Quick Reads - 18 Coffee Breaks Collection

Quick Reads - 18 Coffee Break Collection

...18 Stories to dip into when you really need a break

A Whisper on the WindTuesdayA day in the life of Eleanor. Just another Tuesday. For some. For Eleanor there will never be another day like this.The Mark of CainA homecoming should be a cause for celebration, but sometimes the truth can be devastating.Coming ForthBring Your Child to Work Day always a disaster. And so no change...
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Quick Reads - 18 Coffee Break Collection

...18 Stories to dip into when you really need a break

A Whisper on the WindTuesdayA day in the life of Eleanor. Just another Tuesday. For some. For Eleanor there will never be another day like this.The Mark of CainA homecoming should be a cause for celebration, but sometimes the truth can be devastating.Coming ForthBring Your Child to Work Day always a disaster. And so no change at Forth Engineering; the good, the bad, and the truly deranged.SolsticeWhen young love crosses the social divide, lives are torn apart. Al that remains is to run. But Fate has a way of tearing plans apart.The SS MilanOn the night of January 13th 1888 the Steamship Milan raced for home the last few miles of its voyage from Alexandria. The captain would get a fat bonus. Others on board had other plans.When the Music StopsOn a Downtown TrainAliyah was four years old when she stood with her mother and watched the Twin Towers come down right in front of them. Every year she rides the downtown train they had taken on that terrible day, and every year the journey becomes harder to bear..Gasoline AlleyThis is the year Johnny Joe Rodriguez will win NASCAR's Xfinity championship. If he can beat Swat, the best driver he's ever seen. And into his world of speed and competition comes a girl to set his pulse racing faster than his red Camaro.Talking Old SoldiersBilly's life is coming to a close, as it must for everyone. But the love of friends made so long ago on a bleak hillside in Korea eases his pain, and together they relive those days of hell and friendship.Leaving on a Jet PlaneJoe Nelson is at the top of his game, the best surgeon in LA. Until he asks himself, Is this all there is? And with that question he steps onto a path that will tear his life apart.A Day in the Life of a Fool - True StoryOn January 23rd, 1822 Reverend William Buckland, Professor of Geology at Oxford University discovered a skeleton in a cave in South Wales. He believed it to be that of a witch from the time when Romans occupied the area. He was wrong.Highway ShoesRoute 50Johnny Diamond was a poker player, one of the best, but now he's walking back to his car in Las Vegas. His life is over. So he drives north to join Route 50, the loneliest highway in America.Ventura HighwayChristina should have been happy, she is 17, beautiful and in LA. But her life is tortured by violence from which there is no hope of rescue. Until she hitches a lift on Ventura Highway to the world of make-believe and dreams.Country RoadsRyan Roe runs moonshine for a living in Kentucky. Fate had given him the love of the sheriff's daughter. The Wild Kid is about to risk everything to save the man who would see him behind bars. Lincoln Highway Ronan McCarthy wants nothing more than a day's work for food and a clean shirt, then to get back on the highway to places he's never been. He is at a crossroads and his decision will shape the rest of his life. Daylight Pass Corpsman Jimmy Levine is driving across Death Valley to get away from the demons that haunt him, when once again he is called on to save another's life. But unlike the men who bled in his arms on the battlefield, this young woman will save him right back.Anarchy3 Bitesize 1-hour reads following our dedicated workers behaving like a troop of monkeys on speed.Checking In It's a mind-numbing day at Global Airlines Lite, until the anarchist Rob discovers the suspect package. Coming ForthThe team puts in another complete hour's work for a day's pay.Hotel CaliforniaAnother day in the life of a 5-star hotel. Anarchy, theft, and madness.