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What is love and romance, and who (or what) can be loved? Top Writers Block takes on the Romance genre in this hefty collection filled with 4 short fiction stories and 6 poems. Not all in the collection is flowers blossoming and love. There is humor, and longing, and questioning...and even some horror. Take a chance on talented independent authors Tracey Howard, Melissa A. Szydlek, Barnaby Wilde, Suzy Stewart Dubot, Alan Naylor, Elizabeth Rowan Keith, and Antoine Randolph Watts.
Your purchase of this ebook not only helps independent authors, but it helps charity as well. Top Writers Block is an international group of writers who continue to donate all of their author proceeds to Sea Shepherd in France, an organization that devotes itself to preserving our seas and oceans and the life within.
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Top Writers Block is a diverse and eclectic group of talented writers who decided to write stories together - just for the fun of it! We are happy to announce that authors proceeds have always gone, and will continue to go, to Sea Shepherd.fr every time Smashwords has made a payment! Thank you to those who have supported the group, independent authors, and Sea Shepherd. Our collections are usually written with one theme or genre in mind. Each author contributes when they have the time, so some of the collections have as many as twelve authors participating. Every collection has something new, with stories and poems ranging from romance, drama, and adventure to mystery, fantasy, and horror. All the Top Writers Block's proceeds will go to Sea Shepherd, so by buying you are helping to keep our oceans alive! Thank You all so much!
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Romance - Top Writers Block
A Collection of Short Stories
by
TOP WRITERS BLOCK
Written in the genre of:
ROMANCE
Copyright ©February 2017 by each individual author as noted
Published on Smashwords
Cover Graphic from Adobe Stock
ISBN: 9781370818303
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Life Long Loves by Tracey Howard
My Son John by Melissa A. Szydlek
Dottie’s Guy by Barnaby Wilde
The Winchmore Hill Dog Trainer by Suzy Stewart Dubot
Moira & Keegan by Alan Naylor
Someday by Elizabeth Rowan Keith
This Girl in the Dark by Antoine Randolph Watts
Do You Love? by Melissa A. Szydlek
Star Child by Tracey Howard
Christy & Jim by Alan Naylor
LIFE LONG LOVES
by
Tracey Howard
Copyright ©February 2017 Tracey Howard
Tracey is a stay at home wife and mother who has lived all over the United States. She is currently living in northern Indiana with her husband of nearly twenty years, their 15-year-old daughter and two hairballs of the canine variety. She is an avid reader with an insatiable appetite, surpassed only by her child, to whom she has passed on the reader trait. She is a self-taught amateur shutterbug and although she has been writing for the majority of her adult life, she only recently put both words and pictures out there for the world to see.
So many loves
have passed through
my life.
Some of them,
short lived.
A few
blissful hours,
lighthearted
dalliances.
Never really serious,
but memorable,
nonetheless.
Some truly
blazing brightly,
shimmering like
golden sunlight.
But like the
summer days,
doomed to finish
before they
even really began.
Always leaving
lasting marks,
on my heart,
in my mind.
Some were
born of curiosity.
A natural foray
into, as of yet,
unknown pleasures.
Each with their own
unique ending.
Several were
the culmination of
years of longing.
Their ultimate reality
sometimes exceeding
expectations.
Alas,
the mundane,
were more
prevalent.
But the hunt
was just as
satisfying.
Some of them
were a surprise.
An accidental meeting,
leading to
surprisingly
satisfying exchanges.
So many more,
forgotten over time,
merely fillers.
Momentary lapses
during days of
loneliness,
leading to regrets
of wasted time.
Still many more,
the reward
of diligent searching,
and self-restraint.
Holding back
from meaningless
dalliances,
to find that
near perfect
experience,
before the inevitable,
bittersweet,
goodbye.
Still more
that served a purpose.
Taking care
to teach
practical lessons,
in the most
basic of terms.
But the very best,
the sweetest
of all the sweets,
were the lifelong
friendships.
Forged through
overwhelming emotions,
visceral in honesty,
sensual in
experiences,
creating unbreakable bonds
wrapped around
mind and heart.
Those never end.
I am eternally
grateful
for each
and every one
passing through
my fingers.
I will never forget
the way they felt
in my hands.
I can’t
ever
pick just one.
They all are
my favorite,
at some point.
Each one
invaluable,
no matter
the personal cost
to me.
But sadly
I am fickle.
Insatiable.
I will always
continue to search
for more.
Needing that
emotional thrill,
that personal
connection,
that can only
be found
between the covers of
a good book.
©2016 Tracey Howard
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MY SON JOHN
by
Melissa A. Szydlek
Copyright ©February 2017 Melissa A. Szydlek