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    Scarlet Leaf Review (Anthologies, #1): Awards
    Scarlet Leaf Review (Anthologies, #1): Awards
    Scarlet Leaf Review (Anthologies, #1): Awards
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    Scarlet Leaf Review (Anthologies, #1): Awards

    By Roxana Nastase and Roxana Nastase - Editor

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    Three awarded short-stories for 2016: a short-story full of suspense and thrilling events showing how to murder someone, pinning the kill on someone else; a quasi-biographical short-story revealing embarrassing moments in a woman's life and her decision to take her life back (better later than never); the revelation of a quirks in the life of the inhabitants of a building that is about to be sold, the owner not knowing what he'd bring upon himself, had he sold the building. Enjoy mathematical planning, humor and good writing!
    Our very first collection of award winning essays submitted by authors like you. Learn about the struggles of being a girl in a massively-multiplayer online game, about how to build a computer (or not) or about how to properly budget your life (or not). Humor, triumphs and defeats all to be found in this winning collection.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoxana Nastase
    Release dateNov 28, 2017
    ISBN9780995195387
    Scarlet Leaf Review (Anthologies, #1): Awards
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    Roxana Nastase

    Roxana Nastase has been teaching English for over seventeen years, ranging in level from kindergarten to college. She specializes in English Grammar and has had several books issued throughout the years. Her books were used with much success in schools in Eastern Europe for teaching English as a second language.

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      Scarlet Leaf Review (Anthologies, #1) - Roxana Nastase

      CUTS

      SHORT-STORY AWARD

      FIRST PRIZE

      THE SHADOW

      BY LUCIAN ARTHUR

      THAT MORNING, HE WOKE up with a sharp gasp and an idea stuck in his mind. He rubbed his eyes with hairy, thick knuckles – a woman once had told him that they seemed to belong to an ape. Then, he just relaxed. 

      Yeah, why the hell not? It was a good idea, actually, a great idea, after all. He’d strike two flies with the same blow. 

      The move was smart and long overdue. He’d been thinking a lot about doing something but he was smart enough not to put his neck into the noose. His burning wish was for revenge not suicide. 

      Energized, he jumped out of bed and went into the small bathroom. Everything around him was skimpy. He had downsized everything since that   fatidic   morning.   Had   he downsized more, he’d have vanished completely. 

      Huh, living off the grid had his perks.  No one could trace his moves, and, more than that, no one really knew if he existed. Or to be accurate, no one knew if he still existed anymore.

      He started shaving, driving the blade closely to the skin, careful not to leave marks on his face. People remembered a goatee, a shaved skull with a tattoo at the back, and now he managed to move around without shaking any memories loose. No one had seen him like that since he enlisted ten years ago. 

      He looked at himself in the mirror, and for the first time in the last four months, he could look at himself, into his eyes, without shame or guilt. He finally had a plan. 

      She had died in that dirty alley, behind the smelly dumpster, rain slapping her face furiously, wind playing with the hair splattered with blood, her lifeless eyes staring at the overcast sky. And while she was dying, crying and probably begging for mercy or help, he was drinking his mind in a bar not far away. 

      He’d thought he’d have time to reconnect with her and to do all the things he’d put on hold for ten years. He’d thought he deserved a night with friends he’d not seen for too long to dwell on the years that had already passed and to get shitfaced like a stupid teenager in a feat of rebellion. 

      Choices! In the end, all that was, it was choices. Or mistakes. Or fate. Or the hell knows what. The bottom line was that she had died there because he’d been too bent on drinking beer and boasting like a stupid teenager with the eye only on the moment not on the bigger picture. He had to pay a price in the end but not before the actual killers would pay theirs. 

      HE ALREADY KNEW THE woman’s schedule. She’d sleep all morning, getting up somewhere after noon, with a raging hangover and pissed off that life would deal her some shitty cards. Then, she would yell a bit at the kids playing in the yard across the street, their yelling cutting like a blade through her numb brain. Then she would start prowling the streets, looking for the next dude able to

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