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    Open Your Heart to Chance: a Golden collection
    Open Your Heart to Chance: a Golden collection
    Open Your Heart to Chance: a Golden collection
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    Open Your Heart to Chance: a Golden collection

    By Devon Winterson

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    This collection is free, but readers have the option to visit my "Open Your Heart to Chance" page at Imagination Ether Press and donate a dollar to help support the Yankee Golden Retriever Rescue foundation.

    All proceeds generated by this particular collection WILL be donated to YGRR.

    PDF version is available at Goodreads.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDevon Winterson
    Release dateJul 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301518357
    Open Your Heart to Chance: a Golden collection
    Author

    Devon Winterson

    Kimberly Grenfell (a.k.a. Devon Winterson) has been an avid reader of fantasy books since childhood, and has studied creative writing and editing both on her own and through college and independent classes. Since 2008, she has been a line editor, a contributing editor, and an art director for Writer's Beat Quarterly, a free online magazine for The Writer's Beat writing community. Kimberly has contributed several articles to this e-zine under the regular features "New Writer on the Beat" and "Mechanical Snippets" to help novice writers understand and master the craft of writing and its mechanics. She has also served as an acquisitions editor and line editor at a small publishing company for two years. Currently, Kimberly has a collection of five full-length novels (in progress) and one novella (also in progress) based in the fictional world of Caendoria, as well as a humorous middle grade novel co-written and co-edited with her son (yes, in progress, as well), and a handful of free "penny fiction" pieces soon available for download on Smashwords - all creations through which she has been able to apply what she's learned in her various studies.

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      Open Your Heart to Chance - Devon Winterson

      OPEN YOUR HEART TO CHANCE:

      A GOLDEN COLLECTION

      by Devon Winterson

      OPEN YOUR HEART TO CHANCE

      a short story

      COURAGE OF A GOLDEN HEART

      a dedication to a beloved golden lost to cancer

      PLAY PEEKABOO WITH ME

      a golden essay, written in 2010

      TWENTY-POUND MISCREANT

      a micro-story

      Published in the United States

      by Imagination Ether Press

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright Kimberly Grenfell - 2013

      writing as Devon Winterson

      Cover

      Thor Over the Grass 06

      original photo by Gonzalo Garcia Jaubert

      used with gracious permission - Thank you!

      Flickr Photo Sharing

      Creative Commons License, Attribution 2.0

      http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode

      Cover Design

      Kimberly Grenfell

      OPEN YOUR HEART TO CHANCE, COURAGE OF A GOLDEN HEART, and TWENTY-POUND MISCREANT are all works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons — living or dead — and any events or locals used is entirely coincidental.

      OPEN YOUR HEART TO CHANCE was previously published in Shadow Fiction online magazine

      With the exception of excerpts for review purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced or copied in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or otherwise transmitted without the express permission from the publisher.

      OPEN YOUR HEART TO CHANCE

      The urn sat heavy in Kerri’s hands.

      Gone. My beautiful golden, gone. Forever. . . .

      I’m sorry.

      Kerri acknowledged the words with a nod, still numb to recent events.

      Losing a pet is hard, the vet receptionist said, especially one so close to you. But Bailey — her tone lightened at his name — Bailey was a fighter.

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