Parade

By Top Writers Block

What's on parade? Talent and a few short fiction stories that showcase several genres and moods. There is sure to be something here, on the theme of Parades, that you will enjoy. This collection highlights the talents of Suzy Stewart-Dubot, Tracey Howard, Elizabeth Rowan-Keith, and Melissa A. Szydlek.

Your purchase of this ebook not only supports the creative outlets of independent authors, but also supports charity. Top Writers Block is an international group of writers who continue to donate all of their author proceeds to Sea Shepherd in France, an organization that devotes itself to preserving our seas and oceans and the life within.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Top Writers Block
• Release date: Aug 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370330140

Top Writers Block

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:

PARADE

Copyright ©2016 by each individual author as noted

Published on Smashwords

Cover photograph by Nicholas P. Szydlek, Jr.

Parade Graphic from Adobe Stock

ISBN: 9781370330140

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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This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BAND OF BROTHERS by Tracey Howard

FUNERAL PROCESSION by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

ONLY THE GNOMES KNOW by Suzy Stewart Dubot

THE STRANGER’S PARADE by Melissa A. Szydlek

BAND OF BROTHERES

by

Tracey Howard

Copyright ©2016 by Tracey Howard

Tracey is a stay at home wife and mother who has lived all over the United States. She is currently living in northern Indiana with her husband of nearly twenty years, their 15-year-old daughter and two hairballs of the canine variety. She is an avid reader with an insatiable appetite, surpassed only by her child, to whom she has passed on the reader trait. She is a self-taught amateur shutterbug and although she has been writing for the majority of her adult life, she only recently put both words and pictures out there for the world to see.

Everybody ready to go?

Mom’s call had all four of us kids running for the van.

Hold it!

Grandma’s call was quieter but just as effective