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    Charmed

    By Top Writers Block

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    Prince Charming and the charm of small town's...charms that we feel protect us and charms that we think bring bad luck. In the latest Top Writers Block collection, you will find a collection of short fiction and poetry sure to charm your creative side. The collection includes a special piece from David H. Keith, published with the kind permission of his widow, Elizabeth Rowan Keith, who also has a story in the collection. The collection is rounded out with contributions by Cleve Sylcox, Tracey Howard, Suzy Stewart Dubot, and Melissa A. Szydlek

    Your purchase of this ebook not only supports the creative outlets of independent authors, but also supports charity. Top Writers Block is an international group of writers who continue to donate ALL of their proceeds to Sea Shepherd in France, an organization that devotes itself to preserving our seas and oceans and the life within. The authors' donate their proceeds to charity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTop Writers Block
    Release dateJan 10, 2016
    ISBN9781311183071
    Charmed
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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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      Book preview

      Charmed - Top Writers Block

      A Collection of Short Stories

      by

      TOP WRITERS BLOCK

      Written on the theme:

      Charmed

      Copyright ©December 2015 by each individual author as noted

      Published on Smashwords

      ISBN: 9781311183071

      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.

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      A Warrior’s Journey by David H. Keith

      Grandmother Speaks by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Charming Murder by Cleve Sylcox

      Grandpa’s Charm by Tracey Howard

      United We Stand by Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Gozu by Melissa A. Szydlek

      A WARRIOR’S JOURNEY

      by

      David H. Keith

      Copyright ©2012 David H. Keith

      Published with the kind permission of his widow, Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Dave was an unrepentant Hippie nature child who firmly believed in such outdated concepts as peace, love, sustaining our Earth, and Freedom, including the inviolable right of the First Amendment. He worked as a writer, editor, and medical professional. He had been a newspaper reporter, photographer, Army combat medic, paramedic, and teacher. Two phenomenal women filled his life: his beautiful wife, Elizabeth, and their dog, Belle.

      He journeyed on into the approaching dark,

      Footsore from endless miles, head drooping from weariness,

      aware only of the loneliness within.

      Matted, dirty hair hung dankly—

      too lost was he within sorrow’s prison

      to care about outward things…

      Things of no meaning.

      For many days he had wandered thus.

      Ever searching.

      Finding nothing.

      A soft whimper escaped his lips—

      the only outward sign of his tortured soul

      the Warrior would permit.

      Thoughts of clan and tribe now entered

      the Warrior’s mind

      as he stumbled onward toward the encroaching night.

      Lost in time and endless trek

      were his People.

      Now, only golden lupine eyes led him on.

      Eyes he’d once looked into

      and became lost.

      Magickal eyes, which ensnared his heart

      with velvet chains that could not be broken.

      Eyes of deepest knowledge, of purest love…

      lupine eyes.

      ‘Twas those eyes he now sought

      with such devotion, such lonely diligence.

      To lose himself once more in their timeless depth

      his only quest.

      Too weary, now, to continue this day,

      he slowly scratched out a bed.

      Circling slowly, head bowed,

      he at last lay down.

      Now he could give voice to his sorrow—

      he howled his anguish into the uncaring night.

      His sorrow. His aching loneliness

      for lupine eyes.

      At last, he looked around once more—

      ensuring no danger lurked.

      Then, assured, he curled his body around dreams

      where, once again, he lived

      the day of unbounded wonder

      when into her eyes he first looked

      and became ensnared in lupine eyes.

      Once again, he felt the soft tickle of her hair

      as she pressed close against him.

      Once more smelled her scent, heard her song.

      Reaching out in his troubled sleep, he felt her caress.

      Earth wheeled in its eternal path

      and sunlight once more burned his eyelids,

      his dreams scattering like frightened geese—

      hurrying to hide in subconscious shadow.

      Reluctantly, he chased the dreams away,

      yawned, and felt the keen edge of his loneliness

      begin anew—honed afresh by his slumber.

      Spurred by sorrow, goaded by unspoken urge

      to continue his empty journey,

      he opened his eyes

      and again felt himself captured

      by soft, beauteous, loving lupine eyes.

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      GRANDMOTHER SPEAKS

      by

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Copyright ©January 2016 Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith is a researcher, writer, photography, and artist who has received multiple awards in all four 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.

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