Blackleaf's Story Sampler

By Autumn Blackleaf

A story sampler of Autumn Blackleaf's books including:

Midnight on Halloween,
Transforming Tails,
Blood for the Master,
Life Is For Eating.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Autumn Blackleaf
• Release date: Sep 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463675342

Autumn Blackleaf

Vancouver born and raised. Everyday kindness and a bit of humour go a long way.

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Blackleaf’s Story Sampler

Autumn Blackleaf

Copyright © 2019 Autumn Blackleaf

Smashwords Edition.

Discover books by Autumn Blackleaf

Baby Safety Rhymes

Midnight on Halloween:

Stories for dark minds

Life is for Eating:

a collection of short stories

Blood for the Master

(Coming soon)

Transforming Tails

(Coming soon)

Foreward

Hello!

Thank you for taking a chance on this story sampler.

I sincerely hope that my work entertains you.

Humbly yours,

Autumn Blackleaf

Organic Ink Limited

Excerpt from Midnight on Halloween by Autumn Blackleaf Limited

"Tattoo artists create designs by driving ink into the bottom layer of your skin called the dermis. That ink is held there by tissues formed during the healing process. Your fat cells are located in a layer beneath the dermis, called the subcutaneous layer. These fat cells are the body’s storage system; most non-obese people have the same number they’ve had since puberty since that’swhich is when the body stops making them. Some people store that extra calories as fat in their fat cells, and some people have the extra pass straight through their system so their fat cells don’t end up storing it. The thing to note here is that fat cells don’t go away when they’re not storingyou do manage to work off that extra flab, they just remain empty... and empty things beg to be filled."

I’ve said it so many times that I barely realize when I’ve stopped speaking until the client sitting across from me in this claustrophobic room studio asks a question that most people coming in already know the answer to.

Whether it hurts or not depends on you. I am well aware of good sanitation practices and I own my own autoclave.

I watch the clientperson flip through my portfolio books: ten years worth of pages of wallet sized photographs of smiling mouthspeople. Of course, now they’d like to tell me about the design they have in mind and I have to let them down gently, since they haven’t quite figured it out yet even after seeing my portfolio.

"The person who recommended me should have mentioned that I choose the design. I know that’s not how you’re used to it being done here, but what I can give you is much better than your