Disability

By Top Writers Block

Some things are broken, disabled, unable to overcome - or successful despite a disability. This collection of short stories runs a wide spectrum of genres on the theme of "Disability" including drama, poetry, mystery, horror, and more! Top Writers Block authors Phil Gerster, Elizabeth Rowan Keith, Tracey Howard, Suzy Stewart Doubt, Alan Naylor, and Melissa A. Szydlek have something to keep you reading.

Your purchase of this ebook not only helps independent authors, but it supports charity as well. 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: Sep 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370383924

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 of:

DISABILITY

Copyright ©August 2017 by each individual author as noted

Published on Smashwords

Cover Photograph from Adobe Stock

ISBN: 9781370383924

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

BE CAREFUL FOR WHAT YOU PRAY by Phil Gerstner

PACT by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

BROKEN by Tracey Howard

INTERFERENCE DISABILITY by Suzy Stewart Dubot

BEATITUDE by Alan Naylor

OBVERSE by Melissa A. Szydlek

BE CAREFUL FOR WHAT YOU PRAY

by

Phil Gerstner

Copyright ©August 2017 Phil Gerstner

As a kid, I was pushed off my bicycle and had the wind knocked out of me by a Quonset hut.  Ever since then, I have been spewing words, lots of them, some suitable for impolite society. Sometimes I put them down on paper. Sometimes they are read by strangers upon whom I kindly depend.  Suffice it to say, I am no Tennessee Williams, so bear with me.

Website: http://philgerstner.com/

She had been coming faithfully since she was five.

Well, except for two years which were beyond her control. She came with her parents who brought her grandparents. They came on the trains, which brought them to the downtown depot. They walked to a home where they stayed for years and later they stayed at the Pilgrim House. Now she comes on a bus from Detroit.

First her grandparents died, then her parents, leaving her to fend on her own. She maintained the tradition of her family, wearing black. The black hose went into the black leather shoes with the black laces and the fat black heels, and peeked out from her mid-length dress, not because the length was fashionable but because it was what old ladies of ethnicity wore. A large, black, triangular mantilla whose one corner hung down her back covered only half of the single, long, gray braid, and the other two corners of the lace mantillas tied under her wrinkled chin, framing her deep-lined face. This attire, although not unique to her, was not seen as often as in years past as her younger counterparts merge into the modern, Western world. The young came, not so much for religious reasons, but treated it as a traditional reunion, the women not carrying black rosary beads like hers, but wearing too tight bodices pushing out their breasts, and arriving by automobiles.

Since 1876, religious Catholic groups have been coming each year for the novena and Feast of the Assumption, the date earmarked for Mary, Mother of Jesus, when she was assumed into heaven, August 15. Many priests and nuns were in attendance in