title: Story and Its Writer
author: Ann Charters
description: A wonderful compilation of short fiction including: Oates, Chekhov, Borges, Updike, Bierce, Carver, Cheever, and MANY others.
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  # Cursed Opal
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Cardinal Winds: Book Three
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Kathryn Ann Kingsley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [![Kathryn Ann Kingsley](../images/00003.jpeg)
  
  
  ![Kathryn Ann Kingsley](../images/00001.jpeg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2021 by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
  
  
  First Print Edition: January 2021
  
  
  ISBN-13: 979-8-57973-641-3
  
  
  ASIN: B08Q8C65XT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![Author Logo](../images/00002.jpeg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to locales, events, business establishments, or actual
  persons—living or dead—is entirely coincidental.
  
  