Roses and Thorns

Love is kind. Love is true. It can also be destructive, painful and bitter. Love makes life easier, helps ease burdens and fills the heart with warmth. It can also make life too hard to bear any longer, lead to rash actions and tear families apart. People search for love expecting an endless dream, but, too often, find love can be a nightmare. The stories offered here in this 4th Circle 8 Writers Group anthology explore love at its best and its worst. Each story expresses how strong the force of love is and how it shapes fates. Love can smell sweet or make you bleed, depending on whether you are handed Roses or Thorns.***Some stories contain adult material.***