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What's hidden in your life? Secrets...emotions...yourself? In the newest collection from Top Writers Block authors Bill Rayburn, Melissa A. Szydlek, Elizabeth Rowan Keith, Alan Naylor, and Suzy Stewart Dubot give you a selection of short fiction and poetry sure to tap into something hidden with you.
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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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Hidden - Top Writers Block
A Collection of Short Stories
by
TOP WRITERS BLOCK
Written on the theme of:
HIDDEN
Copyright ©July 2017 by each individual author as noted
Published on Smashwords
Cover Photograph by Nicholas P. Szydlek, Jr.
ISBN: 9781370322770
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.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEATH BED by Bill Rayburn
ONE HIDE AND SEEK by Melissa A. Szydlek
KARIE by Alan Naylor
LA CONCIERGE by Suzy Stewart Dubot
BETH SPEAKS by Elizabeth Rowan Ketih
EDWARD by Alan Naylor
THE DEAD DON’T TELL by Suzy Stewart Dubot
DEATH BED
by
Bill Rayburn
Copyright ©2012 Bill Rayburn
I am a native Californian, now moved to London. I was born in 1960 in the San Francisco Bay Area, have lived on the east coast (northern New Jersey), and now have crossed the pond to ply my wares in the old country. I am currently marketing a collection of my fictional short stories, while working on a 'memoIRISH novel' (does that phrase even exist?). Open to suggestions, critique, etc.
Jackson Jackson had had a good day. He and his wife had been to a barbecue at his best friend Big Lou Casey’s ranch up in Hickory Ridge, a huge spread off of Route 49. They were all having a good time, drinking iced Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, watching the steaks sizzle on the two large grills Big Lou had set out in the yard, and engaging in a good-natured horse shoe contest.
Then Big Lou’s wife Thelma had come trotting out of the house, one hand holding her bonnet to her head, the other gingerly grasping her throat. Her announcement that the president had been shot effectively ended the party as people wandered away to their cars and trucks, stunned.
Jackson had grabbed a couple of beers and loaded his wife into the truck and headed toward home, which was the little town of Fargo, about five miles north of the junction at Interstate 40. He didn’t really give a damn about Kennedy. He hadn’t voted for the SOB, but then again, he’d never voted for anybody. Politics was for other folks.
Betty sat next to her husband, staring out the window. She was a pretty woman