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    Love Steps Up Again
    Love Steps Up Again
    Love Steps Up Again
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    Love Steps Up Again

    By Terri Darling

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    Another collection of sweet romantic shorts by Terri Darling, as love steps up in a job interview, on vacation, in a car accident, in a marriage, and in what you thought was a simple friendship. Contains “The Interview,” “The Swimsuit Shop 2,” “The Accident,” “Breaking the Silence,” and “How Shana Finally Found Love.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFiero Publishing
    Release dateJun 13, 2012
    ISBN9781476184739
    Love Steps Up Again
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    Terri Darling

    Terri Darling is a passionate romantic who swings from sweet romance to pulse-pounding romantic suspense. Risking your heart or risking your life - the stakes are always high. The journey's always worth it.

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      Book preview

      Love Steps Up Again - Terri Darling

      NOVELS BY TERRI DARLING

      Downhill Rush

      What a Man Wants

      Second Chances

      Last One to Hide

      SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS BY TERRI DARLING

      Love Sneaks In: 5 tales of sweet romance

      Love Sneaks In Again: 5 more tales of sweet romance

      Love Snuck: 10 tales of sweet romance

      Love Steps Up: 5 tales of sweet romance:

      Love Steps Up Again: 5 more tales of sweet romance

      LOVE STEPS UP AGAIN

      Terri Darling

      Copyright © 2012 by Terri Darling

      Published by Fiero Publishing

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Author Foreword

      The Interview

      The Swimsuit Shop 2

      The Accident

      Breaking the Silence

      How Shana Finally Found True Love

      Afterword

      Author Foreword

      Back again! My these short stories just add up, don’t they? Practically write themselves.

      They are fun to share, though. It’s pretty hard to get too much of romance and happy endings. The form that such tales take, though, can vary considerably from pretty angsty or full of action and suspense, to simple sincerity, to quirky romantic comedy.

      My novels tend to be filled with the angst and romantic suspense (check out the sample from my most recent one, Last One to Hide) while my shorts are usually sweet, of the sincere or funny variety. This collection of five stories is about half and half of the sincere vs. funny. Why? Because, well sometimes romance is just dead-on the most important thing happening in our life and we take it pretty darn seriously.

      And sometimes it might be equally important but it’s also, well, kind of funny. You know, like when you’re in the kind of mood that trying to nail in a picture-hanger and banging your fingers not once but three or four times actually makes you laugh? Love and attraction makes us do equally crazy things sometimes.

      Believe me. I’ve been there.

      The challenge in this collection will be to see if you can recognize which stories are meant to be funny and which ones are just sincere. Fine line, sometimes. Ever watch a dead serious movie with your best wise-cracking friends? Or try to watch a comedy when you’re so depressed you’re eating ice cream with a big spoon, straight from the big carton it came in?

      Hopefully the experience of reading this collection won’t be like that. Hm. Maybe you should make this your bathroom reading collection. One short story at time versus gobbling a few in a row.

      Anyway, cross-breeding emotions aside, here’s what we have in this collection:

      The Interview – This story situation was inspired by too many of my good friends who got hit hard by the recession of what? 2008-2011? Never fun losing a job and looking for work. But maybe, my ever-hopeful imagination piped up, it could be the best experience ever, where you find more in your search than you ever bargained for!

      The Swimsuit Shop 2 – My short romances tend to be pretty short. I know that. Came out of a history of writing for Woman’s World. And if you still get that key emotional turning point, I think it’s still worth it. But with my story The Swimsuit Shop, I got enough readers asking for a little something more that I finally broke down and imagined the most likely next issue my two characters were likely to work through together. Which was kind of fun. If I ever get up The Swimsuit Shop 8, I’ll turn it into a novel already.

      The Accident – Okay, this one just kind of slipped out of my brain one day when I wasn’t looking. What can I say? It probably says something deep and profound about my psyche, but I’m not sure I want to know that that is.

      Breaking the Silence – I heard a man recount something like this that happened to him and it took hold in my brain somewhere, only to emerge years later as an imagined, but important, incident in a marriage.

      How Shana Finally Found True Love – I think this was originally called something like When You Finally Give Up, because I wanted to explore the idea of only being able to find what you’re searching for when you finally stop looking. But, along with the fact that putting the words Give Up in your title sounded really depressing, the story morphed in other ways when I actually wrote it. And Shana’s in marketing, after all. Badda-bing, badda-boom. Sell, sell, sell. If she can do it, you can do it. Etc. Except that love never works quite like that, does it?

      Ultimately, I find it fun and heartwarming to make love step up for people all over the place, in different ways, whether they’re ready for it or not. Enjoy the many-splendored show.

      -Terri Darling

      June 139, 2012

      This was so not part of the plan.

      The Interview

      Terri Darling

      Copyright © 2011 Terri Darling

      So, Jannie whispered with a nervous laugh to the applicant sitting beside her, "do you think they’re only looking for people with a lot of office experience? Or do you think it’s mostly your skills? Like the programs you know, how fast you can type, whether you can speak English and know how to eat a hot dog without spilling mustard onto your blouse? Not that you have any food stains on your blouse. I spilled mustard on mine. Luckily

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