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This subject matter in this book has expressed my feelings and I would like to share them with you. Domestic Violence is a special cause for me,Some of the poems express that. I would like to help put an insight of the violence that occurs to man, woman, children and animal. This will be an ongoing project of mine for years to come. Poems in this book happen to people on a daily basis and it is written down for you. I hope my poems inspire any and all that are going through the same things. There are poems that are light hearted and fun. There are also some sad ones. I hope they speak to as they have me.

Sixteen year old Samantha Leighton's forearm has become the diary of her woes. The once bubbly teenager has resorted to self-mutilation to cope with the pain stemming from a multitude of hardships that have befallen her. First, she loses her father in a car accident and then her mother becomes addicted to prescription pills and lives in a perpetual state of altered reality. The young girl's life becomes even more complicated when she and her mother are forced to move in with an abusive uncle who is bent on making her life miserable. When Sam ends up in the hospital after a cutting incident that leaves her emotionally and physically weak, she meets twenty-six year old Angela D'Abrue whose idyllic life is turned upside down when her boyfriend abandons her to seek fame on the road with his band. The two women form an unlikely friendship that neither one of them expects to last beyond their short stay in the hospital. The friends are reunited a couple of months later when Samantha turns to Angela for help after fleeing her uncle's home. An astute observation by her young friend forces Angie to rethink her friendship with her best friend, Michael, and she embarks on a journey of self-discovery that leads her to find love in the arms of the one man whose friendship and affection she had taken for granted for so long. While Samantha works on regaining her confidence and her enjoyment of life, Angie faces her biggest challenge when her ex-boyfriend returns. As both friends reach important crossroads in their lives, they learn that kindness can come from the most unexpected places and that no matter how dismal their lives may get, the promise of sunshine is just behind every dark cloud.

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Dark clouds may have silver linings, but storms still leave the landscape irrevocably changed. Interweaving intrigue and love, the stories of Silver Linings follow the lives of those caught up in tempests of government conspiracies, fae court schemings, pack politics, and demi-god manipulations. Through separation and loss, and struggling against unimaginable odds, our characters fight to create their own silver linings, and in the process show that the strength of the heart can endure any storm.In January of 2018 a group of writers came together to build a community founded on the belief that together we can achieve more than any of us could alone. That community became known as the Silver Ink Writers, and is devoted to providing a supportive and creative space for writers and artists to network and grow their skills. Silver Linings is an anthology of short fiction, and is the first collaborative project to come from the group.