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Picture of A Dog's Life
Date Added: March 10, 2012
Word Count: 12,939
When May, an orphan ten-year old girl is living on the streets without any food or water and agrees to pay all of her money to stay at Jane's house, she has a dog named Jack. Jack and her are the best of friends and only have eachother. Will May survive winter with no home, or will she learn what tr...
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Picture of A Liar's Love
Date Added: October 8, 2011
Word Count: 2,897
A mother's love. An angel's offer. Add these two things together and they have the power to create a miracle. Princess Isabelle has been told since birth that she must find the boy she is destined to love or she will die on her eighteenth birthday. Those were after all the terms of her mother's des...
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Picture of A Reasonable Regret
Date Added: April 13, 2012
Word Count: 7930
Popular counsel suggests that regrets are a killer, but Robert still has things to learn and to appreciate from acknowledging the regrets of the excesses and indiscretions of his midlife, not the least of which was using alcohol as a sedative and a comfort, to the harm of many, to his family and to ...
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Picture of A Story in a Hole
Date Added: February 13, 2012
Word Count: 19,421
A young man gets lost in a huge desert and wanders around for three years until he meets an old man named Melek that lives in an underground house. He has forgotten a lot of things from his past life so he is forced to make a new life for himself. He learns a lot of things from Melek and Melek's wif...
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Picture of A Tale of Two Brothers
Date Added: March 27, 2012
Word Count: 2882
Think "The Old Man and the Sea" meets chinese astrology. I wrote this short story to make the reader feel as if it were an ancient legendary allegorical tale.  Hopefully the reader finds it both thoughtful and engaging! Alina Preston alina1@cogeco.ca
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Picture of An Afternoon Can Last Forever, In Provence
Date Added: April 30, 2012
Word Count: 6327
 A man stumbles into a French countryside slice of paradise, and gets to know the woman who lives there, all in one afternoon.
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Picture of An Old Man's Tale
Date Added: January 5, 2012
Word Count: 1,346
Three friends don't believe local legends, and they find out the truth... or did they?
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Picture of Anthology of Faeries
Date Added: September 29, 2011
Word Count: 6034
An anthology of short stories based on old Celtic legends of the Sidhe,Tuatha de Danann, and other fae. From romantic to tragic and gruesome to tales of brave battles, this series of faerie tales intertwines magic with humanity and the sweet seduction of the Otherworld right into your hands! Br...
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Picture of Anthology of Faeries: The Farmer's Daughter
Date Added: September 29, 2011
Word Count: 897
The Farmer's Daughter follows a little farmer girl who has almost nothing. She works hard to take care of herself and her widowed father after the untimely death of her mother. Perhaps there is another means to help, and she sets out to seek help from the most fantastical of sources. A fairytale bas...
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Picture of Anthology of Faeries: The Glowing Marble
Date Added: September 29, 2011
Word Count: 1736
A girl who stumbles upon a marble along the shores of the seaside, curiously keeps it with her at all times. One night, a strange little man appears before her, claiming to have lost his blue marble. Who is this little man who appears to her beside her bedside at night? What is this magic?
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