We look for love and understanding in so many different ways. Through friendship, family, love interests, and even our own self. Our hearts deserve to be found and filled. This collection shows just how meaningful the human bond truly is. The featured authors all celebrate those ties by sharing their experiences, their current situations, or manifesting hopes for the future. Trails of Light has over 200 pages of poetry, prose, and short stories encompassing the portrayed connections we have to others and ourselves, whether that's through love, companionship, mutual respect, hope, wants, or wishes. We want you the reader to share in those experiences and better understand the values we hold dear in others. Know that we all stand beside you in your own light and hope the words within Trails of Light will bring you to celebrate your own unbreakable connections and the good that life and relationships can include. Trails of Light is a collection of 53 writers sharing their voices and experiences of love, relationships, finding oneself, and the good side of any and all of life's connections. FEATURED AUTHORS Sharil Miller, Kelli J Gavin, D.B. Wright, John Sweigert, Brian Berryman, Charlene Fox, Tracey Koehler, Gypsy's Reverie, Margie Watts, Jamie Santomasso, Nicole Carlyon, C. Hage, Michele McKenna, Ann Marie Eleazer, Victoria Corbett, Kathy A. Tatay, Jennifer Jennings Daves, D. Rodgers, Stephanie Mueller, Shawna Olibamoyo, April Y. Spellmeyer, Impassioned Heart, MEL, Lyssa Damon, Sarah Hall, Valerie Leyden-Morffi, Keri Kasame, Emma Gledhill, Whitney Reid, T H Smart, Fiona Van Zyl, Jennifer Torvalson, Jay Long, Jodie Bender S.B., Emily James, Savannah Stover, The Scarlet Widow, Charlene Benoit, Eri Rhodes, C.N. Greer, Avant Avant-Garde, Amy Joy, Debra May Silver, Ruby Jane Prias, Nicole Labonte, Leigh Alison, Molly Astrid Egan (MAE), Eva Coffey, elizabeth, kcl_words, Lorna Husband, Shauna Woodbury, Valerie Mesta, Michelle Schaper