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My Dad is My Hero $9.95
(signed copy)

Cindy (C.L.) Beck's story, "A Whap on the Head" is  featured in My Dad is My Hero.

Excerpt:  "Did you hear that noise?” Mom said in a startled voice as she bolted upright in bed. The springs creaked slightly as she turned toward Dad and nudged him with her elbow.

“Uumph.” His eyes remained closed and he breathed heavily, still half-asleep, unaware of the sounds that had seeped into her subconscious and caused alarm.

As she listened, the front screen door closed with a small click that reverberated through the quiet house. Their home had been broken into twice before, but never when they were inside. Mom leaned over Dad and shook him. “Wake up!” she whispered in a restrained hiss, her face blanching white with fear....
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Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors $9.95 (signed copy)

Cindy (C.Lynn) Beck's story, "Dancing in the Moonlight" is featured in Cup of Comfort
for Breast Cancer Survivors.

Excerpt:   I’ve never had breast cancer, but I’d like to tell you the story of someone who has—a woman who not only survived, but eleven years later celebrated her fiftieth wedding anniversary by strolling the sunny plazas of Venice and watching the stars brighten the night sky in Greece. It’s a tale of courage and hope, a story I know well. You see, that stargazer is my mother.

It was early summer, 1995. Mom and I were talking on the phone. After chatting about this and that, she casually said, “They think things look a little suspicious, so they’re keeping an eye on it ....”
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[$1.00 donated to FORCE* for every sale of Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors from this site.]
*Force (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered)


Cup of Comfort for Horse Lovers $9.95 (signed copy)

Cindy (C.L.) Beck's story, "Horse on Lap" is featured in Cup of Comfort for Horse Lovers.

Excerpt:   Sugar was supposed to be my dream horse, but so far she’d been a white nightmare. “You crazy horse,” I chided her when she balked at the sight of a charred cedar post in the fence line. “You’ve been past that blackened pole before, and it hasn’t changed a bit. And it doesn’t have ghosts.”

Sugar snorted and sidestepped, and it felt like I was sitting atop an earthquake. Putting pressure on her ribs with my heel, I encouraged her to walk over to inspect the post. Her muscular body tensed—her ears pricked forward and her neck arched in the bow shape that made Arabians so beautiful—and she refused to budge....
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Life is Like Riding a Unicycle $13.95
(signed copy)

Cindy (C.L.) Beck's story, "Priming the Pump" is featured in Life is Like Riding a Unicycle.

Excerpt:  The fire crackled, ash sifting down onto my hair, waves of heat shimmering as trees spontaneously burst into flame. Click, click, click, I snapped off photos for the newspaper as fast as I could, my face growing hotter by the minute as the fire moved toward me. 

"How long can I stand here before my clothes burst into flames?"
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