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    Follow the Signs
    Follow the Signs
    Follow the Signs
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    Follow the Signs

    By Top Writers Block

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    There are signs all around us, written or otherwise. Some are more subtle than others, open to personal interpretation, which could lead one astray. This collection of short stories and poems will give you examples. Perhaps think twice before following the signs?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTop Writers Block
    Release dateMay 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370540945
    Follow the Signs
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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

      Follow the Signs - Top Writers Block

      A Collection of Short Stories

      by

      TOP WRITERS BLOCK

      Written on the theme of:

      FOLLOW THE SIGNS

      Copyright ©April 2017 by each individual author as noted

      Published on Smashwords

      Cover Graphic from Adobe Stock

      ISBN: 9781370540945

      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

      Amazing Day by Barnaby Wilde

      Mercy’s Revenge by Katlyn Guthrie

      Fortune Cookies by Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Judd by Alan Naylor

      Angel With Your Black Wings by Antoine Randolph Watts

      Heads Or Tails by Tracey Howard

      Yard Sale by Melissa A. Szydlek

      AMAZING DAY

      by

      Barnaby Wilde

      Copyright ©October 2013 Barnaby Wilde

      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.

      I feel so damned tired recently. It doesn't seem to matter how long I sleep, I wake up as tired as I was before I closed my eyes. I've been having strange dreams, too.

      Sometimes I dream I'm inside a giant wheel, running and running and getting nowhere except exhausted. Other times I dream I'm lying on a bench with huge masked faces looking down at me while they poke about in my brain. Sometimes these dreams are so real that I don't know if I'm awake or asleep.

      I'm having one of those moments right now.

      I'm looking down a long white corridor. I have no recollection of how I got here. The walls are smooth and glossy white, as is the floor. The corridor stretches away into the distance. It's featureless, apart from shadows at intervals, which suggest that there might be openings, or side branches.

      There is an overpowering smell of formaldehyde or something similar. It's all pervading. I think it's coming from the floor or the walls, or both. There's a wall behind me, with no obvious opening or door. I'm standing at the blind end of a corridor. I wonder how I got in here?

      I listen carefully and I think I can hear equipment humming somewhere. Something electrical. Maybe it's behind the wall. I can hear voices, too, though I can't understand what they might be saying.

      I sniff the wall, experimentally. The smell is definitely coming from there. It's a 'new plastic' sort of smell and I suppose the walls are made of some sort of white plastic. The floor as well. There is a seam between the wall and the floor and here and there a small bead of filler has bulged slightly. Actually, it might be adhesive. I think the floor

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