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    Dancing With Silandia
    Dancing With Silandia
    Dancing With Silandia
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    Dancing With Silandia

    By Winnie Winkle

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    The connection teases but the world won't wait.

    Janice, talented, hungry, and poised for more must choose. Stay in the city and figure out how to use her art to sustain her, or run from what her heart desires most. Love becomes a bridge too far for her. Most days, survival is a stretch.

    Bob pulls Janice from the literal brink, convincing her that jumping off the bridge he's building isn't the answer. An unlikely romance roots as two creatives strive to find balance in a city bold with movement.

    Two hearts call while their gifts insist otherwise. Which matters most? Each heart's creative yearning to leave an artistic mark blunts the soul connection blossoming across the separating ocean. Will the drive to create be the passion that pulls them apart?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. S. Netwal
    Release dateApr 12, 2021
    ISBN9798201547202
    Dancing With Silandia
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    Winnie Winkle

    Winnie Winkle is a fabulous Central Florida broad who swills bourbon, likes dogs and cats, and practices yoga, but not with any degree of grace. Supporting live local music is a pretty big deal to Winnie, so if you pass a gravestone that admonishes, 'Go see the band and hit the tip jar', it's probably hers. But, since she's not dead yet, she'll keep penning fun stuff to rock your reading chair. Winnie has lived in Florida for 30 years and splits her time between South Daytona Shores and the Mount Dora area. She prefers writing beach-side as much as she can because, if we’re baring our souls here, the ocean is a mighty muse and there’s only so much that coffee can do. Winnie writes humorous fiction with a new series, "The Record" releasing three titles in 2021 )Boogie Beach, Slat Shaken, Speedo Down). She also released a literary fiction, "To Walk in the World: Twin Tales of Inception in 2021. Winnie also writes (6 books so far)  paranormal and sci-fi romances for the series "The Worlds or Magic, New Mexico".

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      I've never read anything quite like Dancing With Silandia. I found it to be hauntingly beautiful. It's a very short but very powerful story. If you're looking for spice you won't find it here but you will find a story that might stick with you for a while.

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      This story is written in a way I am unfamiliar with. It's obscure, yet enticing. I was pulled in from the very beginning and held captive until the end. It grabbed a piece of my heart and I expect it shall linger for a very long while.

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    Dancing With Silandia - Winnie Winkle

    Dancing with Silandia

    WInnie Winkle

    JS Netwal, Publisher

    © 2019 by Winnie Winkle

    All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

    No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

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    JS Netwal, Publisher

    3408 S. Atlantic Ave., #128

    Daytona Beach Shores, FL 32118

    www.wwinkle.com

    This work was originally published in the anthology Songs of the Gilded Pen Vol. 2: Romance, with all rights remaining with the author, Winnie Winkle, in September, 2019.

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    Contents

    1. Dancing with Silandia

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    Dancing with Silandia

    What are you waiting for?

    Courage, she replied, eyes never leaving the water, hard and grey on the other side of the railing.

    Jumping isn’t the answer.

    I’m not waiting for the courage to jump, I need it to walk away. Hazel eyes met hers and she liked the little smile that said, ‘I get it’ without words.

    Bob Winston.

    Janice Pastore.

    You want to get a cup of coffee, Janice?

    I didn’t bring any cash with me. You know, in case.

    Then I’ll step up and be your caffeine savior.

    The bell jingled, announcing her suicidal reluctance to uninterested patrons. The waitress appeared, inspired in a similar vein, toting the time-killing coffeepot and two limp menus. Janice doctored her coffee, holding off from the inquiry.

    I should not have accepted. Now I’m on the hook for soul-baring and advice I don’t want. Way to careen into the next dump, Janice. He’ll be ghosting within the hour.

    What’s your favorite color?

    Purple, her surprise evident. Yours?

    Grey, but I can explain. There’s a shade of grey that happens just before the sun lights the sky each dawn and after it fades at sunset. It says, ‘there’s more to come’, and ‘you made it through’, in shades of promise and deliverance.

    Are you a poet?

    His easy laugh enveloped her. Only in my mind. I’m an architect. In fact, I’m building the bridge to replace the one you stood on this morning.

    I don’t want to die. This surprised her, both in its truth, and that she shared it at all, but his openness appealed to her sense of fragility. Bob felt as solid as his name.

    We’ve all been in the waver, the point of too many doors locked by futility. I’ve been there.

    She leaned forward and laid her hand on his. What changed? How did you find the answer?

    He turned his hand over, closing hers within it, and smiled, letting her dark eyes and earnestness pull him into her world.

    I picked a door, Janice. Having to choose is freedom. Not choosing was a self-sentence prison. I made a jailbreak.

    She sipped her coffee, leaving her hand in his, enjoying the connection. I fear the door closing behind me and not liking the view. I dream of it, waking queasy, chilled with dread.

    Left standing on a bridge in indecision? Every choice you have is better than choosing to be nothing.

    He sipped, eyes holding hers. What is your joy?

    God, who is this guy? Whatever force of the Universe pushed him onto that bridge, color me grateful.

    I paint when I can. I teach to live, but not well, in a room downtown. It has bugs. They are winning the battle for the building.

    Which doors do you face?

    "The biggest one is quitting the city, leaving to find a job someplace that still offers art,

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