Adult Short Story Anthologies - Contributor

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  This book is a collection of short stories by extremely talented authors. These six stories are included:
The Last Stop by Chera Thompson
This story takes you through the life of a woman trying to understand the way things work in the country she moved to. She was scared out of her mind the day her son’s school bus was hours late. She didn’t know what to do. What had happened? Where was her son?

A Christmas Toy by Glenn Berggoetz
This story is about a poor family doing the best they can to survive in 1948. Their seven-year-old little girl is diagnosed with Rhematic Fever a few days before Christmas. The family doesn’t have much money and everything they had saved for Christmas will have to go towards their little girl’s medical treatment and medication. The kids will have to do without any presents this year. Sadness would have taken over their entire hearts if it hadn’t been for one small act of kindness. It changed everything.

Smuggled Heart by Karen E. Rigley
Lyndi Wells and Stone Black met literally by accident. After things out of their control happen, they have to pretend to be a couple in love planning their wedding. They had only just met and Lyndi hated that she had to go along with this act, but the men they were acting for were very bad and their lives were in danger if they didn’t convince them that they were a couple. After spending time with Stone, Lyndi was starting to fall in love with him and didn’t want it all to end. Did he feel the same way?

Never Mess With A Grandpa by Elaine M. DeGroot
Ellis and Clark played a very competitive game of dominos every week at the zoo. There was a nice park where they could sit and play for as long as they wanted. Ellis was driven by his granddaughter Petra and Clark was driven by his grandson Patrick. As they played their game both claiming to be the winner before they even started. They paid no attention to Petra and Clark running as fast as they could to tell them that they had to leave. A leopard had escaped it’s habitat and was on the loose. It was getting closer to the grandpas. As Petra and Patrick got closer, they saw that the leopard was right beside their grandpas. Would the leopard attack them or would they be saved?

The Christmas Fairy by Paul Smith
Jack was in love with Emily and wanted to ask her to marry him, but he was too scared. He was so nervous that he could barely talk. He didn’t know what to do when suddenly his Christmas fairy showed up to help him. Would he be able to get past his nerves and ask the woman he loved to be his wife? Would she say yes?

Karma Is A Bitch by Lizzy Stevens and Steve Miller
Karmas are immortals that kept the not so good people in line. They lived by the motto "Do bad things bad things will happen." Tessa Waters was one of the best Karmas of the Karma realm. However, she wasn't the fastest. She would watch over the realms, Earth, being her main realm. When she saw somebody not behaving she would send down a Karma punishment on that person. They were always funny and made the other Karmas laugh but she wasn't fast enough. The head Karma thought it would help Tessa if instead of watching from a far she went down to Earth and passed out the punishments up close. Maybe that would make her faster. She could not return until she hit 100 Karmas. Tessa thought that would be no problem. Until the trickster of all tricksters, Loki, got in her way. How was she supposed to pass out Karmas if Loki was right in the way playing pranks on everyone? Now Tessa had to deal with the trouble makers and Loki. How was she supposed to hit her goal of 100 and make it back home?