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    Requieted/Unrequieted Love
    Requieted/Unrequieted Love
    Requieted/Unrequieted Love
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    Requieted/Unrequieted Love

    By Top Writers Block

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    Love heals, it energizes, it fulfills. But it also hurts. Sometimes it is requieted, sometimes not. In this collection of short fiction and poems, it's all about what is and what isn't reciprocated. Top Writers Block authors David H. Keith, Elizabeth Rowan Keith, Suzy Stewart Doubt, Alan Naylor, Phil Gerstner and Melissa A. Szydlek spin tales about things that are requited and unrequited.

    Your purchase of this ebook not only helps promote the work of talented independent authors, it supports charity as well. Top Writers Block is an international group of writers who continue to donate all of their author proceeds to Sea Shepherd in France, an organization which devotes itself to preserving our seas and oceans and the life within.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTop Writers Block
    Release dateMar 11, 2018
    ISBN9781370378364
    Requieted/Unrequieted Love
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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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      Requieted/Unrequieted Love - Top Writers Block

      A Collection of Short Stories

      by

      TOP WRITERS BLOCK

      Written on the theme of:

      REQUITED/UNREQUITED LOVE

      Copyright ©February 2018 by each individual author as noted

      Published on Smashwords

      Cover Photo by Nicholas P. Szydlek, Jr.

      ISBN: 9781370378364

      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

      Love of My Life by David H. Keith

      Loves and Lifetimes by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Time is of the Essence by Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Three Poems: Clem/Brenda/"Beulah" by Alan Naylor

      Unrequited by Melissa A. Szydlek

      Love Poems by David H. Keith

      Who Knows If This Is Love by Phil Gerstner

      LOVE OF MY LIFE

      by

      David H. Keith

      1948 - 2014

      Copyright ©2012 David H. Keith

      David H. Keith was an early and steady contributor to Top Writers Block(TWB) since the second publication in 2011. He regarded himself as an unrepentant Hippie Child of the Earth, and a firm believer in social justice, inherent freedoms, and equality and opportunity for all. He passionately believed in love, peace, and laughter. Beginning a medic during the Vietnam War, he later served the public as a paramedic and as a care provider at an intensive care unit at a veterans’ hospital. His fiction, poetry, journalism, photography, and editing all received awards. His work sometimes still appears in TWB collections, submitted by his wife, author Elizabeth Rowan Keith.

      The road loses itself

      in darkness beyond

      my headlights.

      Ahead, unknown.

      Behind, forgotten.

      Left and right,

      pinpricks of lights

      pierce night’s fabric—

      thoughts half-remembered.

      Wind whisper-shouts against windshield—

      companion to engine’s hum

      and eternal scrape of tires against pavement.

      Ahead now

      an oncoming vehicle—

      its headlights an intrusion

      into my solitude.

      Headlight glow

      weds to mine—

      an explosion of mingled passion.

      Spectral lovers soon parted.

      Part of my mind

      remains always on the road alert for danger

      But the greater part

      is rolled back into itself—

      into thoughts,

      into memories.

      The road goes on

      leading nowhere—

      leading somewhere.

      The night is a lover

      protecting me from the glaring eyes of others.

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      LOVES AND LIFETIMES

      by

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Copyright ©February 2018 Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith is a researcher, writer, photographer, and artist who has received multiple awards in all four fields. When she isn't writing, she works as a shamanic healer.  She lives among the cities and lakes of Minnesota, where new adventures are unfolding. She is the widow of award-winning author and photographer David H. Keith.

      Morning light barely touched the sky above the trees when Rosemary took corn

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