title: Bella's Rebellion: Short Stories
author:  Ann Stanley 
description: ANN STANLEYS SHORT stories and flash fiction pieces regularly appear in the online literary journal shortfictionbreak.com. Her stories have also been featured in several anthologies. She lives in the high desert of Bend, Oregon, where she hikes, skis, bicycles, gardens, and entertains her two corgis. who fervently believe she should stop writing and spend all waking hours doing their bidding. Despite their wishes, she is hard at work on her first novel. In addition to being a writer, Ann in an accomplished musician. She has performed in a variety of bands and taught flute. She has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, and spent many years researching the spread of HIV. For the past fifteen years, she has also worked as a massage therapist.
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  # The Flame That Burned Us All
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Bella Young
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Copyright © 2020 by Bella Young**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Relay Pal LLC - All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any similarity
  to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  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
  the prior written permission of the copyright holder, except for the use of
  brief quotations in a book review.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [www.bellayoung.com](http://bellayoung.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. [The Hangover](part0003.html#2RHM0-50498666fec94da2b6b49a788ab4d281)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  2\. [I 