Thank you for checking out the cover reveal for the upcoming
release of YA Anthology Light in the Darkness!
Light in the Darkness
Being young is hard, especially with a rough
home life. Not to mention if you have a special ability that sets you apart
from others, leaving you feeling like an outsider, or the freak that no one
understands. Living in the shadows doesn’t have to last forever. Only you can
change the road you're on, just look within yourself and accept who you are.
Once you do, you will find your Light in the Darkness.
Publisher: Ivy
Media Press
Cover Design by
Airicka Phoenix of Airicka’s Mystical Creations
Anthology
Contributors: JP Gibbs, Dennis
Tyler, Emily Piland, Timothy L. Frasier, Will Overby, Tabitha Short, Elizabeth
Loraine, Carlyle Labuschagne, DJ Shaw, Candy Crum, Stacie Wilson and Casey L.
Bond
The e-book version of Light in the Darkness
will release on August 11, 2014. All proceeds from this anthology will be
donated to Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (LIT), a non-profit organization
based in New York.
For your reading pleasure, and to get you ready for the ebook release of this awesome antho, here is an excerpt from my story "Embracing the Gift"
Elsa dragged
Callie back to the dressing rooms to try on costumes. Callie was panicking
until she noticed that Nik didn’t seem to be back there anymore. While Elsa
approached the counter to let the owner know that they were going to be using
one of the dressing rooms, Callie took some deep breaths trying to calm her
nerves.
“Hey there,
beautiful.”
Callie nearly
jumped out of her skin. She’d know that voice anywhere! Nik was standing behind
her. All she had to do was turn around and see if he was talking to her. She
closed her eyes and counted slowly to ten, willing her heart beat to slow down.
There were butterflies the size of Texas fluttering around in her stomach. Did
she really want to know if he was talking to her? How disappointed would she be
if he wasn’t? What would she do if he was?
She was saved
from having to make a decision by her sister waving her over and announcing
that a dressing room was available. She snuck a glance over her shoulder before
she went to meet up with her sister and saw that Nik had moved and was no
longer behind her. Callie noticed that he was talking with another girl from
school. Though she was disappointed, she sighed in relief as she made her way
over to her sister and the waiting dressing room.
“Was Nik talking
to you?!” Elsa demanded when Callie arrived at her destination.
“I’m not sure,”
Callie stammered as she made her way into the dressing room.
Elsa snorted,
“Why didn’t you turn around? What if he had
been talking to you? Now he probably thinks you’re stuck up and want nothing to
do with him!”
Callie shut the
curtain, shutting out the accusing look on her sister’s face, “What would you
have me do, El? If I had turned
around and he had been talking to me,
then what? Would you have me stare at him and stutter over my words trying to
have a conversation with him? Then instead of stuck up he would have thought
that I was mental! No thank you. I’d rather he think me stuck up or aloof than
slow witted.”
Her sister
scoffed, “But then how are you going to make sure he asks you to be his date
for the party?!”
“I’m not, okay?!”
Callie snapped as she pulled the princess top over her head. She looked at her
image in the mirror and finished putting the costume on.
She’d already
decided that she didn’t want to be a princess before she ever opened the
curtain to show her sister.
© Embracing the Gift by DJ Shaw
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