Carol Marlene Smith

• Sep-2023
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Ruby has Dementia and her daughter is overwhelmed. Alice has a son, Jeremy, who is being influenced by his grandmother's antics. Alice's husband doesn't know what to expect when he gets home anymore. Jeremy is full of questions but keeps most of them...

• Nov-2022
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Brooke is going on an overnight school trip with her grade five class. An out-of-town trip and her mother is not going on this one. Brooke has some tough decisions to make regarding choices. What's right and what's not? Her mother has given her a few...

• Mar-2022
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This book is dedicated to all lovers of the short story. Whether you have hours to read a whole book or are grabbing minutes to maybe just read one at a time, the stories in this book are short reads that you can come back to whenever you have the ti...

• Apr-2015
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It's 1935 and Alice Dunbar is a new teacher. It is her first year in a one-room school. She attends the local dances and has given her heart to a young fisherman named Raymond Sweet. Her journey is long and sometimes turbulent in the small fishing vi...

• Jan-2015
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The little forest band is desperate. They haven't had a hit in years. Things aren't going well and all the band members just keep disagreeing. How can any group even dream of putting together a new hit song, when no one gets along? After an argument ...

• Oct-2014
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Marlee Sweet was in a pickle. And it wouldn't be long before she would want to be eating them! Left Stranded by her boyfriend, Byron Boyd, she was now faced with singing in the band all by herself. The days grew long and weary and finally she could t...

• Aug-2014
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Everyone wanted to know about her. The scariest thing of all was that she also wanted to know. Eve Summers was lost in her own dead mind. All she knew was the day before. Her whole life had disappeared after she woke up in a tiny cabin on a hillside....

• Aug-2014
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Savannah Harris knew she was living on the dangerous side of life when she escaped from her father's mansion and walked the streets of New Orleans. However, she did not realize just how perilous life could get until she met Broderick Blanchard. Drawn...

• May-2014
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A coming of age short story. It was a time of decision making and Marlee Sweet was confused...very confused. Her heart was split between two lovers and it was time to make a choice. Roaming the streets of downtown New Orleans and trying to choose whi...

• Jan-2014
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Angel Walker arrives home to help her Aunt May in her bed and breakfast. Before arriving in the Annapolis Valley, Angel had been scarred by a divorce with an abusive husband. Needless to say, she is a bit skeptical about men. When...

• Nov-2013
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Broderick Blanchard doesn't know what hit him when he wakes up sick. What happens to him after that is an adventure he had never dreamed of. Now living his life as a brand new vampire, he's learning as he goes along. He makes a few mistakes along the...

• Nov-2013
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Eve Summers goes on a weekend trip to find her biological mother. But instead she winds up in a cabin in the woods along with no memory. Things take an interesting turn when Ted Daily, owner of the cabin shows up and Eve tells him that it's h...

• Mar-2013
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Life holds many roads and many choices. In these three short stories, each woman learns a valuable lesson that helps her carry on.Mary Jordan has had a long, full life, but she misses her husband Louis, who is now gone. At 84, hardship has fallen upo...

• Mar-2013
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Marlee Sweet is finally pursuing her dreams of finding lasting love with Joe Fontaine. With her travels and disappointments behind her in the southern states, Marlee returned to Canada to wonder if her dreams would ever come true. After making some ...

• Feb-2013
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At sixteen, Sherry was looking for fun and excitement and she found it when she met local DJ, Jamie Tower. She sneaked around meeting Jamie, unbeknownst to her mother. Sherry was in seventh heaven that long, hot summer, until fall rolled around and s...

• Jul-2012
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When your life's threatened,who do you trust? Everyone looks suspicious... At first it seems to aerobic instructor,Jessica Albright that she may have found love online, when she meets Gary Burke.But just when things are warming up,her new acquaintanc...

• Jul-2012
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Three Short Stories:Denise Snider is deadly set against having children, but when her husband, Ryan, hits thirty, he starts talking kids. Denise finally gives in and tries to get pregnant, which is not as easy as she had hoped it would be. Seeing her...

• Apr-2012
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Angel has been married to Jake for fifteen years and they now have two daughters, but family bliss is about to take a turn for the worse when Jake has a car accident and is killed. Angel and her daughters mourn his passing, but before they have much ...

• Mar-2012
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Marlee Sweet has travelled the south in search of love, only to find heartbreak and the end of her dream. Book two of the Dream Series takes Marlee back to Canada where she stays awhile, but after much turmoil and dissatisfaction, she heads back t...

• Jan-2012
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If you want a nostalgic ride through the sixties, come along with Marlee Sweet as she travels to the southern states on a Trailways bus. Marlee meets Joe in Halifax, Canada and is determined to visit him in his home town of New Orleans. But first...

• Dec-2011
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Three short stories about love and marriage and the ups and downs, ins and outs of a relationship. Some deceit is going on, some boredom is taking place, and some dreams have come to a halt. There is fear involved that comes to a conclusion, and one ...

• Nov-2011
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The disaster itself was called the Big Bump because it was the most severe bump in North American mining history. It was the first major international event to appear in live television broadcasts. The No. 2 colliery was one of the deepest coal mi...

• Nov-2011
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A ChristmasShort Story:Was it a Christmas gift? Jean Bishop was lost and out of work in New York City until one day when she found a coat in a second hand shop. A wondrous change swept over her, and she suddenly felt as if she were now okay and able ...

• Oct-2011
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Who do you believe? Your twin or your boyfriend…and what about promises that never should have been made?Jewell Thurston is crushed when her twin sister Ruby tells her she is carrying Jewell's boyfriend's baby. Eric Finely tells Jewell that...

• Aug-2011
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Short StoryTired of living in a dull world Arlene finally discovers how to have some fun. It's not easy being repressed all the time and this party girl has so much to offer. All she has to do is wiggle herself free from the bonds that hold her. But ...

• Aug-2011
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Aretha Johnston returns to her hometown to attend her mother's funeral. After becoming pregnant many years ago her mother had sent her away. Aretha had never seen her mother again. Now, many years later Aretha is faced with old memories, seeing her b...

• Jul-2011
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Andrea Hopkins considers herself a woman of the world...until she meets Captain John Albert Waymouth. During a freak storm at sea, Andrea discovers things about herself that she long feared admitting. Facing fear and determined to be a better person,...

• Jul-2011
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Katie makes a last minute trip to the mall for a musical birthday candle. But when a late winter blizzard comes up, she is unprepared. Taking a short cut home she finds herself in trouble when freezing rain glazes her windshield and she can't drive o...

• Jul-2011
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(5000 word Short Story)John Lindstrom finds himself in a peck of trouble when he leaves the bar with a hot brunette with violet eyes. He and his girlfriend, Marge have just had another disagreement so John has been drinking his troubles away. But he ...

• Jul-2011
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Destiny draws Cajun artist Nicole Dubois from the sultry Louisiana heat into a freezing Canadian winter, where lawyer, Craig Mckeen is determined to warm things up for her. Craig's former girlfriend, Amanda, plots to send Nicole back where she came f...

• Jul-2011
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Short story.When she was in her twenties she was wild and radical, thinking she was the first to experience the glow of rebellion. The hot axe of youth sliced deep into her convictions. The reality of her generation, her time, moved her and the fire ...

• Jul-2011
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Cub reporter Blaine Orson goes on her first big interview, but she finds a body instead. RCMP constable Roy Archer falls for her innocent- looking beauty but is suspicious too, since the dead man turns out to be her biological father, and she stands ...

• Jun-2011
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A good deed might just lead Angel into a lifetime of rewards. It's been one year since Angel Walker divorced her intolerable husband, James, and one year since Jake Jordan lost his dear wife, Rosaline to a car accident. Now -- twelve years since Ange...