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    As The Sun Goes Down
    As The Sun Goes Down
    As The Sun Goes Down
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    As The Sun Goes Down

    By Jay Howard

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    The stories:

    Polly Polo - an elderly car breaks down in bad weather and a phone call to the breakdown service is needed.

    Emily’s Hat - Emily’s husband is promoted and she must prepare for the company executives’ day out at Ascot.

    Simile and Metaphor - a teacher is lacking inspiration for a class assignment until she overhears a conversation in a shoe shop.

    Jackie’s Bike - an adventure goes terribly wrong when Jane ‘borrows’ Jackie’s brand new bike.

    Out the Other Side - Sophie persuades her husband that they should move to Devon, but their son throws a spanner in the works.

    Something About Suzy - an abused Saluki escapes her fate as a brood bitch and discovers what it means to have a home and family.

    Time Out - a teenager volunteers to help the disabled and learns some important life lessons.

    Spirit Passing - it’s time for Mandy to say goodbye to her terminally ill grandmother.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJay Howard
    Release dateMar 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301279739
    As The Sun Goes Down
    Author

    Jay Howard

    Jay currently lives in Somerset, which she considers to be a gem among English counties. She has lived and worked in many places in England, Wales, Alberta and British Columbia. She describes writing as ‘enormously enjoyable and satisfying, but second only to golf in the level of frustration that must be endured to achieve the desired goal’.Novels:Never Too Late (Changes #1)New Beginnings (Changes #2)Short story collections:As The Sun Goes DownSimilar DifferencesEditor and contributor to Of Words and Water 2013 and Of Words and Water 2014 (short story and poetry collections published in support of WaterAid)

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      Book preview

      As The Sun Goes Down - Jay Howard

      As the Sun Goes Down:

      an anthology

      by

      Jay Howard

      Copyright 2013 Jay Howard

      Published on behalf of Saluki Welfare Fund

      Smashwords Edition

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      This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes,

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      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Salukis

      Polly Polo

      Emily's Hat

      Simile and Metaphor

      Jackie's Bike

      Out The Other Side

      Something About Suzy

      Time Out

      Spirit Passing

      Books by Jay Howard

      About Jay Howard

      Foreword

      Thank you for buying this book and, in doing so, assisting the work of the Saluki Welfare Fund. This organisation is staffed entirely by volunteers, who strive to protect and re-home Salukis who fall on hard times. Such selfless endeavours restore my faith in humans. This is my small contribution to their efforts for these amazing sighthounds.

      So, why did I choose this title? It’s as the sun goes down, when the day’s work is done, that I get a chance to write. These stories were written over many years, the inspiration coming from many unexpected sources. A hat in a charity shop led to Emily coming to live in my mind, an overheard conversation gave me as well as teacher Chris the inspiration we needed. Fragments of memories morph into skeletons onto which the tendon and muscle of pure flights of fancy can attach.

      Maybe something in these stories will resonate with your own experiences. Maybe something you see or hear will lead to you writing a story of your own. Allow yourself the time to notice the small things in our lives, the funny, interesting, strange and downright peculiar things, and they will enrich you far more than money.

      The evening is when I get a chance to read. Whenever your few well-earned ‘me-time’ minutes are, I hope you enjoy relaxing with your beverage of choice, dipping into this book to peek into the lives of the people who populate my imagination.

      Jay Howard

      February 2013

      Salukis

      Many years ago it was my privilege and honour to have two rescue Salukis sharing my life. I am not now in a position to give a couple of Salukis a safe place to live. I would dearly love to share my sofa - and my heart - with these very special sighthounds. I would at least like to be able to help fund the care they receive from the dedicated volunteers of the Saluki Welfare Fund. Alas, neither of these options is open to me at this time, but I live in hope.

      In the meantime, I have used such skill as I have to compile this anthology. Every cent, every penny, will be paid over to the SWF. Thank you.

      Here’s a link to their website:

      http://www.salukiwelfare.org.uk/index.shtml

      Polly Polo

      From: Julie

      Sent: Tue 02/12/2005 07:40

      To: Mum and Dad

      CC:

      Subject: It may be p*****g down but I had to laugh

      Hi Mum and Dad

      Had to grab a few minutes to email you before I start work - give you a laugh to start the day. You’ll not be surprised to learn that there is now one more person in the world convinced that your daughter is a total nutter. In fact, this morning I felt quite blonde. OK, I am blonde, but that’s neither here nor there.

      At 6:45, as I left for work, it was still hammering down and most of Chetmere Road was flooded. I drove along the middle of the road, grateful it’s such a quiet rural road, and praying that there wouldn’t be anyone coming the other way. Well, I was lucky – only one car to avoid at a point where it was only a minor wall of water whooshing up the side of Polly Polo. Such an elderly lady really shouldn’t be taken out on a day like this, it’s just not fair on her.

      Anyway, for better or worse we were on our way.

      Other parts of the road were totally flooded and there was no option but to go through them. You’ve guessed it – the inevitable happened and Polly started struggling. She’d been very brave up to that point, gallant even, in her efforts to get me to work, but there is a limit to what you can ask an elderly car to cope with.

      At first it was just fourth gear that didn’t seem to be a very good idea. Then there was a bit of asthmatic wheezing on the hilly bits, a little bit of hesitation… She finally gasped to a halt at the main traffic lights at the bottom of Well Street, but we’re used to that happening (that’s the third time now) and good as gold she restarted. With a few extra revs we got across.

      I’m now on Mount Street at the back of the shopping centre and had to stop for someone to cross at the lights. Oh dear…

      So anyway, I now need my hazard warning lights on while I sort out this little problem of not restarting when I’m stuck at the pedestrian crossing. I know I must have hazard warning lights and I haven’t got many buttons to choose from (two, actually) but it’s still dark and I’ve never had to use them before. I got my torch out to thoroughly check the dash and eventually I located it. What a silly place to put a big button like that, right in the middle of the steering wheel where you’re going to see it every day. I mean, it just becomes part of the furniture, doesn’t it?

      I’m now in a position to find the WD40 and give the fixing part of the plan a whirl. Good, found that. Even better I found the little levery thingy to release the bonnet. Now all

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