Contents

Sweetheart by Kyrena Lynch

Scary Love by Michael Lynes

Forever Touched by Mara Reitsma

Alexa by Jane Risdon

Stay by Karen Hansen

My Mother by Rianne Moss

The Ghosts of Guernica by Dan McAteer

Pipers Hollow by Claire Plaisted

The Pinetree Trail by C A Keith

The Screamers of Valentine Pond by Donna Walo Clancy

Monsters Need Love Too by Pamela Silva

Burying Love by Cathy-Lee Chopping

Raven's Hill: The Ritual by Lynn Mullican

Driven by Elizabeth Horton-Newton

Tell it to The Rose by Mara Reitsma

Sweetheart

By Kyrena Lynch

Whispered words

Of romantic feelings

Emphasised by gifts

Of chocolate and flowers

Signifying the pursuer’s intentions,

Soft kisses and feathered touches

In darkest nights, moon shining

Bright among twinkling stars

As echoes of giggles and laughter

Emerge from under warm

Quilted covers,

Wrinkled hands gleaming with

Golden bands of metal

Clasping a single flower in

Remembrance while tears fall

And sun sets over green

Green lands bearing a tree

And single tombstone.