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Weekly Contest #321
Jerry Wicks taught high school chemistry for twenty years in Olympia, Washington. In the evening, he wrote fiction with aspirations of becoming a published author. During a lesson on the chemical reaction that occurs in a battery to create voltage, a student named Aengus asked if a car battery can explode. At that moment, a protagonist announced himself in Jerry’s thoughts, and he scribbled a spattering of ideas that would eventually lead to a story that brought him a $500,000 three-book contract.In his first novel, Death Wears Runners, Ae...
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