NEW RELEASES: Flashes of Vice - Volume II

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22 November, 2014
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 Flashes of Vice: Vol II is the second book in the Flashes of Vice series. It is a collection of flash fiction stories touching on the vices affecting the society today: the holy trinity of life – money, sex & crime; terrorism and relationships. 



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