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    Speak Courage
    Speak Courage
    Speak Courage
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    Speak Courage

    By Chrissy Wissler

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    Hard-working video game designer, Trish, watches as the conference room fills. Her male colleagues with their collars yanked high and hair slicked back. The few women with stars and dreams in their eyes, no idea at all the challenges working in a male-dominated industry.

    Including the man in the front row, with his unnerving gaze, staring her down.

    Everyone waits for Trish to speak...

    If she finds her voice.

    A love story that starts with an argument and ends with a possible future. "Speak Courage," another story in the uplifting, heartwarming Romance Video Game series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlue Cedar Publishing
    Release dateMar 16, 2019
    ISBN9780463443835
    Speak Courage
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    Chrissy Wissler

    Chrissy’s short fiction has appeared in the anthologies: Fiction River: Risk-Takers, Fiction River Presents: Legacies, Fiction River Presents: Readers' Choice, Deep Magic, and When Dreams Come True (writing as Christen Anne Kelley). She writes fantasy and science fiction, as well as a softball, contemporary series for both romance and young adult (Little League Series and Home Run). Before turning to fiction, Chrissy also wrote many nonfiction articles for publications such as Montana Outdoors, Women in the Outdoors, and Jakes Magazine. In 2009, Inside Kung Fu magazine awarded her with their ‘Writer of the Year’ award. Follow her blog on being a parent-writer at Parents and Prose.

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      Book preview

      Speak Courage - Chrissy Wissler

      Speak Courage

      Speak Courage

      A Romance Video Game Story

      Chrissy Wissler

      Blue Cedar Publishing

      Contents

      Speak Courage

      Open your Heart. Make a Wish.

      Also by Chrissy Wissler

      Sneak Peak: Second Chance

      About the Author

      Speak Courage

      Trish shifted in the metal, barely cushioned chair and did her best to look anywhere but at the 50+ conference-goers who sauntered through the open double doors. Men and women, all young, all either barely out of college or high school, wandered into unclaimed seats with stars and dreams in their eyes. Most of those young women probably dreamed of being where she was, sitting up here, a coveted position in a male-dominated industry.

      And then, there were the others. The men. The guys who worked in the video game industry. She could spot them a mile away. Shirt-collars yanked high, hair slicked back with enough gel cigarette smoke could light it on fire. And if they didn’t tout the hipster look with thick glasses then they were slumming it big time in sagging jeans and their favorite game or character T-shirts.

      Oh, yes. She held quite a coveted position. Now only if she could be in said-coveted position without actually sitting on a mile-high podium with all these people staring up at her.

      Dear God, how many more were coming?

      It had to be some April Fool’s joke. All these people couldn’t possibly care enough to listen to what she had to say, to what the women on this panel had to say. In fact, she bet half the room would stand up the moment the lights dimmed, or worse, right when the moderator was shoving a question in her face.

      Trish pulled at her clingy, pink blouse and loosened the neckline though it didn’t actually do a whole bunch. But it made her feel better.

      Sort of.

      Still, it wasn’t easy ignoring the continuing stream of attendees. Trish swallowed, but her already parched mouth did little to ease her. She shouldn’t be here. Should have told Nick no thanks. Find another girl.

      Yeah, right. Look how well that’d worked the last time.

      Okay. No counting just how many people filled the seats. That was the last thing she needed to calm herself.

      Perhaps staring at her water glass would help? Or maybe talking to the silent, buff Gertie…

      Trish glanced at the woman, whose two giant arms poked out of ripped sleeves from her T-shirt. Gertie gave her a sideways look.

      It’s, umm, good to see you again. Trish attempted a smile and kept her voice low

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