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short love stories
Short love stories are so much like love songs.

All song writers know what they must do: pierce the heart with a melody,
open the wound with a risk, make it hurt so beautifully with the promise
of healing in the ripe emotion to be rewarded -- or lost. The goal for a songwriter is clear: put short love stories in motion.

Thank you for finding me here in the web of the world. It is a web, the world, you know. We are connected by strands spun in the act of lovemaking. Putting aside all errors and all tragedies, we are conceived by two people giving themselves to each other, holding promises. As children we require the richness of these two persons caring for us. The child receives this nourishing as a pure gift. Later, even if that discovery never rises to the level of conscious awareness, the gift of caring wishes to be given again; he will seek to give it. I honor couples that choose to bear children and equally those who revel solely in the thrill of caring for each other in fullness.

The wonderful impulse to love and be loved - to mate - is the human drama. The stories in this book "eyes full of light and laughter" emerged as part of my own act in the drama. I must write about the entangling, fun, heat, peril and joy. When the characters arrive on the page I am enthralled as anyone by what is about to happen. That feeling is my reward.

Which brings me back to my mentioning of 'song' and my intentions with these short love stories. Eventually you will hear more from me on these pages concerning music, song, aria and combination of short love stories and love songs. Namely, opera. It is a subject close to my center.

Once a commentator asked the diminutive but fierce French chanteuse Mireille Mathieu ‘Is this the main thing you want to sing about, love?’ The answer came back at once with serious determination.
“Yes. It is all. It is the most important thing.”

I feel the same. It is the important thing. I have many tales to tell, including some long. For now, it is my time to sing songs on paper that take but a few minutes to read with the hope they resound long.


Thank you for reading my book of short love stories and I hope you will let me know how I'm doing.

John Caedan

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