Eleven Shorts +1
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  • Reads 1,337
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  • Parts 12
  • Time 2h 31m
Complete, First published Feb 04, 2013
Eleven short stories, posted one story at a time:

Two little girls, in two different eras, yearning for their parents. A shy girl in a new country. An uncertain woman dancing back into life after the death of a spouse. A thrilling short short. Mother and son argue over what is dignity, what value her life. A creepy little short that won an honourable mention in the Hart House Short Story Contest. The bureaucrat and his ever-so-busy day. A party that glitters and excludes ones who don't fit. A daughter rebels. A mother and her youngest, a conflict without end, that only death can solve? Murder stalks the homeless in Toronto's innocent streets.

I hope you enjoy these stories!

The ePub and Kindle versions include a bonus romance, written in 1919 by my grandmother, about two people who have to face danger to find each other. There's a story in that:

My mother’s sister and mother liked to write poetry. My mother’s mother was a stellar speller and a killer Scrabble player. But I had no idea until recently that as an adolescent she had written and submitted stories for publication. I don’t think her queries were successful. And it wasn’t long before she got married and started riding the Wall of Death as a living with her husband. And so in honour of that century-ago effort of hers, I reproduced in the ePub, as she typed it errors and all (or what I suppose to be errors as grammar is different between countries and eras), the story my mother – her daughter – found recently in an old envelope postmarked from London 6:15 pm 23 SP 19 (23 September 1919) to Miss D. Searby. Purchase "Eleven Shorts +1" at Smashwords or Amazon to read it.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/82913

http://www.amazon.com/Eleven-Shorts-1-ebook/dp/B005ICFNWK

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"𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓯𝓮𝓵𝓵 𝓲𝓷 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻'𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓾𝓵 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓭 𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻'𝓼 𝓫𝓸𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓼." Yet their love was called a blemish............................ Ananya Khurrana and Devarsh Thakur grew up as childhood sweethearts to a married couple. They were with each other's ups and downs. They witnessed the ugliest scars to beautiful memories. They experienced heart-wrenching incidents to heartwarming days. They fought for each other against all the odds. They stood for each other against the world. They held each other against all the destructive forces that tried to drown them. But... After 10 years of their married life, at the age of 28 when youngsters start their life together, will they both stand by each other or part away? Will the destructive forces that tried to drown them, push them to the core or will they swim back to the shore? Will Ananya be able to understand his dark secrets? Will Devarsh have a second chance at love? Will this story of obsession and dreams be incomplete or will it become an eternal love story? Join their journey to witness the intertwined hearts of these obsidian sinners and know if they get stronger or the fate wins separating them. It is a spin off book of My Sinner but can be read as stand alone. But I recommend you all to read it first and then, this. Caution:- It contains very mature themes like swearing, murder, violence and sex. The male's attitude might not suit your feminist theories. So, read the book only if you have the constructive criticism. Welcome to Sinner's World.