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    In Your Words
    In Your Words
    In Your Words
    Ebook37 pages31 minutes

    In Your Words

    By R J Samuel

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    A short story (3100 words)
    Amelia is an author who writes about love but has lost her belief in it. She is participating in a book signing week in yet another stop on what seems like an endless tour. When she escapes to a quiet corner of the bookstore Amelia meets the woman who she knows can restore her faith in love, but will she have a chance to find out?

    Also included with this short story are extracts from R J Samuel’s novels FALLING COLOURS (the first in the Vision Painter series) and HEART STOPPER (a medical thriller).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR J Samuel
    Release dateFeb 4, 2013
    ISBN9781301529728
    In Your Words
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    R J Samuel

    Site: www.rjsamuel.com Email: R.J_Samuel@yahoo.com Twitter: @R_J_Samuel Facebook: www.facebook.com/RJSamuelAuthor R J Samuel was born in Nigeria, to Indian parents from Kerala. She grew up in different parts of Nigeria with a brief stint in boarding school in the Nilgiri Hills in India and occasional summers in Kerala, London, and New York. In 1984, she moved to Ireland to complete her medical studies and vividly remembers the shock of arriving at Galway Train Station on an icy October night. Despite that traumatic first meeting, she fell in love with Galway and has remained there since, apart from a 3-year episode in the southwest of France. She is an Irish citizen and now considers herself almost Irish as well as almost Indian. Her first novel, 'Heart Stopper,' was published in February 2012 and her second novel, 'Falling Colours - The Misadventures of a Vision Painter,' in June 2012. Her third novel, Casting Shadows - The Further Misadventures of a Vision Painter, was published in January 2013. Her novels are set in the West of Ireland, in Galway and Connemara, and also in Kerala, India. She has been writing creatively for 6 years, excluding her period in France where she wrote nothing creative, probably because she was running a restaurant\bar despite having a background in Medicine (she is a qualified medical doctor) and IT (she has a Masters in IT) and absolutely no background in restaurants, apart from eating in them. Her story 'Helmets' was shortlisted for the 2011 Over the Edge 'New Writer of the Year Competition' and she was the only entrant to have both her fiction and her poetry long-listed for the Doire Press '1st Annual International Fiction and Poetry Chapbook Competition' in January 2012. Her fiction entry, 'The Vision Painter,' went on to be shortlisted for this competition and was the basis for her second novel, 'Falling Colours - The Misadventures of a Vision Painter.'

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    • 4/5
      Short and sweet and full of longing. I wonder if this is autobiographical? ;)
    • 4/5
      I really loved the way this one was written. The way the writer describes things is beautiful, vivid and emphasizes passion. The story itself is fairly basic. Normally I roll my eyes at love at first sight stories, but I think the descriptions carry enough emotion to make the concept more believable to a cynic like me.While I like happy endings, this is a case where I'm not sure if having one was the right decision. On one hand, its unbelievably cute how it ended and I liked the scene itself. On the other hand, the entire time I was thinking 'no way'. It just wasn't believable, but is that a bad thing? I don't know, I still liked the ending.All in all, a nice story

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    In Your Words - R J Samuel

    In your words

    A Short Story

    By

    R J Samuel

    Including Extracts of FALLING COLOURS and HEART STOPPER

    © RJ Samuel 2013

    Smashwords Edition

    Author’s Note

    This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters, and incidents portrayed in it are fictional and the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or companies is purely coincidental.

    License Statement

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook 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 reader. 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.

    R J Samuel

    Site: http://www.rjsamuel.com

    Email: R.J_Samuel@yahoo.com

    Twitter: @R_J_Samuel

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RJSamuelAuthor

    Books by R J Samuel

    The Vision Painter Series

    FALLING COLOURS – The Misadventures of a Vision Painter is available on Smashwords and other online retailers. (Extract available after the short story)

    CASTING SHADOWS – The Further Misadventures of a Vision Painter is available on Smashwords and other online retailers.

    Medical Thriller

    HEART STOPPER is available on Smashwords and other online retailers. (Extract available at the end of this book)

    Table of Contents

    Author’s Note

    SHORT STORY – In Your Words

    About the Author

    Extract From Falling Colours

    Extract From Heart Stopper

    IN YOUR WORDS

    She was reading my book and the expression on her face suggested she was finding something hard to swallow. I waited by the armchair and considered whether to help or not. I lowered myself onto the plump cushions and decided to wait until she looked up. She could ask me then, if she wanted.

    I felt the drudge of the last few days of travelling seep out into the stuffed depths of the cushions. I closed my eyes. I would talk to her in just a minute, if she wanted.

    I could not keep my eyes closed. I opened them and watched her. Her blue eyes flickered over my words, her face a backdrop to the stark design of feathers on the book cover and to my black and white face in miniature that covered her cheek. She was delicate in the strength of her features, laughter lines that pointed to the ground. She was wearing a masculine shirt in a very feminine way, the

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