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    Love The Magician
    Love The Magician
    Love The Magician
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    Love The Magician

    By Pam Crane

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    'Love The Magician' is a collection of nine tales with a twist from short story author Pam Crane.
    'The Elephant in the Room' is a touching story of a girl's discovery and acknowledgement of her autism; 'The Best of Everything' takes us on another uncomfortable journey this time into sexual identity - a theme echoed in the deceptively shocking 'Transit of Pluto.' 'Black Beauty' is not about a Horse but a Hearse! ... with a soul; and a dramatic destiny. There is drama of another kind in 'Deliverance' when Alice comes close to death and is rescued; but the ending is not happy. Neither is it in 'The Box', where a frustrated guest house owner tries to live her dream. 'Christmas Spirits' awakens two young children to unsuspected emotional and spiritual realities, and both 'The Midas Touch' and 'The Knife, the Helmet and the Cross' are full of echoes from history - the first as an old myth comes alive in the present day, the second as a radio interviewee recalls past lives and their impact on the present.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPam Crane
    Release dateApr 28, 2017
    ISBN9781370653478
    Love The Magician
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    Pam Crane

    Pam Crane has been a poet since she was seven years old; it was only when she joined her local Writers' Club that she found she could also write short stories. She has also been a Christian astrologer for most of her life, is well known in that community, and is the author of two books plus many articles in the Astrological Association Journal (for which she compiles the regular Cryptic Crossword.) You can find her website at http://revpamcrane.weebly.com.

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      Love The Magician - Pam Crane

      LOVE THE MAGICIAN

      Nine Tales with a Twist

      by Pam Crane

      Published by Shoestring at Smashwords

      Copyright 2017 Pam Crane

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes:

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook.

      Although it is a free book, it remains the copyrighted property of the author, and therefore may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy at Smashwords.com, where they can also discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      CONTENTS

      The Elephant in the Room

      The Best of Everything

      Black Beauty

      Christmas Spirits

      The Box

      The Knife, the Helmet and the Cross

      Transit of Pluto

      Deliverance

      The Midas Touch

      THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

      I need to get away, she had said.

      Again?

      I can’t stand it here at the moment.

      It had happened before. It was something he had come to accept, even though he couldn’t say in all honesty that he understood. She would spend several days quietly and carefully packing absolute necessities into a small bag and then disappear for up to a week. Her return would be all smiles and hugs and love, and little gifts, and for a while everything would trundle along as near to normal as it ever could. Loving is letting go, a wise friend had once said - and he had loved her for a very long time. He would let her go ... and she would come back. And she would come back this time.

      She had reached screaming point. They had moved to a quiet street in a quiet town; but over the past months she had hardly slept. Every tiny noise in the night was like an explosion in her brain. Every wheel turning in the dark up to a mile away rocked her bed and pulsed through her body until she felt sick. She would stand alone in her room and howl and rage and weep until she slept through exhaustion. She never disturbed him. She had loved him for a very long time.

      Where will you go?

      I shall go to Sweden.

      Why Sweden?

      There is an Ice Hotel. I would like to go there.

      Won’t you have to book?

      I have already booked.

      This was her way. It was always a fait accompli. She would have been brooding for months and then planning for weeks without his knowledge.

      Won’t you be too cold?

      I shall enjoy the cold. And I have a down parka.

      So that was the strange and secret package that came from Amazon last week.

      Let me give you some money, darling.

      I have my card. It’s just a few days. I’ll be fine.

      And she would. He wouldn’t compromise her independence. Instead, he gave her the kiss and the long, long hug that would have to keep him going until she was home again.

      There was never snow like this in England - not now. Everything around her was white. The cold hurt. Her journey had been a physical challenge - too many engines, too many crowds, far too much noise, but now there was this infinity of echoing air, voices like bell notes on a stave of frost, the creak of packed snow under thick boots, and an undulation in the frozen landscape that was her hotel.

      It took her breath away. She hadn’t expected the ice to be so blue! The sky overhead was as deep as lapis lazuli, burnt by the noon sun; the frozen halls that greeted her glimmered with every shade of duck egg, turquoise, soft cobalt and powder blue. The ice pillars bracing the sculpted ceilings were so clear they could be diamond glass; they flashed the ambient light around the carved walls and down snowy corridors and held mysteries in their crystalline depths. Her breath hung on the air.

      Here is your room.

      The soft Swedish voice comforted her. She turned and smiled at the kind attendant.

      Thank you.

      She stepped into her

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