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    Theme Park
    Theme Park
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    Theme Park

    By Top Writers Block, Cleve Sylcox, Barnaby Wilde and

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    Six exciting worlds of adventure, mystery, drama, suspense, and horror await you. Climb aboard as Top Writers Block takes you on a ride celebrating the talent of independent authors. Come explore these unique worlds. Delight in classic writing styles, whimsical humor, and cold corridors of spine-tingling mayhem. This collection is sure to delight. Enter here at the Top Writers Block Theme Park. You are most welcomed here. Includes stories from Tracey Howard, Melissa A. Szydlek, Baraby Wilde, Suzy Stewart Dubot, and Cleve Sylcox.

    Your purchase of this ebook not only supports the creative outlets of independent authors, but also supports charity. Top Writers Block is an international group of writers who continue to donate all of their author proceeds to Sea Shepherd in France, an organization that devotes itself to preserving our seas and oceans and the life within.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTop Writers Block
    Release dateApr 14, 2016
    ISBN9781310412417
    Theme Park
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    Top Writers Block

    Top Writers Block is a diverse and eclectic group of talented writers who decided to write stories together - just for the fun of it! We are happy to announce that authors proceeds have always gone, and will continue to go, to Sea Shepherd.fr every time Smashwords has made a payment! Thank you to those who have supported the group, independent authors, and Sea Shepherd. Our collections are usually written with one theme or genre in mind. Each author contributes when they have the time, so some of the collections have as many as twelve authors participating. Every collection has something new, with stories and poems ranging from romance, drama, and adventure to mystery, fantasy, and horror. All the Top Writers Block's proceeds will go to Sea Shepherd, so by buying you are helping to keep our oceans alive! Thank You all so much!

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      Theme Park - Top Writers Block

      A Collection of Short Stories

      by

      TOP WRITERS BLOCK

      Written on the theme:

      THEME PARK

      Copyright ©March 2016 by each individual author as noted

      Published on Smashwords

      Cover Graphic from Adobe Stock

      ISBN: 9781310412417

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Smashwords License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Crime in Color by Elizabeth Rowan Keith - https://goo.gl/X6lve4

      Absent by Tracey Howard - https://goo.gl/rI3eDX

      Here You Enter by Melissa A. Szydlek - https://goo.gl/QeZqk9

      The Magic Kingdom by Barnaby Wilde - https://goo.gl/Oqmz2F

      Worlds Apart by Suzy Stewart Dubot - https://goo.gl/snAUfw

      Premonition by Cleve Sylcox - https://goo.gl/zXDfdj

      CRIME IN COLOR

      by

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Copyright ©March 2016 Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith is a researcher, writer, photography, and artist who has received multiple awards in all four fields. Along with her collie, Belle, she tends many gardens and trees under the grand sky of the North American Great Plains. She is the widow of award-winning author David H. Keith.

      Detective Phillips arrived at work early, not expecting to find his sergeant already there. It wasn’t a surprise, though. They were working one case that would not come together, even though they intuitively knew the directions to follow.

      Sergeant Miller was standing at a white board on one office wall. He had drawn circles and squares from one side of the board to the other, filling each with written information on specific aspects of the case.

      Phillips had seen Miller diagram complicated cases. It was rare to see one drawn out with so much detail. It was the first in which Miller had used multiple marker colors.

      It looks like Disneyland up there, Phillips commented as he slid his coat onto a hook behind the door.

      That’s a good way to describe this one, Miller responded.

      Taking a step back, he pointed the marker in his hand toward the board.

      We have a central theme, but one full set of people and events over here, and a completely different set over there. I’m trying to organize the actions, people, and relationships in some manageable way.

      Hence the new office supplies, Phillips prompted.

      It seems like a good way to keep it all under control. Different colors mean different things, Miller explained.

      Phillips stood next to Miller. Both detectives examined the diagram, still under construction, in front of them.

      You might need a key, Phillips said.

      A what? asked Miller.

      Phillips pointed to the remaining white space in the lower corner of the board.

      A key. Like a like a map key. An explanation of what colors, lines, and symbols mean on a map. You could do the same here to indicate how to read this diagram. It would be easier for us to read, follow, and work with here, and in our heads.

      I get it, said Miller. Like a theme park directory. This one is messy all over the place. Maybe that will help pull it all together.

      We’ll pull it together, Phillips said to comfort his fellow investigator.

      Sometimes all it takes is a different angle to see how and where things line up. That’s good to do before new pieces have to be fit into the landscape, Miller thought out loud.

      That’s how we will work this one, Phillips said confidently. We will link the boxes and circles together as circumstances and information unfolds.

      Don’t we always do that? asked Miller.

      Yes, we do, Phillips agreed. But now we have new materials and colorful visuals. It’s engaging, if not entertaining.

      Entertaining? Miller questioned.

      You know we do this, at least in part, to experience the challenge and the fun of figuring it all out. We explore the geography, the evidence, the people, and pull it all together one wild ride at a time, Phillips responded.

      You may be right about that, Sergeant Miller mused. We do seem to go from one wild ride to another.

      We sure do, agreed Phillips. Until we have the criminal theme park mapped out, we go from one colorful, wild ride to another. And we stop for food in between.

      Miller smiled, in spite of himself.

      Disneyland cases.

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      ABSENT

      by

      Tracey Howard

      Copyright ©March 2016 Tracey Howard

      Tracey is a stay at home wife and mother who has lived all over the United States. She is currently living in northern Indiana with her husband of nearly twenty years, their 15-year-old daughter and two hairballs of the canine variety. She is an avid reader with an insatiable appetite, surpassed only by her child, to whom she has passed on the reader trait. She is a self-taught amateur shutterbug and although she has been writing for the majority of her adult life, she only recently put both words and pictures out there for the world to see.

      Stop the world,

      I want off!

      I am done.

      This crazy ride

      needs to be over.

      I didn’t sign up

      for any of

      the things this life

      has thrown

      at me.

      Nowhere in

      the small print

      did it say I

      have to take this.

      I never asked

      for the pain

      of an imperfect body,

      allied with

      my damaged heart,

      and wild mind.

      I am not able

      to shoulder

      the anger and blame

      strapped upon me.

      Always piling up,

      never taking back

      the garbage left behind,

      from the day

      of my soul’s first breath.

      This clownish carnival,

      populated with masks

      covered in face paint,

      overflowing with plastic

      merry-go-round horses

      is just too much.

      Stop time,

      open a door,

      so I can walk through,

      escape the wastelands.

      I want to leave

      this false stage

      filled with

      badly scripted actors,

      unable to convince

      anyone

      that their hearts feel

      and their minds aren’t empty.

      Sad marionettes,

      strung high,

      dancing for their

      silent puppeteers

      always pulling strings.

      Turn back

      the wheels of time.

      Bring out the sun!

      The easy laughter

      of a heart unbruised,

      an unfettered soul.

      Let me relive the days

      before the truth

      of reality

      tore away the blinds

      of youth and folly,

      leaving a bitter shell

      filled with cold ashes.

      Take away

      the hurtful memories

      of a life wasted.

      Forward my soul

      to it’s next life

      so it will once again

      know the beauty

      of a clean slate.

      A smooth surface

      unmarked by

      childish bullies

      masquerading as lovers.

      Waiting with bated breath

      to unleash their bile

      upon unblemished shores.

      Grant me

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