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    Quiet Lives
    Quiet Lives
    Quiet Lives
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    Quiet Lives

    By Adele Cosgrove-Bray

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    All her life, Dawn has been told she isn't beautiful. Armajeet refuses to compromise when her lover lacks bite. The generation gap provides a meditation on family life. And the witch who welcomes a door-to-door salesman grants an unexpected gift.

    Appearances can be deceptive…and nothing is as it seems in these four short stories of womens' lives:- Beautiful; Dear Harry; The Four Seasons; and Mirror.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdele Cosgrove-Bray
    Release dateMay 8, 2012
    ISBN9781476010632
    Quiet Lives
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    Adele Cosgrove-Bray

    Adele Cosgrove-Bray is a writer and artist. Her writing has been widely published traditionally in magazines and anthologies, and she has also explored self-publishing. Her Artisan-Sorcerer novels have drawn an impressive cult following. Other activities include photography, gardening and walking with her dogs through the ancient woodlands of the Wirral peninsula in England.

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      Quiet Lives - Adele Cosgrove-Bray

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      Quiet Lives

      By

      Adele Cosgrove-Bray

      Quiet Lives, 2nd Edition.

      Copyright: Adele Cosgrove-Bray, 2012.

      First published by Amazon Shorts, 2008.

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      The right of Adele Cosgrove-Bray to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted.

      All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published.

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      Other Titles by Adele Cosgrove-Bray

      Artisan-Sorcerer Novels:

      Tamsin

      Rowan

      Short Stories:

      Dark Tales

      Spanish Jones

      The Karens

      A Wirral Otherkin Trilogy

      Poetry:

      Entering the Grove

      Threads

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      Table of Contents

      Beautiful

      Dear Harry

      The Four Seasons

      Mirror

      *********

      Beautiful

      Look at me; as tall as a man and twice as broad. Big meaty legs, heavy arms. Square plain face. But I’m old so it doesn’t matter, so people tell me.

      Like my niece – one minute she’s asking me questions as if I’m the font of all knowledge, then the next she’s laughing and telling me I’m old-fashioned and that I don’t know anything about life. Oh sure, I’m only seventy-two….

      She’d been talking about her new bikini. Little more than string, it was; expensive string

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