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    No Matter the Reality
    No Matter the Reality
    No Matter the Reality
    Ebook42 pages36 minutes

    No Matter the Reality

    By Chandra Leigh White

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    A few moments with a stranger at a random stop, a sleeve of photographs, a small moment taken for granted with a loved one. Small objects, small moments, all leading to deeply felt change. This is the hub of "No Matter the Reality."
    This collection of three short stories revolves around the little things. Even though these stories are in the middle of big events, they seek to be small in scale and in time to draw attention to how little things make a big impact.
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChandra Leigh White
    Release dateFeb 18, 2013
    ISBN9781301621484
    No Matter the Reality
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    Chandra Leigh White

    Chandra Leigh White is a working mom with a lot of stories to tell. When she isn't working or writing she's generally playing with her daughter, and hanging out at home with her husband. Originally an online comic writer, she found that she was just in it for the stories. She still does her art as a caricature artist, and once in a while fantasizes about comicking again...but not really anytime soon. She fantasizes about one day making enough off of her work to no longer have to worry about the social networking policy at her job. Oh and get a dog... little girls need dogs.

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    • 4/5
      “No Matter the Reality” is a wonderful set of 4 short stories. Quite a Science Fiction delight. I’ve been to Ireland and the Cliffs of Moher, so the first storybrought back the beauty of that adventure for me.Only 4 stories, you might think? But honestly “Less is sometimes More”I recommend this book highly!
    • 4/5
      I received this book from LibraryThing's member giveaway. I found the stories interesting. The Minute Man reminded me a lot of the movie Looper with a different story. It did make me thing. I really liked Dedication. It was a sweet story about empowerment, motivation and devotion. Overall, I thought the stories in this book were worth reading and enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      This book was given to me free through librarything.com's Member Giveaway program as a promotion for the book. Honest reviews are requested in exchange. And, honestly, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. Let me explain. This is a book of 4 short sci-fi stories. Really short. The entire book is only 34 pages long. It's been quite a while since I've read short stories and I have always liked them but am usually left wanting more...which is why I typically read novels now.The four short stories in this book are titled, Dedication, Brother and Sister, The Minute Man, and Not Here. I liked them but din't love them. One, however, I would like to see made into a novel - Brother and Sister.See my full review on eclecticbooklist.blogspot.com
    • 2/5
      Thanks for the book, which I could not figure out, was it a series of short stories or a novella? I found it disjointed,being unable to find the continuity between "sections- for lack of any chapters" and needed to skip back and forth to try to draw the various threads together. I never was able to bring the whole thing together, which I admit may be due to a lack of grey matter on my part or just that I find this genre perplexing being a simple being at heart. I will put as a private review for the simple reason that I don't want to prejudice future reviews. I will also admit to having been spoiled by virtue of the fact that the previous book I read was by Seth Lindberg whose character detailing, glossaries, illustrated maps and clear chapter by chapter progression leave one with the clear impression of a book that has travelled in a full circle, the beginning and end tying together with a twist in the tail.
    • 4/5
      This book has four really great short stories. The only problem with it is that I could see any of the stories as a full length book. They definitely left me ready to read more!

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    No Matter the Reality - Chandra Leigh White

    No Matter the Reality

    CHANDRA LEIGH WHITE

    Copyright © 2012 Chandra Leigh White

    Smashwords Edition

    All rights reserved.

    The Fell Types are digitally reproduced by Igino Marini. www.iginomarini.com

    No Matter the Reality

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Dedication

    Brother and Sister

    The Minute-Man

    Not Here

    About the Author

    The checkpoint sat on the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland. It was a standard. Every Transatlantic and Circum-nav class race set a checkpoint there because it was so dramatic. There were grey cliffs towering over the grey Atlantic, with an emerald green oasis on top. They were always cloaked in a thin mist from the waves crashing into the cliff walls. Spectacular. The first time Starla Jones landed there the first official she contacted joked that if you happened to fall off you should look to your right, so you could watch the most breathtaking sunset in the western hemisphere during your ninety foot drop to death.

    Looking out into white nothingness Starla pointed her Stingray Glider toward the checkpoint's orange flags. They were nearly imperceptible in the early morning light. At least it would be to all but the Sky Racers in their nuclear gliders. She spotted the little tangerine flicker through the clouds just after sunrise. She would have known it was coming sooner if she didn't insist on flying natural. That is, without the electronic positioners and beacons everyone else used. That was how Zip did it. That was how she did it. To her, doing things like Zip was like using the force. Not that it did her any good. Starla had never placed higher than forty-third in a sky race.

    Better than fifty, her Pops would say every time she came back from a run exhausted and grumpy about her terrible stats.

    Not by much, her Mums would say. Mums didn’t want her daughter involved in suicidal pleasure runs. She didn't just object to flying at ten-thousand feet in a mini nuclear reactor, she had gotten the idea in her head that the check points were just stages for giant pagan orgies or something like that.

    Not when you're forty third place and sleep in your glider, Mums, Starla would joke. Maybe Mums was right, she'd never know it. She had no idea what happened before she got there. When she showed up, all the lights except the little landing strips and the lighted beacons were put up. Forty third place meant you got the last spots in the camp ground, if it even made sense to sleep. Sleeping at forty third place meant you probably missed all the press and the official morning takeoff. Not to mention breakfast. Starla had spent many mornings taking hurried shots of go-juice after only a few hours of sleep just to get a tiny lead on what she had the day before. The whole point of the

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