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    A Hodge Podge
    A Hodge Podge
    A Hodge Podge
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    A Hodge Podge

    By Top Writers Block

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    What does a boat at sea have to do with a frog and a princess? Nothing!
    For your pleasure, Top Writers Block has put together a collection of stories and poems at random. We hope they will encourage you to buy their 2015 collections. As always, all the authors' proceeds go to Sea Shepherd, who protect our oceans and the life within.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTop Writers Block
    Release dateDec 31, 2014
    ISBN9781311189455
    A Hodge Podge
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    Top Writers Block

    Top Writers Block is a diverse and eclectic group of talented writers who decided to write stories together - just for the fun of it! We are happy to announce that authors proceeds have always gone, and will continue to go, to Sea Shepherd.fr every time Smashwords has made a payment! Thank you to those who have supported the group, independent authors, and Sea Shepherd. Our collections are usually written with one theme or genre in mind. Each author contributes when they have the time, so some of the collections have as many as twelve authors participating. Every collection has something new, with stories and poems ranging from romance, drama, and adventure to mystery, fantasy, and horror. All the Top Writers Block's proceeds will go to Sea Shepherd, so by buying you are helping to keep our oceans alive! Thank You all so much!

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      A Hodge Podge - Top Writers Block

      Collection of Short Stories

      by

      Top Writers Block

      on random themes

      A Hodge Podge

      Copyright©Dec. 2014 Top Writers Block

      Published on Smashwords

      ISBN: 978131118945

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      http://suzystewartdubotbooks.weebly.com

      Smashwords License Notes

      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 recipient. 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 and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of these authors.

      Credits Cover Design : Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Table of Contents

      Birthday Gift by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      The Princess and the Frog by Barnaby Wilde

      The Hundredth Day at Sea... by Suzy Stewart Dubot

      A Winter Night’s Dream by Tracey Howard

      Friends by Don Bick

      Life’s End by David H. Keith

      Counseling? I Don’t Need No Stinking Counseling by Bill Rayburn

      Snow White and the Seven Miners by John Muir

      The Winchmore Hill Dog Trainer by Suzy Stewart Dubot

      The Things We Do by the Light of the Bayberry Candle by Melissa A. Szydlek

      Birthday Gift

      by

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      ©2014 Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith is a researcher, writer, and artist who has received multiple awards in all three fields. Along with her collie, Belle, she tends many gardens and trees under the grand sky of the North American Great Plains.

      She is the widow of award-winning author David H. Keith.

      Chatting over a cup of tea with my next door neighbor is a pleasant part of most Saturdays. We both look forward to it. Most often, it is the only chance for either of us to relax and enjoy a conversation.

      During the latest visit, with the holiday season approaching, the conversation turned to gifts. We laughed as my neighbor told me of the time her three-year-old son collected rocks from the garden to give to her one Mother’s Day, and unknowingly included bits of dried cat poop. She assured me she had no trouble showing surprise as she opened her gift.

      No doubt! I laughed with her.

      What’s the strangest gift you ever received? asked my neighbor as I sipped my tea.

      I thought a moment, and then said That might be a camouflage machete scabbard.

      Oh, you’re kidding, she replied.

      No, it was a birthday gift. It came from my husband, at the time. We were separated and he had been trying all sorts of things to convince me to call off the divorce. Remembering my birthday was one of them. He came to the door with this unwrapped, folded piece of camouflage nylon in his hand. I said, ‘What’s this?’ He said, ‘It’s your birthday present.’ I said, ‘What is it?’ He said, ‘It’s a scabbard for a machete.’ I said, ‘I don’t own a machete.’ He said, ‘I do.’ And then he waited. So I handed him the scabbard and said, ‘Here, then.’ He said, ‘Thank you.’ And then he left. That was my birthday.

      My neighbor sat speechless.

      The story gets better, I said. Not long after that, when the divorce was final, the neighbors across the street told me they had seen him pick the scabbard out of their trash.

      What’s the best gift he ever gave you? asked my neighbor.

      I smiled. This story.

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      An English writer of quirky verse, short stories, detective fiction and novels with a sense of the ridiculous, now retired from a career in manufacturing and living in the South West of England.

      The Princess and the Frog

      by

      Barnaby Wilde

      Once upon a time, in a land not far from here, there lived a princess. She was beautiful, but she was poor. For she was the youngest daughter of ten, and the king could not afford to keep her.

      Luckily she was a clever girl, and practical with her hands. She would take precious metals and jewels and fashion them into trinkets and artefacts for wealthy Lords and Ladies.

      Sometimes she would try to pass on some of her skills to local artisans, but this was an uphill struggle and did not pay well.

      Now, a frog lived in the same land as the princess, and one day he crept into her workshop. When he saw the princess he fell instantly in love with her. He admired her sleek and shiny hair and her skill with a hammer.

      The frog was poor too, but not financially, because he owned property in frog land. The frog was poor in spirit. He needed to be loved. He knew there was enough love in his heart to satisfy a princess and he longed to be able to prove it.

      The frog decided that he would marry the princess, but the princess was constantly surrounded by other suitors. She scarcely noticed him.

      Week after week the frog would creep into her workshop. Sometimes he would bring the princess little presents. She would smile at him, and his little froggy heart would beat wildly in his little froggy chest, and he would go home and dream about her all night long.

      Sometimes the frog would try to copy the princess and make trinkets of his own. When the princess saw them she would praise him and his froggy heart would swell until he thought it would burst.

      He longed to kiss her, but he was very shy. Besides which, whilst it might be alright for a princess to kiss a frog, it would never do for a frog to kiss a princess without being asked. But the frog had a secret. He knew that he was the nicest frog he knew, and that one day the princess would think so too.

      Meanwhile the frog would take a shower and wash under his armpits at least once a week, whether he needed to or not, and hop into the back of the princess's workshop.

      One day, when the little frog was feeling particularly brave, he sent a note to the princess in his best froggy handwriting inviting her to the pub.

      *****

      She stood in one corner of the room, half perched on the workbench which ran along one wall. In her hand she clutched the folded white note she had been given a half hour previously. For the moment her pupils were occupied, and she dared to glance again at the message she was holding.

      She looked across the

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