Short Stories to Dazzle

By Cynthia Cordell

Short Stories to Dazzle is a compilation of fun-to-read short stories. The reader will love immersing themselves into the everyday lives of the characters represented in this body of work. The characters find themselves in conflicting circumstances that are soon resolved with a happy ending. This short story anthology is the type of book that you would want to curl up with. Reading it with a group of friends would also be a great way to pass the time. Each person can take a turn reading a short story. Each scenario asks the characters in the story to listen to their hearts as they wade through all that life throws at them. The reader cant help but cheer on each character because they begin to see themselves in each one.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543442427

Cynthia Cordell

Cynthia Cordell is a Filipino-American author. She is a light-hearted soul who truly enjoys getting along with other writers and learning from them about the craft of writing. She is easy to get along with and she will drop everything to tell you about her kids. Cynthia has aspirations of wanting to reach her full writing potential and then to go beyond that. We all have our dreams and Cynthia’s is just to experience a lifetime of physical fitness – to be of sound mind and body. Writing has been a Godsend. One can only imagine what life would be like if there was nothing to fall back on. When figuring out about how to score the arrangement of her novellas and novels, Cynthia will sing the feel-good songs she finds on YouTube. She reads the lyrics and sings along. She is old school when it comes to her music selections.

Book preview

Disco Ball

Stacks of books everywhere. However, one man’s clutter is another man’s resource pile. For that matter, one man’s comfort zone is another man’s learning curve. Inching along, making your way in a particular job—or lack thereof—you still usually find yourself on a path. That path, if you’re lucky, is dotted with bread crumbs.

If the bread crumbs are not so obvious, what would God have put in their place? Perhaps in reading a novel a month, the bread crumbs during a year are the individual novels? Plus, within each novel, the individual bread crumbs are the pages themselves. Incremental steps have been thought of in many different ways over the centuries. Wasn’t it once said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with that first step that you take? My addition to that wise adage is to add bread crumbs.

Bread crumbs make you aware of where you’re at and what you are doing at all times. They let you know that you have a specific destination and that your purpose in life, if only for that moment, is to get to where you’re going. The physical bread crumbs of a book are the pages of it, and while the plot and theme may keep you interested in reading it, when you break the task down, the key to finishing that book is to read each page, one at a time. Plus, when you reach that final page of the book, sometimes you can hear the 1812 Overture playing in the background, complete with the cannon firing in the