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Essence of Humour
‘Essence of Humour’ is a collection of short stories which brings together the best of humour writing from 17 authors across the globe.
Contents
The Hit Man – Chris Cooke
Dear Mrs. Golding – Lorraine Coverley
The Fitting Room – John Malone
Saving Saturday – Arlene Johnson
Fortune Telling With Love Hearts – Paul Warnes
The Substitute – Sarah England
After a While – Peter Lingard
The Marmalade Cat – Raelke Grimmer
The Most Terrible Beast – Khristo Poshtakov
A Test of Friendship – Rosemary J. Kind
The Call Girl – Jaclin Azoulay
The Real Protester – Mel Fawcett
Twinkle, Twinkle – Tracy Fells
Signs – Clive Gresswell
It’s a Dog’s Life – Jackie Tritt
All Talk – Patsy Collins
Bella’s Sparkling Windows – Gill McKinlay
Contents
The Hit Man – Chris Cooke
Dear Mrs. Golding – Lorraine Coverley
The Fitting Room – John Malone
Saving Saturday – Arlene Johnson
Fortune Telling With Love Hearts – Paul Warnes
The Substitute – Sarah England
After a While – Peter Lingard
The Marmalade Cat – Raelke Grimmer
The Most Terrible Beast – Khristo Poshtakov
A Test of Friendship – Rosemary J. Kind
The Call Girl – Jaclin Azoulay
The Real Protester – Mel Fawcett
Twinkle, Twinkle – Tracy Fells
Signs – Clive Gresswell
It’s a Dog’s Life – Jackie Tritt
All Talk – Patsy Collins
Bella’s Sparkling Windows – Gill McKinlay
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First published April 14, 2013
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About the author
Rosemary J. Kind
27 books153 followersRosemary J Kind writes because she has to. You could take almost anything away from her except her pen and paper. Failing to stop after the book that everyone has in them, she has gone on to publish books in both non-fiction and fiction, the latter including novels, humour, short stories and poetry. She also regularly produces magazine articles in a number of areas and writes regularly for the dog press.
As a child she was desolate when at the age of 10 her then teacher would not believe that her poem based on ‘Stig in the Dump’ was her own work and she stopped writing poetry for several years as a result. She was persuaded to continue by the invitation to earn a little extra pocket money by ‘assisting’ others to produce the required poems for English homework!
Always one to spot an opportunity, she started school newspapers and went on to begin providing paid copy to her local newspaper at the age of 16.
For twenty years she followed a traditional business career, before seeing the error of her ways and leaving it all behind to pursue her writing full-time.
She spends her life discussing her plots with the characters in her head and her faithful dogs, who always put the opposing arguments when there are choices to be made.
Always willing to take on challenges that sensible people regard as impossible, she set up the short story download site Alfie Dog Fiction in 2012. During the six years the site ran, she built it to be one of the largest such sites in the world.
Her hobby is developing the Entlebucher Mountain Dog in the UK and when she brought her beloved Alfie back from Belgium he was only the tenth in the country.
She started writing Alfie’s Diary as an internet blog the day Alfie arrived to live with her, intending to continue for a year or two. It has now run for over fifteen years and is repeatedly named as one of the top ten pet blogs in the UK. You can read Alfie’s Diary at www.alfiedog.me.uk
She now lives in Warwickshire with her husband and dogs Alfie, Shadow, Wilma and Aristotle, the latter being Shadow’s wayward son.
She hopes you will enjoy reading her work.
As a child she was desolate when at the age of 10 her then teacher would not believe that her poem based on ‘Stig in the Dump’ was her own work and she stopped writing poetry for several years as a result. She was persuaded to continue by the invitation to earn a little extra pocket money by ‘assisting’ others to produce the required poems for English homework!
Always one to spot an opportunity, she started school newspapers and went on to begin providing paid copy to her local newspaper at the age of 16.
For twenty years she followed a traditional business career, before seeing the error of her ways and leaving it all behind to pursue her writing full-time.
She spends her life discussing her plots with the characters in her head and her faithful dogs, who always put the opposing arguments when there are choices to be made.
Always willing to take on challenges that sensible people regard as impossible, she set up the short story download site Alfie Dog Fiction in 2012. During the six years the site ran, she built it to be one of the largest such sites in the world.
Her hobby is developing the Entlebucher Mountain Dog in the UK and when she brought her beloved Alfie back from Belgium he was only the tenth in the country.
She started writing Alfie’s Diary as an internet blog the day Alfie arrived to live with her, intending to continue for a year or two. It has now run for over fifteen years and is repeatedly named as one of the top ten pet blogs in the UK. You can read Alfie’s Diary at www.alfiedog.me.uk
She now lives in Warwickshire with her husband and dogs Alfie, Shadow, Wilma and Aristotle, the latter being Shadow’s wayward son.
She hopes you will enjoy reading her work.
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May 8, 2015I have a story in this book.
It's great to be included in this collection.
The stories will cheer you up - perfect!
It's great to be included in this collection.
The stories will cheer you up - perfect!
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