What's In A Name?

By Top Writers Block

What's in a name? There is the self - the true self - and there is that which we keep hidden. In this collection from Top Writers Block - a group of talented authors from around the globe - the theme of "what's in a name" offers readers a complex collection of thought-provoking work. This e-book includes short fiction, horror, poetry, drama, mystery, and takes one theme and presents it in each author's unique view. This collection includes the work of Melissa A. Szydlek, Elizabeth Rowan Keith, Alan Naylor, David H. Keith, and Suzy Stewart Dubot.

Your purchase of this ebook not only helps promote the work of talented independent authors, 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 which devotes itself to preserving our seas and oceans and the life within.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Top Writers Block
• Release date: Jul 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463455739

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!

Book preview

A Collection of Short Stories

by

TOP WRITERS BLOCK

Written on the theme of:

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Copyright ©July 2019 by each individual author as noted

Published on Smashwords

Cover Photo from Adobe Photo Stock

ISBN: 9780463455739

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

WHAT’S IN A NAME? by Melissa A. Szydlek

EVOLUTION by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

VALIANT by Alan Naylor

I’M SAM by David H. Keith

THE NAME DOESN’T MATTER by Suzy Stewart Dubot

PROGENY by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

by

Melissa A. Szydlek

Copyright ©July 2019 Melissa A. Szydlek, Ph.D.

Melissa A. Szydlek lives in the United States. Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she survived Detroit for many years and has settled into a quieter life in North Carolina with her husband and two dogs. She is an avid animal rights activist and dedicated vegetarian. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and is interested in canine-assisted interventions. With her dog, Artie (a certified Therapy Dog and AKC Canine Good Citizen) she visits nursing