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    Nighthawks
    Nighthawks
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    Nighthawks

    By Joseph D'Agnese

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    (Note: "Nighthawks" is a short story that is also available in the larger collection, Daggyland #1, by the same author.)

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    Two men, a woman, and young soda jerk find themselves alone in a New York City diner in the wee hours of the night.

    Why are they there? What are they saying? What are they doing?

    The artist Edward Hopper first imagined this scene in 1941. Now comes a story that imagines what really happened on that fateful night.

    This short story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

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    “D’Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books.”—Bookviews

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph D'Agnese
    Release dateMar 20, 2015
    ISBN9781941410165
    Nighthawks
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    Joseph D'Agnese

    Joseph D’Agnese is a writer and journalist who lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Though he writes about the Middle Ages, he considers himself a Renaissance man. He is the author of Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci.

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      Book preview

      Nighthawks - Joseph D'Agnese

      Nighthawks

      Nighthawks

      A Short Story

      Joseph D’Agnese

      Nutgraf Productions LLC

      NIGHTHAWKS

      Published by Joseph D’Agnese at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2014 Joseph D’Agnese

      NutGraf Productions LLC

      First digital edition: March 2014

      Cover design by GoOnWrite.com

      Nighthawks first appeared in the April 2014 issue

      of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

      This e-book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this e-book may be reproduced in whole or in part, scanned, photocopied, recorded, distributed in any printed or electronic form, or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without express written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Nighthawks: A Short Story by Joseph D’Agnese

      Two men, a woman, and young soda jerk find themselves alone in a New York City diner in the wee hours of the night.

      Why are they there? What are they saying? What are they doing?

      The artist Edward Hopper first imagined this scene in 1941. Now comes a story that imagines what really happened on that fateful light.

      This unsettling short story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

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      Nighthawks

      Her I. Millers clopped along the sidewalk. She’d paid a mint for them—a whole twenty-five dollars. They were snazzy stompers with heels and straps, and when she’d bought them she imagined herself sitting in nice restaurants drinking shimmering cocktails, not hidden in the closet of such places, checking coats all night.

      She slowed when she reached the diner at the corner of Greenwich Avenue. The place was almost entirely sheathed in glass. A cool, fluorescent triangle jutting onto the sidewalk. Two men sat in inside: a customer and a soda jerk dressed in white. Pale yellow light spilled

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