Drowning

By Barbara Scott Emmett

Four Short Stories, including two prizewinning stories - Our Little Secret and Not Raving but Drowning. Also includes At a Cinema Near You and Know What I Mean?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pentalpha Publishing Edinburgh
• Release date: May 18, 2011
• ISBN: 9781476330310

Barbara Scott Emmett

Barbara Scott Emmett has been writing for a number of years. She has had several short stories and one novel published traditionally and several ebooks published by digital publishers Pentalpha Publishing Edinburgh.Please leave a review of any book you read - we do like to know what readers think.

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DROWNING

Four Short Stories

By

BARBARA SCOTT EMMETT

DROWNING

Barbara Scott Emmett

Electronic Edition published by Pentalpha Publishing Edinburgh publishing at Smashwords

Copyright 2011 Barbara Scott-Emmett

The author asserts the moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work. All Rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the author, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Cover image credit: macchia / 123RF Stock Photo

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NOT RAVING BUT DROWNING won first prize in Writers’ Forum Short Story competition August 2003

OUR LITTLE SECRET won second prize in Writers’ Forum Short Story competition September 2003

AT A CINEMA NEAR YOU was first published in Great Short Stories by YouWriteOn.com Writers 2008

KNOW WHAT I MEAN? is previously unpublished.

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Other Works by Barbara Scott Emmett:

The Land Beyond Goodbye - a novel set in Australia

Available from Smashwords and other online stores.

Don’t Look Down - a crime mystery set in Germany

Available from Smashwords and other online stores.

Delirium – the Rimbaud Delusion – a novel

Available shortly

The Man with the Horn - a novel set in London

Available from Smashwords and other online stores soon.

Wasps & Scorpions - a book of quirky poetry

Available from Smashwords and other online stores.

As Barbie Scott:

The Stiletto Heel and Other Stories – Erotica

Dinner with Daniela and Other Stories - Erotica

Available from Smashwords and other online stores.

For more details and links to all books as they become available

visit my webpage, blog, or Facebook fanpage.

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Contents

OUR LITTLE SECRET

A woman looks back on the last

days of her childhood.

NOT RAVING BUT DROWNING

A man’s life flashes before his eyes.

KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

A young man reflects on his relationship.

AT A CINEMA NEAR YOU

Perversion triumphs over innocence in the

days when women were disbelieved.

THE LAND BEYOND GOODBYE

Excerpt from Novel set in Australia.

OUR LITTLE SECRET

The day the Sandersons went home, my little sister, Maisie, and I wandered down to the shore to watch the waves break against the rocks at Peak’s Point. Neither of us said much, though we both knew an important time in our lives had come and gone. And how quickly it had gone. One day we were all playing happily together on the sand, tossing a ball back and forward, screeching louder than the gulls when the cold sea splashed us. And the next, here we were, two listless girls, aimless and sad without knowing how to voice that sadness. It felt like summer was over, though it was only late July and the warm honeyed days had not yet taken on the first chill of autumn.

Maisie ran ahead and I knew she was trying to bring the fun back into the day. But I was stubborn as