Vigilance

By Top Writers Block

Top Writers Block presents another short story and poem collection on the theme of "Vigilance." Here are works of mystery, murder, horror, heartbreak, happiness, and more that keep a careful watch over something important. 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.

This collection includes works by Jeanne Felfe, Alan Naylor, Tammy S. Lough, Melissa A. Szydlelk, Suzy Stewart Dubot, and Elizabeth Rowan Keith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Top Writers Block
• Release date: Jan 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370685004

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 and Poems

by

TOP WRITERS BLOCK

Written on the theme:

VIGILANCE

Copyright ©December 2016 by each individual author as noted

Published on Smashwords

Cover Graphic from Adobe Stock

ISBN: 9781370685004

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

Vigilance Against the Usurpers by Jeanne Felfe

Frank by Alan Naylor

Shadow Dwellers by Tammy S. Lough

The Drummer by Melissa A. Szydlek

The Night Watch by Suzy Stewart Dubot

Promise Pending by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

Together We Are Vigilant by Melissa A. Szydlek

Vigilance by Alan Naylor

VIGILANCE AGAINST THE USURPERS

by

Jeanne Felfe

Copyright ©December 2016 Jeanne Felfe

Jeanne started writing as a teen, but never seriously until about 2012. She would start writing with stark raving enthusiasm, and then mysteriously stop, sometimes for months or years. It wasn't until she retired from her ATT Project Management job that she asked herself, if not now, when? She launched into the July 2013 Camp NaNoWriMo, the writer bug bit, and this time didn't let go. Since then, her personal essay Yes, It's Personal was published in 2014 in Under the Surface: Anthology #8. In 2015, two short stories--The Bond and The Price for News--were published in Anything Goes, Volume 2, and in 2016, her Urban Fantasy short story The Elementals was published in Matters of Substance. Her humorous piece The Pie Rack's Secret and several others will be published in late 2016 in the Saturday Writer's anthology. Her debut novel, The Art of Healing, a sweet love story, was published in June 2016. Jeanne is currently working on her second novel, a dramatic story of lost love, lies and family betrayal. Her short, The Elementals aches to be a novel and will be third, after the characters in her second get their shot--otherwise they will drive her insane badgering her with what about us? Jeanne is a Texan by birth, but has resided in the St. Louis area since 1986, currently in St. Charles, MO, with her fiancé, and two dogs who believe they are tiny humans. She likes to say, If you ever meet someone named Felfe, we ARE related.

It was her responsibility; there was no one else. Lily simply had to ensure that all was safe in their world.

Each morning, even before breakfast, she raced into the field to the first of her posts where she would sit sentry, often for hours on end. Her fellow guards were lazy, preferring a cursory look around before returning to the warmth of the interior for a leisurely breakfast. So this misty, freezing morning she was all alone in the vast compound of her realm.

When the slightest movement in the far corner attracted her attention, she