Top Writers Block Presents Moldy

By Top Writers Block

Food gets moldy, books get moldy...but so do people...or relationships....get into the mold with this collection of short stories.

In the newest collection from Top Writers Block, the theme of "Moldy" gets varying degrees of treatment from poetry, fiction, and drama to horror. This collection includes stories by Elizabeth Rowan Keith, Suzy Stewart Dubot, Tracey Howard, Melissa A. Szydlek, and John R. Muir.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Top Writers Block
• Release date: Nov 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311284402

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Top Writers Block is a diverse and eclectic group of talented writers who decided to write stories together - just for the fun of it! We are happy to announce that authors proceeds have always gone, and will continue to go, to Sea Shepherd.fr every time Smashwords has made a payment! Thank you to those who have supported the group, independent authors, and Sea Shepherd. Our collections are usually written with one theme or genre in mind. Each author contributes when they have the time, so some of the collections have as many as twelve authors participating. Every collection has something new, with stories and poems ranging from romance, drama, and adventure to mystery, fantasy, and horror. All the Top Writers Block's proceeds will go to Sea Shepherd, so by buying you are helping to keep our oceans alive! Thank You all so much!

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A Collection of Short Stories

by

TOP WRITERS BLOCK

Written on the theme:

Moldy

Copyright ©October 2015 – copyright held by individual authors

Published on Smashwords

ISBN: 9781311284402

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Staying In One Piece by Suzy Stewart Dubot

A Boring Life by John R. Muir

Mother and the Troll by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

Faded by Tracey Howard

Musty & Mouldy:

Five Short Tales for Halloween by Melissa A. Szydlek

STAYING IN ONE PIECE

by

Suzy Stewart Dubot

Copyright ©October 2015 Suzy Stewart Dubot

An Anglo/American who has been living in France for over 30 years, she began writing as soon as she retired. She recently spent seventeen months in London, UK caring for an aged relative. She is now back in France. Writing follows her as easily as her laptop. With her daughters, she is a vegetarian and a supporter of animal rights. She is also an admirer of the British abolitionist, William Wilberforce, who was also a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (S.P.C.A.).

Chapter 1

Fanny pushed the cheese away.

I cannot eat that. It is mouldy!

What do you expect? We are in the middle of a revolution and people are starving. If you don’t want the cheese, there are others who will take it and be grateful, Claude told her.

The mouldy cheese was not, in fact, the problem. It was simply an indication of the anarchy that reigned around her. She was used to order, and now there was none. The cheese, with its mould, was the proof.

She, her mother and younger sister had all been separated for their own safety. It was easier to pass one person incognito than a family of three. She was alone and dependent on an ex-servant to help her make her way to England.

She didn’t want to think about any of it, because that would bring back memories of her former privileged life when she’d had the choice of ten cheeses with each meal, and none of them had been green with mould.

Reluctantly, her hand stretched out to retrieve the lump of cheese she had rejected. She was hungry enough that she would scrape the cheese and then eat it. She didn’t know when she would next have an opportunity to eat.

Claude smiled to himself.

He had known this young woman from childhood. Coming from a well-to-do, titled family, she had been spoiled all her life. Even now, she preferred to ignore the chaos around her, thinking that if she refused to acknowledge its existence, it would go away. Taking the mouldy cheese was the first step to adapting and, perhaps, surviving.

Over a period of ten years, Claude had worked diligently for the family of Baron Mazure de Lormes. The Baron had always been generous with his employees, so it had been natural for Claude to want to help his Lordship in his time of need. Before the city had run completely amok, the Baron had given him a good deal of money to help move his family to a safe place.