Ashtrays to Jawbreakers: Christmas Edition

By June Project

These stories run the gamut of emotions and genres, from outright horror to more subtle drama. With a recurring theme of Christmas, they present a multi-faceted viewpoint on the writer's take on the festive season.
Once again, we stand before you to offer our work for your pleasure. The stories contained in this volume, as in the others, have been written for you to read. They may at turns excite you, terrify you or make you think; that is our goal as writers. In keeping with the season, we are pleased to present new author Lorraine Carey in this volume.

• Language: English
• Publisher: June Project
• Release date: Nov 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310098383

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Ashtrays to Jawbreakers

A compilation:

Christmas Edition

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Names characters places and incidents are a product of the authors imagination are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual events locals or persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

Copyrighted November 2014

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Table of contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Snow Day by Aaron R Roberts

On the First Day of Christmas by Viv Drewa

Snow by Neil McGowan

Stella by Vive Drewa

The Mysterious Seahorse Ornament by Lorraine Carey

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank you, the readers who make this project possible. It is the ability to shape words into unfamiliar shapes that separates fiction from non-fiction. We hope you have enjoyed reading these stories as much as we enjoyed creating them during this first year of Ashtrays to Jawbreakers.

The authors associated with June Project have come together to provide a functional space where writers can feel welcomed and fear-free in making their work available to a wider audience Recognition is what every writer strives for. Our community aims to give readers a fresh approach to familiar writing. If we can touch, move or make you think, we have been successful

All rights reserved: Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. No part of this publication may be reproduced distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system; without prior written permission of the author. This is a work of fiction.

Names characters places and incidents are a product of the authors imagination are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual events locals or persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

Foreword

In a perfect world, all the writers would get a fair break; judged on talent and not how big their wallet is. This is an attempt to give a few authors their just reward for being stubborn and not giving up.

Writing is something a writer needs to do. It's not optional, it's like breathing. If we don't write every day, even if it's just a few words, we don't sleep due to the characters in our head demanding that their stories are told. When we get it right then the feeling is the greatest high on the planet.

Some authors say that their work is no good, that it lacks the certain je ne sais quoi to make it with in the world of literature. They are almost always wrong. The big part of any author’s experience is not getting it published but getting it read by the masses. Half the battle of any author is to stride onward, even if it means facing their fear of rejection.

As hard as it appears to be, it is actually the easiest part of the experiences. Facing the fear of the unknown is more of the nail biter. It takes patience and perseverance. Not every story will be that one that makes the grade. The key is to just take everything in stride and know you made a valiant effort.

Writers are writers, no matter where they may be from. No matter what their occupation; a writer is a writer. The guy next to you on the bus or that offset co-worker who always looks lost in thought. No matter the region, fiction is fiction. No matter the age of the author, the story remains the same. We as writers strive for that very thing any other non-writer strives for.

That is recognition. Recognition of our skills and talents to bend words to fit the need of expression intended to bring you into our world we have created or in some cases destroyed.

The snow had started to fall once again as it has every year since we moved here. The blue spruces look as majestic as the mountains’ do in the background. The kids have yet to wake up this morning. I stand in the front of a wall of glass windows that overlook the snow caped valley below us.

The year has almost come to a close and what a year it has been. The kids did great in their school works; the wife got a promotion at her