title: Bloggers' Delight: Stories on Love and Redemption
author: Saadia Aschemann
description: I love it, love it, love it! These bloggers know how to tell a story. --Best Selling Author - Nina Foxx&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through poignant and passionate prose, thought-provoking and entertaining words, this book eloquently and intriguingly expels the pains and pleasures of the human experience. --Elissa Gabrielle, author of Good to the Last Drop and upcoming, A Whisper to a Scream&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read these writers stories is like watching a movie. His talent for storytelling vividly puts you in the mind of the characters even as you live the scenes in your imagination. Is this fiction, or real life? --Christopher McCaleb Blessed, Broken &amp; Given Mentoring<br /><br />Love and redemption are the common themes in the new compilation Bloggers' Delight: Volume One from Firefly Publishing and Entertainment (edited by Cedric Harris). In this new short story collection sprinkled with poetry from various artists, readers will find stories of love, breakups, and tales of war (both military and urban). In this anthology written by various writers who also blog, there are a few standout stories, including Diane Dorce's "Smoke," which tells the tale of a young man named Tyrell released from prison early only to face a gangster who wants him dead and a family he never knew. There's also "Rey of Hope" by Cordenia Paige, a story in which many who've known and lost love will relate. Finally, there's my favorite of the book, "Toss-A-Cross" by Torrance Stephens, a dark comedic answer to street lit. It tells the story of a man named Mac who must protect his family and property from wannabee thugs sent by his ex to either scare or do harm. Of the poetry, Saadia Ali Aschemann's work is another worthwhile discovery. Though some of the stories have their problems (telling more than showing, lack of character descriptions, and minor editing issues) Bloggers' Delight: Volume One is still a decent introduction to some up and coming authors as well as an intro to some interesting short story characters that may one day become the focal points of even greater novels. Recommended. --Midwest Book Review<br /><br />To read these writers stories is like watching a movie. His talent for storytelling vividly puts you in the mind of the characters even as you live the scenes in your imagination. Is this fiction, or real life? --Christopher McCaleb Blessed, Broken &amp; Given Mentoring
zlib_text: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  I owe a great debt to the novelist William Haywood Henderson for his close
  reading and insightful comments, and to my colleagues in the Lighthouse
  Writers Master Novel Workshop who gave an early draft much greater attention
  than it deserved.
  
  
  Heartfelt gratitude to Jennifer Carlson for believing in this book; the
  original manuscript gained immeasurably from her thoughtful suggestions.
  
  
  I deeply appreciate Maia Larson for her untiring and often thankless job of
  editing, and the entire production crew at Pegasus Books.
  
  
  Thanks to the Ucross Foundation for the gift of solitude on the rolling plains
  east of Buffalo, Wyoming. Every writer should be so fortunate.
  
  
  My thanks also to Don J. Unser, author of _Sabino’s Map_ , a fascinating oral
  and pictorial history of life in the plaza, for the generosity of his
  conversation.
  
  
  To the Writers Block for providing a desk, a lamp, and the good vibes of other
  writers struggling to pull off the same impossibility with words, th