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Welcome to our very irst issue of StoriesRUs Magazine!

PUBLISHER: ADELLA STONE

We couldnt be more excited to have made it to this point.

EDITOR: SARA DAWSON

Please take some time to read our magazine. You can

choose which to read irst. You may want to sit and read
the whole thing at once, or just your favorites.
When we set out to create our magazine we had two things
in mind, helping children with cancer, and helping authors
become published.
What you will ind in the pages of Storiesrus Magazine is
a collection of inspired short stories, novellas, poetry, articles, artwork and much more. All work is written by real,
honest, down-to-earth people who work hard. We are honored to share the work of so many committed and talented
people.
Please visit our website at www.storiesrus. ca and submit
your work for our upcoming March 2016, Edition.
With each published edition, 30% of the proceeds will go
to children ighting cancer. We appreciate your support and
are so happy to have you as a reader of Storiesrus Magazine.
With warmest thanks,
Sara Dawson, Editor

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TURCOTTE
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BOOK 3 IN THE WINNERS SERIES COPYRIGHT MARIE RUTKOSKI 2016

KEEP YOUR
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KIDS CORNER

STORYTIME

COPYRIGHT ELIZABETH ABEL 2015

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TEXT COPYRIGHT 2016 BY MARY POPE OSBORNE

JACKET ART AND INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS COPYRIGHT 2016 SAL MUROCCA

COPYRIGHT JONATHAN AUXIER 2016

COPYRIGHT ELIZABETH ABEL 2016

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ELIZABETH ABEL LIVES IN MONTREAL QUEBEC.
SHE RECENTLY PUBLISHED, "THE FANGHUNTER"
IN THE ONLINE OCTOBER 2015, EDITION OF
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IN 2016, SHE WILL CONTINUE THE GRIM KLAUS
SERIES AND PUBLISH HER STORIES IN OUR
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THE WRITERS HOROSCOPE

BY ADELLA STONE
ARIES: You have imaginaion and passion. Becoming a published author ires your creaive spirit to work hard and accomplish your goal.
TAURUS: Read. Read everything you can. If you write fantasy,
science icion or thriller, read everything in those genres.
Study the authors style. Then start wriing.
GEMINI: Find a secluded space to write. Disconnect the internet and commit to wriing for two hours or more daily.

CANCER: Carry a notebook. Jot down your ideas. You can lose
an idea forever if you dont.

LEO: Be your own criic. Be considerate, but ruthless.

VIRGO: Let your voice be heard and let your story be told.
Never let your passion for wriing fade.

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THE WRITERS HOROSCOPE

BY ADELLA STONE
LIBRA: Youre pumped. You will write a great novel and make
it original, with an exciing plot, great wriing style, and interesing characters.
SCORPIO: Write your story as it needs to be writen. Write it
honestly, and tell it as best you can.

SAGITTARIUS: A criic is your friend, not your rival. Without

the criic, you will not polish your wriing.

CAPRICORN: Your reader needs at least one character he or

she can root for.

AQUARIUS: Being a writer is about being conscious. When

youre conscious and wriing from a place of ease, you have
the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
PISCES: Avoid describing places and things in great detail. You
don't want descripions that bring the acion and low of the
story to a standsill.
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ACROSS
2. Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical
structure.
4. Making a comparison between two unlike things
without using the words like, as, or than
5. An account of someones life
7. The study of myths
8. An artiicial elaborate way of writing or speaking
12. In Poetry, a ______ is a metrical line of verse
15. Conversation between two or more people
17. A ictitious narrative prose
18. The act of describing
19. Describing literature in the form of prose
20. A creator of theory
22. A thing comparable to something
26. Intense feeling of fear
27. A short novel or story
28. Circumstances in which narrative takes place
29. Literature written in verse
30. A poem in English having ten syllables

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1. Artistic composition
3. A person in a novel
6. Prose writing based on facts
9. A section of literary work
10. A biography written from knowledge
11. A person who sufers loss
13. A short piece of writing
14. A lyric poem
16. The main events devised by the writer
21. Two lines of rhyme forming a unit
23. The inal stages of mental sufering
24. Imagining things that are impossible
25. A novel depicting historical or imaginary setting

StoriesRus, the magazine devoted to old and new emerging writers and artists willing to submit their work for an amazing cause.
We will acively champion writers and arists. Your ime and eort went into
the stories and artwork you created. It is our commitment to you to set the
bar high when publishing literary talent such as yours in our upcoming magazine. We will treat you and your work with respect. Our publicaion will encourage old and new writers to submit. Whether its your rst publicaion or
not, we are incredibly honoured you have chosen a home for your story or
artwork in our magazine.
Submit Short Stories, Novella's, and Book Excerpts.
Submit Horror, Fantasy, Science Ficion, Non Ficion, Memoir, Humor, Flash
Ficion, Paranormal, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Teen Ficion, Westerns,
Aricles, Poetry, and Artwork.
Submissions in every category are read by Stories'R' Us sta members. We
won't stop reading just because we've found a good story.
Stories'r'us: Open to stories on all subjects and themes. Simultaneous submissions are welcomed. We're happy to consider stories that have appeared
in an online magazine, on Amazon or self-published. Our contracts are simple
and fair. YOU own your work
Please feel free to submit if paying the fee is not possible. Visit our Guidelines page for full details. No one should be prevented from submiing their
work for not having the funds.
30% of our proceeds go towards selected children with cancer.
Please visit our submit page and support our cause!
www.storiesrus.ca
We look forward to reading your work!
Thank you for supporing our magazine.
Adella Stone
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