Infinite House of Books Spontaneous Choices Shorts: A Journey in Storytelling

By Shannon Muir

The Spontaneous Choices brand of stories from Shannon Muir has a long history, including serial storytelling to book series and back again. Find out how Shannon's "spontaneous choices" affected her writing. Includes the short story "End of Summer," and Caitlin Blacke and her friends start a new life chapter, both originally in serial form on SHANNON MUIR'S HOUSE OF BOOKS, and a new story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shannon Muir
• Release date: Apr 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463669624

Shannon Muir

SHANNON MUIR's short stories include suspense and mystery elements such as those found in her first full-length story from Pro Se Press, CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS DOC AND SALLY IN "THE DEATH OF BUDDY TURNER". Additionally, she's written short stories for Pro Se Press such as “Tragic Like a Torch Song” in THE DAME DID IT from Pro Se Press, "Pretty as a Picture" in the anthology NEWSHOUNDS, “Tropical Terror” in CRIME DOWN ISLAND and “Hidden History” in EXPLORER PULP. She’s also written the Single Shot New Pulp tale “Ghost of the Airwaves,” a short story offered in electronic format only from Pro Se Press.From her personal self-published projects, her best known titles in this area include the rural crime series THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA.In other genres, Shannon's published short stories include “Meeting the Monster” in the Emby Press anthology SUPERHERO MONSTER HUNTER: THE GOOD FIGHT and "Cover Story" in ARIA KALSAN: MYSTERIES OF THE FUTURE.Shannon holds a BA in Radio-TV and English from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, which she considers to be her hometown. She also holds an MA in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, along with additional education in screenwriting, project management, library technician studies, and most recently a certificate earned with distinction in General Business with Emphasis in Marketing from UCLA Extension. Currently, she is working on a Masters of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University.She is married to FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY collaborator and fellow author Kevin Paul Shaw Broden. They live in California in the United States.She is a member of Sisters in Crime (national, Guppies, and Los Angeles, where she also served on the Los Angeles board for a two terms beginning in 2018), as well as the Toastmasters4Writers Chapter of Toastmasters International (where she serves as chapter Secretary), Women in Animation, and a Professional member of ASIFA-Hollywood.

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COPYRIGHT

INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS – SPONTANEOUS CHOICES: A JOURNEY IN STORYTELLING

By Shannon Muir

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2020 Shannon Muir

First Smashwords publication April 2020.

This ebook is for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be given away or resold to others. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy from Smashwords or a vendor partner. If you want to share this work with others, please purchase a copy for each person. Thank you for respecting the hard work of artists and creators.

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COPYRIGHT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THE BOOK

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

STORY – A NEW CHAPTER OF LOVE

STORY – SUMMER’S END

STORY – PHOTOGRAPHS OF MEMORIES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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ABOUT THE BOOK

This small book has changed many times, which I suppose remains consistent of the theme of journey and storytelling. It’s a snapshot into the how and why the SPONTANEOUS CHOICES brand came to be, and ultimately why I decided to retire it.

There will be other stories, some featuring these characters but told in new settings and ways. The short tales in this book are part of the transition plan to that new focus. Thanks for all the support and I hope to see you on the journey.

Shannon Muir

April 2020

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CHAPTER ONE – GIVING YOUR BEST

I heard a speaker recently who talked about it being a writer’s mission to always give people our best work. I’m going to be honest and admit I don’t think I’ve always done that, as far as the stories that were under the Spontaneous Choices imprint were concerned. I experimented by going into uncharted areas for me, and basically let readers watch as I experimented. Perhaps that was more