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    Pain
    Pain
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    Pain

    By Top Writers Block

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    Pain comes in many forms. Whether physical or mental, pain causes suffering to different degrees. This anthology of stories will affect you in some way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTop Writers Block
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781310783593
    Pain
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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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      Book preview

      Pain - Top Writers Block

      Collection of Short Stories

      by

      Top Writers Block

      on the theme:

      ‘Pain’

      Copyright©May 2014 Top Writers Block

      Published by Top Writers Block at Smashwords

      ISBN:

      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.

      http://suzystewartdubotbooks.weebly.com

      Smashwords Edition, 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 recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of these authors.

      Credits

      Cover design : Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Cover photo : George Hodan, goo.gl/mzqqNe

      Table of Contents

      An Artist’s Freedom by John Muir

      Fine Weather by Barnaby Wilde

      A Good Death by Melissa A. Szydlek

      Happy Good Morning by David H. Keith

      Left Behind by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Pain by Don Bick

      A Life Unlived by Bill Rayburn

      Fictional Pain by Suzy Stewart Dubot

      An Artist’s Freedom

      by

      John Muir

      copyright © 2006

      John Muir, born in Hamilton, New Zealand, shifted to Palmerston North before starting primary school. Attended Palmerston North Boys High School and graduated in accounting from Massey University. Spent 25 years in Sydney, Australia and time in Asia. Returned to New Zealand in 2007. Two collections of short stories published in paperback, now available in ebooks with others.

      I had finished work early and was waiting for her arrival at the little suburban station.

      The oblong building straddled two pairs of tracks. The balcony on the city side was a good viewing area. The waiting room contained the most intricate, eye-catching and thought provoking piece of aboriginal art I had ever seen. Behind thick glass, it was about a metre wide and 60 centimetres high.

      For a brief period we had the original. The sudden statement from behind startled me. I had not realized the station master had been watching me.

      A print?

      Yeah. Four done. The others are in Australia House, the Governor General’s residence, and the PM’s office.

      Takes my breath away. Where’s the original?

      Canberra Art Gallery. A precious native art worth tens of thousands.

      Not signed. Who’s the painter?

      We know who, just don’t know his name.

      Dead?

      No. Alive. A local actually. Lives in the bush somewhere around here. That’s his only known painting.

      How’d you get it?

      He was carrying an incomplete canvas and paints with him when he was scrounging around the platforms out there. Found a whisky bottle and within minutes was asleep on the rail line. The police took him, canvas and painting gear away. He was mute and didn’t understand English.

      Local aboriginals tried to communicate with him, but our painter only understood some. They decided he’s not originally from here. They reckon he’d found the abandoned canvas, paint and brushes on a bush track, then started to paint his life on canvas.

      The cops cleaned him up, and fed him. They left him with his gear in a cell over the weekend until a court hearing on trespass and public drunkenness. In that time he completed the painting. Magistrate found him guilty and fined him. He had no money so the Court confiscated the painting in payment. It was just another painting. Nobody knew its value then, until the experts saw it.

      "Now he wants his painting back because it contains

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