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    Elevator Music: A Romantic Holiday Story
    Elevator Music: A Romantic Holiday Story
    Elevator Music: A Romantic Holiday Story
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    Elevator Music: A Romantic Holiday Story

    By Rusty Fischer

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    Darby is heading home on New Year’s Eve when she gets stuck in the elevator with a handsome stranger. But just when their last minute love story is heating up, the elevator starts and they part ways forever. Or will a New Year’s miracle bring them back together for a second chance at holiday romance?

    This 5,820-word short story is 31 pages long.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRusty Fischer
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    Elevator Music: A Romantic Holiday Story
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    Rusty Fischer

    Rusty Fischer is a full-time freelance writer, multi-published ghostwriter and the author of dozens of published books across a variety of genres, from nonfiction to fiction, including his popular A Living Dead Love Story series from Medallion Press. Visit him at www.rustyfischer.com to read more!

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      Is it Love-at-Fist-Sight for a unsuspecting lonely couple who just happen to meet in a stalled elevator... Both are shy and uncertain, will fate allow them to meet again..

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    Elevator Music - Rusty Fischer

    Elevator Music:

    A Romantic Holiday Story

    By Rusty Fischer, author of A Town Called Snowflake

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    Elevator Music

    Rusty Fischer

    Copyright 2013 by Rusty Fischer

    Smashwords Edition

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    This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, places and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

    Cover credit: © Syda Productions – Fotolia.com

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    Author’s Note:

    The following is a FREE short story edited by the author himself. If you see any glaring mistakes, I apologize and hope you don’t take it out on my poor characters, who had nothing to do with their author’s bad grammar!

    Happy reading… and happy holidays!

    Enjoy!

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    Elevator Music:

    A Romantic Holiday Story

    I’m humming the elevator song when the car stops on floor # 28. I bite my lip and tap my foot softly instead. It’s a Christmas song, something instrumental and a little jazzy, but for the life of me I can’t quite figure out what it is.

    I guess they haven’t switched it over to after-holiday mode yet, which is good for me. I always feel like New Year’s Eve is kind of like a Christmas do-over anyway, even if I have spent the entire afternoon writing about Valentine’s Day. (Long story.)

    The doors slide open and it takes a minute for him to focus and step on board. He’s got his head down, texting somebody, and I check him out without being overly obvious about it.

    Nice suit, gray slacks on the shiny side, stiff white shirt,

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