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    Bumblebee Webs: One Thousand Stories, #1
    Bumblebee Webs: One Thousand Stories, #1
    Bumblebee Webs: One Thousand Stories, #1
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    Bumblebee Webs: One Thousand Stories, #1

    By Jennifer Roush

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    One Thousand Stories delights with fresh short stories, discussion questions for readers and for writers seeking to improve their craft.

    "Bumblebee Webs," the first volume of One Thousand Stories, contains 3 flash fiction pieces, each with their own sets of questions, and each demonstrating unique and memorable characterization.

    We are an old woman at the end of her days, spending an imaginative afternoon with her great-grandson, we are a man cursed with talking like a thesaurus, and we are a teenage girl driven toward romance with her best friend, then driven away again.

    Each story, though short, is immersive, and the questions are thoughtful. And resources for learning techniques used in each volume are available.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSmartyPants Publishing, Inc
    Release dateOct 30, 2018
    ISBN9781386658313
    Bumblebee Webs: One Thousand Stories, #1
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    Jennifer Roush

    Raised on Star Trek, Dune, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Jennifer prefers a good dose of biting social commentary in her speculative fiction, and with such influences as C. S. Friedman and Joan D. Vinge, uses gentle metaphor and a total lack of preachiness to do it. Her complex characters grow through their tense and challenging plots, through settings deliberately chosen to amplify the moral struggles we all face, but always with the assurance that you can kick back, put your feet up, and just enjoy an entertaining, funny, and haunting story if you want. Dedicated to the craft of writing well, Jennifer and her publishing company SmartyPants Publishing, Inc. work to grow authors of all genres who share in the love of a good story well told. To this end, SmartyPants maintains a learning site, critique group, and a host of upcoming projects including novels, anthologies, and a self-publishing and hybrid-publishing forum It is Jennifer’s work in life to not only tell her own stories, but to help other writers tell the stories that need to be told, and to get those stories into the hands of anyone who wants them. Good stories, well told, and distributed across the globe. Thank you for taking the time to get to know Jennifer! If you would like to contact Jennifer directly, she is available at: editor@smartypantspublishers.com If you would like to contact SmartyPants Publishing, it is available at: www.smartypantspublishers.com

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      Bumblebee Webs - Jennifer Roush

      Bumblebee Webs

      One Thousand Stories, Volume 1

      Jennifer Roush

      Published by SmartyPants Publishing, Inc, 2018.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      BUMBLEBEE WEBS

      First edition. October 30, 2018.

      Copyright © 2018 Jennifer Roush.

      ISBN: 978-1386658313

      Written by Jennifer Roush.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Preface to One Thousand Stories

      Bumblebee Webs

      Death Wish

      Friends

      Thank You

      Sign up for Jennifer Roush's Mailing List

      Also By Jennifer Roush

      About the Author

      About the Publisher

      Preface to One Thousand Stories

      One Thousand Stories is a collection of short fiction. Short stories appear in their entirety in this series, and in cases where the fiction is very, very short (such as flash fiction), more than one story is presented here.

      For each story, we supply questions for readers and for writers. At the end of the volume, we will supply links to more stories and

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