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\SetTitle{Dark and Stormy}
\SetSubtitle{A Tale of Nights}
\SetAuthor{Dirk Hardcase}
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{\addfontfeature{Scale=1.25} Nonexistent Publications\\
Anytown • Anyplace • Anywhere}\par

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\textsc{Dark and Stormy}\par
Copyright ©2017 Dirk Hardcase.\par % Whichever year, copyright holder.
All Rights Reserved.\par % Usually no need to be elaborate.
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This is a work of fiction.\\
All persons and events are\\
from the author's imagination.\\
Resemblance to any real person,\\
living or dead, is coincidental.\par % Or similar language.
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ISBN 0-12345678-9\par % Whatever it is. No barcode, just number.
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Independently Published by Dirk Hardcase,\par % Publisher is you, not the print/distribution service.
Anytown, Anystate USA\par % Publisher's location.
www.example.com/dhardcase/publications/\par % Contact for publisher or author.
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Publisher's Cataloging-In-Publication Data\\
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\noindent When the lone raccoon howls at dusk,\\
And white birds cease their twitter,\\
Then shall the rivers overflow with mead.\par
\hfill---\textit{Prophecy of Claudius}\par
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It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Withens rode his horse through the gloom, which was, as heretofore mentioned, dark. Most gloom is dark, eh wot?

Moving right along, his horse arrived at the back door of Lady Wishintale's quarters. Sadly, Lord Withens was not on it, having slipped off his saddle along the way. That was because the weather was stormy.

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The night was still dark and stormy. This should not be surprising, seeing as how only half an hour has elapsed since the first chapter. That information was necessary, in case you put the book down and haven't read any of it for the last two weeks.

Lord Withens, wet and bruised, finally arrived at his destination. The reason he was wet was because, as has been noted, the weather was stormy. It was dark, too.

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