Burning Heart

By Walter Morales

Burning Heart is a short story about the courage and braveness of Lina, an eighteen-years-old girl whose dream is to become a firefighter. Besides the normal complications of the process to become a firefighter, Lina will also have to fight against the Osteosarcoma in her heel, and face her father's opposition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Walter Morales
• Release date: May 31, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310454851

Walter Morales

Walter is a Guatemalan writer living in Virginia. He spent over five years working with youths and teenagers in Guatemala. Apart from his work as a teacher and counselor, he wrote many articles, plays, and short stories for youth audiences.Now he is completing his last year of the Creative Writing Bachelor’s degree at Full Sail University.

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Burning Heart

By Walter Morales

Published by Walter Morales

3rd Edition

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Copyright © Walter Morales, 2014

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All characters appearing in this work are fictitious, and product of the writer’s imagination. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Contents

Chapter 1: The Fire Chief

Chapter 2: The Best Friend

Chapter 3: The Doctor

Chapter 4: Lina

Chapter 5: Dad

Chapter 6: The Doctor

Chapter 7: Mom

Chapter 8: Lina

Chapter 9: Miss Hernandez

About the author

The Fire Chief

My name is Robert O’Neal and I’m the chief of the City’s Fire Training Bureau. I remember when I first met Lina. I remember her because all of the candidates had to be within the premises at ten o’clock because the written exam started at half past ten, but she was there at half past eight. I approached her and said, punctuality is a good start, miss.

Good morning officer… sorry, I mean firefighter… or fireman... she said, she was nervous.

It’s ok, you can just call me Robert, call me chief once we hire you. What’s your name?

I’m Lina Meyers, sir, sorry, I mean Robert.

Why are you so nervous?

Because I didn’t study, well, actually I didn’t know what to study.

I explained to her how the written exam works, and that nobody knows what to study until the very day of the exam. There is no way to know. We give the candidates a booklet with the content when they show up for the test. She calmed down a little bit. Since it was early we had a little conversation and she told me about her friends, about her dream to become a