Memories to Treasure: AngelStories Short Story Collection, #4

By Michael Lynes

Love remembered...life honored...our lives are Memory...our loves are our only hope to be, and all that hope adored and lost has melted into memory

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Lynes
• Release date: Jan 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386497530

Michael Lynes

MICHAEL LYNES is the Award-Winning Author of The Blood Series. To date, the series has won the New Apply Literary, Indie BRAG Medallion, Readers Favorite for FANTASY and most recently the IAN Book of the Year Selection for Fantasy. The series begins with the novella "It's in the Blood" and continues with Destroyer's Blood. NEW release Book Two - FIRST BLOOD is due out on November 1st 2019. Book One - "Destroyer's Blood"  Reviewed By Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite Destroyer's Blood: The Adventures of Devcalion: "a gripping fantasy with strong hints of Greek mythology." Meet Devcalion, "Dev," a demigod, son of Prometheus and nephew of Zeus. He has a telepathic sword and a very close friend called Betrayer, "Tray". When we encounter Dev, he and his friend are climbing up Half Dome. An encounter with Hermes changes everything, driving Dev to the last place he wants to be -- Mt. Olympus. Dev and Tray are pulled into a war they never bargained for. With the darkest power in the universe bent on wreaking havoc, do they have any chance of surviving?  Destroyer's Blood has been awarded the Silver Medal for Fantasy in the Readers Favorite Awards for 2019 and has won an Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion for Fantasy. It also won the Solo Medalist in the New Apple Summer eBook Awards for 2019. Book Two - "First Blood" will be released in November of 2019. His short story collection, "The Fat Man Gets Out of Bed", was chosen solo Medalist Winner in the 2017 New Apple Summer Indie Book awards.  His memoir, "There Is A Reaper: Losing a Child to Cancer", was an Indie B.R.A.G. Gold Medallion Honoree , a silver-medal winner Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards for Memoir, a medalist in the New Apple Book Awards for Memoir, and a finalist in Independent Author Network Book of the Year award and the Beverly Hills Book Awards. Most recently Mr. Lynes has been a Contributing Author to the 2019 Ghostly Rites Anthology. Mr. Lynes was awarded a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and currently works as an embedded software engineer. He has four sons, has been married for over thirty years, and currently lives with his wife and youngest son in the beautiful secluded hills of Sussex County, New Jersey.

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Memories to Treasure

AngelStories Short Story Collection, Volume 4

Michael Lynes

Published by Michael Lynes, 2018.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

MEMORIES TO TREASURE

First edition. January 25, 2018.

Copyright © 2018 Michael Lynes.

ISBN: 978-1386497530

Written by Michael Lynes.

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MEMORIES TO TREASURE

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MEMORIES TO TREASURE

TERRENCE PARKER, TERRY TO HIS FRIENDS, looked up.  It was getting dark.  The late October sky was turning a dusky gray-blue.  He could feel the cold creeping in through the ancient double-hung sash window.  He rose, feeling the soreness in his legs and shoulders. 

He’d spent all Monday clearing out the attic, lowering everything through the cramped trapdoor and carting it down three flights to the street.  My back is going to kill me tomorrow for sure, he thought with a bitter smile.

Just about everything else he had found that day barely deserved to be called junk.  The large ironbound trunk was the exception.  It had been completely hidden from view, entombed beneath decades’ worth of moth-eaten periodicals.  After clearing a space, he’d dragged it to the center of the room to get a better look.  There was a faded square of parchment fixed to one broad oaken side.  He turned it towards the window and held his head at an angle.  He squinted, trying to read the faint lettering in the fading light.

It’s no use, he sighed.  The sunlight’s gone, and my flash and my tools are back at the storage locker.  He wished he could turn on a lamp, but the power had been cut off weeks before.  Don’t know how I’d get the darn thing downstairs without some help, anyway, he reminded himself, talking out loud to the walls.  I’ll just crack it open up here and see what’s in it.

He sighed deeply.  It’s prolly just full of more junk.  Anyways, I got no tools, and tomorrow’s another day.  At least I managed to clear out most of the space.

The discovery of the trunk was unexpected and exciting.  What if it contained something