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A Five Year Sentence

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Excerpt from This Too Shall Pass A 5-Year Sentence You had the cancer scare You had it cut out You had treatments You learned how to breathe again You were exercising Being healthy is what you always were Doctor said you have a 10% chance it can come back 5 years is what they told you Let’s count together 1-2-3 So as your friends were dying off From different types of cancer Your mortality was in question You started saying you lived a good life You needed to finish everything you put on your bucket list You were scaring your spouse Where was your faith? A tear ran down your cheek You said, “I have 5 years!” Biography of Patricia A. Saunders Self Published Author, Patricia A. Saunders was born and raised in Connecticut before relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area nearly 23 years ago. She received her Master’s in Management from the University of Phoenix in 2011. After the passing of her mother who had Alzheimer...

Broken Heart

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I sat in the hair salon when a woman handed me her IPad. She clicked on the video and I thought I was watching fake news. There was a car speeding into a crowd, you heard the crash and then it went into reverse. I saw what appeared to be a sneaker being dragged by the fender. In amazement it wasn't fake it was real! As the day unfolded and I looked at the news, social media, and listened to the stories my heart was broken. I as a 52 year old African American woman, who grew up in Connecticut, to parents raised in the South. I felt that what my relatives had endured to make a better life for myself and others was now threatened. That the ignorance of others who don't know their true history is about to have our country go to war with each other.Instead we should be uniting as a country because there is so much change taking place outside of the United States that this is a distraction.  A dangerous distraction. My heart is broken because men and women...

Beautiful makes a stop at Blessed & Curvy

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Creative Expressions Literary Services is pleased to announce Virtual Book Tour for Beautiful by Sylvia Hubbard. The tour will run July 23-August 6, 2017. Publication Date: July 7, 2017 Genre: Romance and Suspense Paperback: 324 pages About the Author Sylvia Hubbard knew she’d wanted to be a writer of romance long before she knew there were black writers in the world. Weaving stories magically as a summer past time to writing stories to get through the humdrum of school, she was able to create something from nothing. Today, she has independently published over 40 books, is the founder of Motown Writers Network and The Michigan Literary Network, CEO of HubBooks Literary Services, runs over five blogs on a variety of subjects, host The Michigan Literary Network Radio Show and is a happily divorced mother of three children in Detroit, Michigan. “I’m no superwoman,” she states with a smile that seems infinite on her lips. “I’m just being an asset in t...