Scarlet Leaf Review: Anthologies
By Lucian Arthur, Mira Popescu, Kate Van Der Meer and
()
About this ebook
Three awarded short-stories for 2016: a short-story full of suspense and thrilling events showing how to murder someone, pinning the kill on someone else; a quasi-biographical short-story revealing embarrassing moments in a woman's life and her decision to take her life back (better later than never); the revelation of a quirks in the life of the inhabitants of a building that is about to be sold, the owner not knowing what he'd bring upon himself, had he sold the building. Enjoy mathematical planning, humor and good writing!
Our very first collection of award winning essays submitted by authors like you. Learn about the struggles of being a girl in a massively-multiplayer online game, about how to build a computer (or not) or about how to properly budget your life (or not). Humor, triumphs and defeats all to be found in this winning collection.
Related to Scarlet Leaf Review
Related ebooks
Jay's Salvation (Book 3 in The Winstons Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr. (Almost) Right Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Man in the Elevator Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMeg La Răscruce De Drumuri Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trezirea Beckăi: Familia Winston, #1 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dilema lui Matt: Cartea a doua in seria Familia Winston Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Răzbunarea nu e întotdeauna dulce: Josh Aldridge - Detectiv Particular, #0 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crăciunul lui McNamara: McNamara Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrinderea lui Lily - Fir viu: Familia Winston, #4 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fatum Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Hurricane Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLăcomie Înfrântă: Piesă de teatru & Scenariu de film Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeap of Faith Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsO Muiere Bisericoasa Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mierla Domesticita Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Perfect Choice: Seven Sins Series, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSome Dreams are Worth Keeping Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSchimbarea Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmintiri incomparabile: Ficțiuni umoristice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDare Me Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa fel ca mine: Iubire interzisă, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScarlet Leaf Review Awards: Anthology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMatchmaking With A Mission Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Reporter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Grain Of Truth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPayback Is a Bitch Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPayback Is a Bitch (Josh Aldridge - PI, #0): A Short-Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fat Detective in Love: Eugene Blake Mysteries, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Tempt A Wilde Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPayback Is a Bitch: Josh Aldridge - PI, #0 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Anthologies For You
The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths, and the Stories That Started It All Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mark Twain: Complete Works Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Anonymous Sex Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Search Of Lost Time (All 7 Volumes) (ShandonPress) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spanish Stories/Cuentos Espanoles: A Dual-Language Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kama Sutra (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cleaning the Gold: A Jack Reacher and Will Trent Short Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/550 Great Love Letters You Have To Read (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ariel: The Restored Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Stories from Suffragette City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKink: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Canterbury Tales, the New Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Faking a Murderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5FaceOff Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Galaxy's Isaac Asimov Collection Volume 1: A Compilation from Galaxy Science Fiction Issues Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Best Horror of the Year Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5MatchUp Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Short Story Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Humorous American Short Stories: Selections from Mark Twain, O. Henry, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and more Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Think And Grow Rich Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5100 Great Short Stories: Selections from Poe, London, Twain, Melville, Kipling, Dickens, Joyce and many more Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Scarlet Leaf Review
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Scarlet Leaf Review - Lucian Arthur
SHORT-STORY AWARD
FIRST PRIZE
THE SHADOW
BY LUCIAN ARTHUR
THAT MORNING, HE WOKE up with a sharp gasp and an idea stuck in his mind. He rubbed his eyes with hairy, thick knuckles – a woman once had told him that they seemed to belong to an ape. Then, he just relaxed.
Yeah, why the hell not? It was a good idea, actually, a great idea, after all. He’d strike two flies with the same blow.
The move was smart and long overdue. He’d been thinking a lot about doing something but he was smart enough not to put his neck into the noose. His burning wish was for revenge not suicide.
Energized, he jumped out of bed and went into the small bathroom. Everything around him was skimpy. He had downsized everything since that fatidic morning. Had he downsized more, he’d have vanished completely.
Huh, living off the grid had his perks. No one could trace his moves, and, more than that, no one really knew if he existed. Or to be accurate, no one knew if he still existed anymore.
He started shaving, driving the blade closely to the skin, careful not to leave marks on his face. People remembered a goatee, a shaved skull with a tattoo at the back, and now he managed to move around without shaking any memories loose. No one had seen him like that since he enlisted ten years ago.
He looked at himself in the mirror, and for the first time in the last four months, he could look at himself, into his eyes, without shame or guilt. He finally had a plan.
She had died in that dirty alley, behind the smelly dumpster, rain slapping her face furiously, wind playing with the hair splattered with blood, her lifeless eyes staring at the overcast sky. And while she was dying, crying and probably begging for mercy or help, he was drinking his mind in a bar not far away.
He’d thought he’d have time to reconnect with her and to do all the things he’d put on hold for ten years. He’d thought he deserved a night with friends he’d not seen for too long to dwell on the years that had already passed and to get shitfaced like a stupid teenager in a feat of rebellion.
Choices! In the end, all that was, it was choices. Or mistakes. Or fate. Or the hell knows what. The bottom line was that she had died there because he’d been too bent on drinking beer and boasting like a stupid teenager with the eye only on the moment not on the bigger picture. He had to pay a price in the end but not before the actual killers would pay theirs.
HE ALREADY KNEW THE woman’s schedule. She’d sleep all morning, getting up somewhere after noon, with a raging hangover and pissed off that life would deal her some shitty cards. Then, she would yell a bit at the kids playing in the yard across the street, their yelling cutting like a blade through her numb brain. Then she would start prowling the streets, looking for the next dude able to buy