster as Outlined in a Series of Ten Character Studies

    By Patrick O'Duffy

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    What caused the recent explosion on the 86 tram?

    Who were the people who witnessed the event?

    And how does the omniscient viewpoint of a narrator affect the lives of those characters it describes?

    A short story about intersecting lives and the expectations of narrative.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrick O'Duffy
    Release dateSep 10, 2011
    ISBN9781466109544
    The Recent 86 Tram Disaster as Outlined in a Series of Ten Character Studies
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    Patrick O'Duffy

    Patrick O'Duffy is tall, Australian and a professional editor, although not always in that order. He has written role-playing games, short fiction, a little journalism and freelance non-fiction, and is currently working on a novel, although frankly not working hard enough. He loves off-kilter fiction, Batman comics and his wife, and finds this whole writing-about-yourself-in-the-third-person thing difficult to take seriously.

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