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    Nothing To Fear
    Nothing To Fear
    Nothing To Fear
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    Nothing To Fear

    By Tom Dalton

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    This is a small book that contains a series of short stories and verses that explore a range of themes, including loss, grief, loneliness and discrimination. It was collected while the author was working with young people who were experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties. The aim of these was to initiate discussion and also to encourage these young people to use writing as a way to release some of the problems they were carrying.
    Having said this they are also a very interesting read and can assist the reader to understand the thoughts and problems that many young people face on a day to day basis.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Dalton
    Release dateMay 24, 2016
    ISBN9781311391827
    Nothing To Fear
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    Tom Dalton

    Tom Dalton was born and raised in Queensland. He studied his initial Education degree at the North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, he continued his studies at the James Cook University of North Queensland, the University of Newcastle and the University of New England.Tom worked as a classroom teacher for twenty years, a special education teacher for students with emotional and behavioural disorders for nine years and a primary principal for eight years.While working as a special education teacher Tom worked as part of a multi service support team developing programs to support students across a wide range of issues.

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      Nothing To Fear - Tom Dalton

      Nothing to Fear

      Copyright 2013 Thomas Dalton

      Published by Thomas Dalton at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favourite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Lady

      Gone But Not Lost

      Where Have You Gone?

      The House

      Yoki

      The Rock

      The Strike

      About Thomas Dalton

      Other books by Thomas Dalton

      Lady

      Everything was fresh. The morning sun lit up the dew drenched flowers like sparkling jewels. Its warmth caused a light mist to rise off the damp grass. Landing on a rose, hunting silently for breakfast, lady noticed that instead of aphids on the back of the leaves there were bundles of small, almost transparent bubbles.

      Carefully and cautiously she moved closer and examined them. She had never seen anything like them before, yet she felt happy about them being there. A small black dot was caught in the centre of each bubble. She knew they offered no threat and a strange sense of anticipation filled her.

      Each day Lady returned to the leaf and watched these strange new additions to her garden. Each day the black dot grew and became more distinct in shape and form.

      On her eighth visit Lady was surprised to find that instead of a mass of bubbles, she was surrounded by a carpet of crawling, chewing, chomping caterpillars. Her garden was being eaten away in front of her eyes, as she watched.

      Seeing little point in trying to evict her numerous visitors, she landed on one of the few empty spaces left.

      Hello, she said in a soft, delicate voice, "My name's Lady. Who are you?'

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