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Tom Bentley, Professional Writing Services

The Write Word Fiction Samples

This page used to house a number of my published short stories, but because most of those are going to be published in a collection late this year or early the next, I’ve just left the one below, a sordid tale of guilt, shame (and shoplifting).

All That Glitters
Winner of the National Steinbeck Center’s 1999 Short Story Contest.


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