Tick-Tock

By Xlibris US

Tick-Tock features the following works by Sereena Nightshade: Grandmothers Clock, The Great Production, The Achilles Tendon, Tick-Tock the mini-essay, Bizarre, Wearing-On, Too Late, Asking the Question, Severing the Connection, Last Shots, 2009, The Best Years Ever, Aftermath, Beautiful, Photo Pages, Reply to Arrogance, Discussions, Shadow Warrior, Pecksniffian Carpet, The Cake, Sheets of Rubble. Tick Tock additionally contains numerous photos of Nightshades art work in complete and in-progress form.

Names of individuals in all of this authors books are fictitious names. Real names are not revealed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781493154128

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Copyright © 2013 by Sereena Nightshade. 142740-GROO

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4931-5411-1

EBook 978-1-4931-5412-8

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Rev. date: 08/13/2014

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By Sereena Nightshade

Cover photo: Art work entitled Folly in Shades of Blue by Sereena Nightshade.

Someone Once Said: I will place a weak lamb before each of you and if you slay it or neglect it till its life force subsides I will know your true heart. If each of you keep this lamb safe and nurtured and well all men shall profit and all men shall be saved by the grace of this one being fulfilled in the multitudes of the lambs placed everywhere before all of mankind.

By Sereena Nightshade

Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world.

By Itzhak Stern

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

By Nelson Mandela

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but noting consistently without courage.

By Maya Angelou

Courage is being scarred to death… and saddling up anyway.

By John Wayne

Courage is huge and failure to protect is the ultimate deal demolisher.

By Sereena Nightshade

The police think that just because he didn’t kill you he didn’t somehow end your life…

Author: Unknown.

Stalking is like a rape that lasts for weeks, months or years.

Author: Unknown

PROLOGUE

Tick-Tock is a short book of mini-essays, entries and poetry depicting the strange senseless choices of certain others and the back-lash or ripples of those choices. The manuscript was initially scheduled for a wider variety of new material; however, this writer’s time frame elapsed and thus what is herein will have to suffice.

Some noteworthy quotes from this writer’s previous material remain relevant to both what this material depicts as well as how it may be read:

1. First rule of the witch hunt; don’t limit yourself to the witches.

2. It is impossible to predict how an unstable mind may interpret information.

Visions of riddles and the overwhelming desire to project oneself onto one’s victim are the mainstay of the sociopath and sociopath type personality who may read this book. This book was not written for such individuals.

Please excuse any and all typos herein. This writer’s reasons for potential typing errors have been explained in previous books. The value of the notions, words, and experiences remains. Please utilize context clues when or if confused. Moreover, it is advisable to review this writer’s other material (i.e. books) for additional clarification.

By Sereena Nightshade

Contents

Grandmother’s Clock

The Great Production

The Achilles’ Tendon

Tick-Tock

Bizarre

Wearing-On

Too Late

Asking the Questions

Severing the Connection

Last Shots

2009

The Best Years Ever

Aftermath

Beautiful

Reply to Arrogance

Discussions

Panda

Shadow Warrior

Pecksniffian Carpet

The Cake