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◊ " Sharing my Books, My Faith, My Stories, Thoughts and Poetry on line,
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A Hebrew Christian Site
Were you aware that a phrase or this entire website can be translated
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Alphabetical
Listings PROSE " 'A' is for Amos, 'Be' Is Something You are, and 'C' is for Crystal Springs " " A Bethlehem Hill " " A Call to <Loving> Arms " " A Cord of Three Strands " " A Country Homecoming " " Ahava " " A Man called Isaac " " America's Child " " American Mines Collection " Volume I ' American Mines Collection " Volume II "Anamosa " " Anna Rebeka and the Winds of Marchand " " A Son to war : Letters to GOD From a Quiet Spirit on the Home Front " " Andrew's Gift: Return to Tall Fire's Island " " A Necessary Portal " " Antietam to a National Anthem " " Apple Annie " " A Shadow of a Doubt " " Autumn of Speckled Bird " " Avid " " Before This, I was " " Big Frank's Baby " " By Shadows on The Wall " " By The Edge of the Sea " " Cache " " Call Me Ishmael " " Casting Shadows " " Celery the Dragon and His Search for the 'Majic Griffon' " " Dancing Around the Edges " " Devil's Paradise, California " " Echoes of a Distant Summer " " Eighty Pages of Sunshine " " Every Ending is a Beginning " " Fires in The Night Sky " " Forty Days in Zion " " Full Circle " Gethsemane Speaks " Heaven's Gate " " In Touch With An Angel " " In The Belly of Jonah's Whale " " Indian Summer " " It Goes Without Saying " " Jack Phillps " " Laura's House " " Let GOD Be Their Judge " Vol. 1 " Mae Rooney " " Majesty, Lion of Judah " Vol. I " Majesty, Lion of Judah " Vol. II " Majesty, Lion of Judah " Vol. III " Majesty " ~ The Book " Many a Long Mile " " My Name is Letti, and that Rhymes with SETI ... " " My Summer's View of Santa Leoma` " " Mystery at Summer's Cove " " Mystery at Tall Fire's Island " " Mystery at Wolf Creek Canyon " " My Uncle Greer " " Nature of the Beast " " Paper Doll family and Sons " " Phoenix Rising " " Pretty Thoughts Stuck Together Like Cloth " " Promise of the Father " " Rachel's Journey " " Rancho Pacifica " " Redless " " Remembering Fiona " " September Strawberries " " Seuss and Baylie " " Seven Sisters " " Shaddle Junction " [under publishing contract until
2016] " Shasta " " Son of a Gamboling Man " " Shoshone, the Story of Grace " " Silver Wolf " " Soldier's Heart " " Spring Rayne " " Stands Alone, The Story of Winterhawk Larkin " " Stands By The Shoulder " " Suddenly American " " Such Sun As There Was " " Sumner Hidalgo " " The Challenges of Growing Old Gracefully " " The Coast Road " " The Dark Knight " " The Death of Love is Haight " " The Empty Cross " " The Faces of Christmas " " The Lookingglass Heart " " The Matchmaker's delight " " The Price of a Dream Is a Piece of Your Soul " Volume I " The Price of a Dream Is a Piece of Your Soul " Volume II The Rhode Island Mystery Series " The Rice Paper Tower " " The Seven Soups Kitchen " " The Shopping Mall Santa and the Girl With With Red Hair and Freckles " " The Twelve Faces of Christmas " " The Youngest Child Always Stirs the Gravy " " Tres Dias, Three Days " Man Woman Infinity " This Moment in Time " " Thru Wolf Eyes " " Trouble is Just Fiber For the Soul " " Up to Jerusalem " " Voices " " When My Journey Ends, My JOurney Begins " " Winter Wheat " " Wolf crossing " " Wrath of the gods " " You Can't Walk On a Tub Full Of Soap Bubbles "  Alphabetical Listings Poetry
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THURSDAY, MAY 17th, 2012 Dear Ones, My modem has
gone out and I cannot replace it until Tuesday afternoon. Please be patient with me. I am continuing to write - off
line - and I will upload all of the new work on "Witch's Brew" and the 1500 WORD stories as soon as the new modem
is installed. THANK YOU - Asia R. Cohen
I spent a
lot of time in my youth listening to 'the Old Folks' talk, now I 'r' one. I remember thinking how different their
stories were from the movies or textbooks I had available to me and I promised myself that when I grew old I'd sit down
and tell my past in the same way. Here then, are my stories .
A.R. Koheen
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| The Greatest Love Story ~ ever told out of context |
The Majesty, Lion of Judah Collection
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Messianic Jewish Novel of Jesus of Nazareth ♣ 1500 WORD STORIES
PROSE
AMERICANA * AMERICAN Civil War Era *
Children's
Imagination Destination *
POST- AMERICAN CIVIL WAR * The Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series [In sequencial order] “ [Shaddle Junction] under contract until 2016
TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY *
THE
WILSON YEARS *
THE HARDING YEARS * THE HOOVER YEARS * THE FDR YEARS * * THE 1960'S
[Man, Woman and Infinity] ◊ The Kimmy Steven's
Orca Island Mystery Series ◊ Other Natural Science Adventure Novels
* THE1970'S * THE 1980'S * THE 1990'S
* THE MILLENNIUM DECADE * 2012 * THE PRESENT " Witch's
Brew " ` A Sue Williams Mystery * THE FUTURE * UNSTATED *
Trouble is not an option - how you deal with it is!
POETRY
 A MAGGID is a story teller, who goes from place to place,
recounting stories to encourage and inspire others to be the Best they can be in the midst of life's most challenging
circumstances. To help then understand and endure the struggles that came into each life. Which will you choose to be when your life is the most difficult? ◊
Alaska
" Heaven's Gate " ~ 1500 Word Story Gary and
Lois spend their honeymoon on the side of a glacier near Mount McKinley Alaska. He wants her to learn to love the land as
much as he does. ◊
Appalachia
" 2006, The Year of the Cat " ~ Novel An elderly man walks
out of the Back Woods where he has spent over sixty years since his young mother and a group of world-weary neighbors in the
hollow followed the charismatic Preacher Man into 'the untouched wilderness' to 'live pure'. Since he is now
the last member left alive, he returns to the Outer World with courage, honor, and a different way of looking at things as
his only living relative discovers as she attempts to put her life back together after a ruinous divorce while attempting
to help something else that used to live in the deep woods in abundance...the red Puma. Only to discover the truth of an ancient
Chinese proverb - 'The hands that gives the gift of a rose retains some of the fragrance of the flower in its best bloom!
' " Echoes of a Distant Summer " ~ Short Story A Gentle Love Story asking the question:
" Do you go with the known or risk taking a chance on the possibility of something better thay may - or may not - come
true? " How do you find your way when love 'finds' you? A young woman struggles with seeking a definition for herself
outside of the unpleasantness’ she grew up with in her parent's thirty-five year marriage of bickering and acrimony,
yet finds herself attempting to fit the very roles she hates once 'love' enters her life. The story of two lives that touch
in a meaningful, if somewhat unusual manner in the Summer of '67 ◊
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The Big Sky Country
" Big Frank's Baby " ~ Short Story As a
young woman nervously awaits meeting her future in-laws she shares something of life story with her soon-to-be brother-in-law
about the unique demands of growing up as the only child of a former chief-of-police in a very small Wyoming
town. " Cache " ~ Novel A Montana
Rancher's daughter is caught in the middle as her divorced father breaks up with his long term girl friend just as she needs
a woman to share with. She finds an unlikely but kindred spirit in the mother of a teen aged boy who committed suicide who
brings his horse to their ranch to complete his training, in the hopes of finding some sense of closure to the unthinkable
horror of his impulsive act. " You Can't Walk Across a Tub Full of Soap Bubbles " ~ 1500 WORD Story A
Widower who makes his living as a rodeo clown discovers that his sixteen-year-old-daughter is dying of the same rare genetic
disease that killed her mother! Sometimes, it's the young who have to lead the way! ◊
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" Eighty Pages of Sunshine " ~ Novel An original
novella loosely based onmy acquiring my first apartment in Capitola-by-The-Sea, California shortly after The Summer of Love,
1967 " Full Circle " ~ Novel A
Brother John Carbasian Mystery ~ Continuing his full time ministry to US Vets who are homeless on the streets of San Francisco
as they struggle to find their way in civilian life, Brother John is confronted on several levels at once, leading him to
his home village in Lebanon while escorting a group of young street boys in conjunction with the Catholic Diocese journey
to the Holy Land, returning in new strength only to discover what he left behind has grown into a full blown explosion in
his absence! " In The Belly of Jonah's Whale " ~ Novel A Brother
John Carbasian Mystery ~ A potenially damaging, missing piece of evidence linked to the
1967 "Blue Smiler Murders" shows up in the possession of a homeless Viet Nam Vet who's suicide within hours of the
discovery appears to be linked to the investigation - although another man has already died in an insane asylum charged for
the murders of would-be hippies who smiled themselves to dead. In an inebriated state, he makes a remark that mightbe
construed as implicating Al Hoag's then teen-aged son, the nephew of the man accused of the original murders. Brother
John already has good reason to mistrust Matthew Allen Lovich - as does his new little wife Gabby - but will Life
allow him to 'leave well enough alone' and simply hope for the best? When did it ever? " My Summer's View of Santa Leoma` " ~ Teen Novel Chicago
born twins marred twin sisters and shared a life as an extended family until one is offered the opportunity to build a run
and Sea Mammal Research and Rescue mission across the country in California. They deal with internal changes from the move
as well as being only the second Black family in the coastal resort town. Their lanlord is a mentallyu retard man who tke
special interest in their one-hundred anad three year old Grandma, the child of slaves in a touching show that you don't have
to be mainstream to be in the flow! " Phoenix Rising " ~ Novel The Abigail Merrick Mystery
Series, " By The Edge of the Sea" ~ As a happily married woman raising her own family in the shame-cursed
mansion sea captain Edwin Merrick built from his fortunes in the Golden Triangle, Abby and Johnny's world is sent upside down
by the earthquake in nearby San Francisco and the shocking revelation of the final unanswered murders as the past is unshackled
and shaken violently by current events. In the end, love wins, but that doesn't lessen the degree of the struggle or the pain
left in its shocking aftermath! " Voices " ~ Novel The Abigail
Merrick Mystery Series The appearance of yet anothercharming but questional
memeber of the duPree's of New Orleans awakens the tender heart of Miss Abigail to yet another impulsive quest for
love, honor, dignity and hope for others less fortunate than herseld whent he murder of a family servant committed half a
continent away is linked to the bizarre disapparence of the local newspaper publisher andMrs, Jeffries, the head
housekeeper at the ill fated mansion yet again! " Wrath of the gods " The Abigail Merrick Mystery Series ~
Though a proper woman of her era, the easily overlooked Miss Abigail Merrick, the spinster mistress of the Merrick fortunes
and haunted estate at the top of the cliff. is as much of an enigma as the bloody and mysterious past which spawned her. Supplementing
her modest annual income and her insatiable appetite for life as the fullest available to her as a lady, Abigail secretly
writes detailed and intricate novels with spine-tinging thoroughness under the name "Red Adar" until the day
a real murderer unwisely unmasks her pseudonym and triggers an avalance of circumstance that carries her through three separate
adventures, moving from the lonely but sharp eyed woman to a loving mother and armature sleuth at her city detective's side,
while remaining, of course, every bit as much a a lady as she was born! ◊
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East Coast
" Many a Long Mile " ~ 1500 WORD Story On the way home from an award's ceremony an aging woman writer reflects on
the changes since she first began to struggle to get published,a nd how the human spirit throeves when "Anyone Can Dream"!
" Suddenly American " ~ 1500 WORD Story An
elderly woman in New York City remembers a dream in which her past, present and future combine in a lovely image of innocence.
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Middle America - " Antietam to a National Anthem " ~ Novella The Harkness
family Chronicles tells the story of one Middle America family in one homestead through five generations. This
is the story of Woodrow Harkness, the patriarch, newly returned from the horrors of War, who brings his new life and
her teen aged son from another marriage into the heart of the wilderness to build them a home that will last for generations
of peace in the New Union.
" A Son to War : Letters to GOD From a Quiet Spirit on
the Home Front " ~ Novel [Published 1999, Star of Bethlehem Press]
The Harkness family Chronicles tells the story of one Middle America family in one homestead through five generations,
told in a series of letter from Amos Webb to GOD.
" Avid " ~ Novel The
Harkness family Chronicles tells the story of one Middle America family in one homestead through five generations, told in
a series of letters from Maude Amy Webb, Woodrow Harkness granddaughter, to GOD. She is seeking a faithful gift
and mementoos to give her grown children as she faces her death and all the joy they have given her in life. " A Country Homecoming " ~ Novel The Harkness family Chronicles tells the story of one Middle America family in one homestead through five generations,
told in a series of letter from Amos Webb to GOD.The War in Europe and the Pacific has ended, but the past is never far
away in this rural town, A one hundred year old Black Judge returns tot he Homestead to ask Amos' permission to die where
his earliest memories begin, the cabin out in the Meadow the Brother built. With Vernon Emmett is his deaf granddaughter,
an unfulfilled dream to find his mother's unmarked grave and bury her properly, and a clue to the past some people in
town would rather keep buries under a hundred years of dust! " America's Child " ~ Novella The Harkness family Chronicles tells the story of one Middle America family in one homestead through five generations,
told in a series of letter from Amos Webb to GOD.Richard "Beau" Webb, the middle son of Amos and Maude Amy
Webb finally got his wish to 'see war' like his two older brothers by flying combat photography missions after bombing raids
to assess the damage. But when he falls in love and marries a Korean girl, attempting to 'smuggle' her to his
parent's isolated farm until the Laws change, he sets about a horrific chain-reaction of events in which she is attacked
and left pregnant. When she cannot accept the shame, he goes to Korea and bring 'his' daughter home, raising her with love,
honor, and lots'a, lots'a hard work on the family Homestead. As a grown woman she fights with the rest of her family to keep
the Farm alive and operational! Told in a series of emails. " 'A' is for Amos,'Be' Is Something You are, and 'C' is for Crystal Springs " ~
Novel The Harkness family Chronicles tells the story of one Middle America family in one homestead
through five generations. The story ends with the oldest boy's son and his young wife who are struggling to keep the
family farm alive int he world of mega-farms owned by corporations through the first year of their twin's lives. Also told
in a series of letters, the story format. " Dancing Around the Edges " ~ 1500 WORD STORY On
a warm summer's night in Wisconsin, a young, motherless girl is accompanied to her first boy-girl dance by her father
and discovers that being a girl isn't as bad as her four brothers tried to make it out to be! " Pretty Bits of Thought Stuck Together Like Cloth " - 1500 WORD STORY
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Nevada
" Anaosma " ~ The Story of White Fawn
- Novel With the passing of ninety-seven year old lawman, Paul
Lee McWhorter, the life at the ranch he built above the deserts at Lake Lohotan to preseve the site sacred to the
People for thousands of years remained unchanged -outwardly - as it passed to the next generation, but the world of 1917 has
a little in common the life he lived in the years of social change and upheaval after the American Civil War as his Miwuk
granddaughter's life has in common with her beloved grandmother Speckled Bird, the mother of Paul's McWhorter's only child,
Spring Rayne. " Mystery at Wolf Creek Canyon " ~ Novel Saving the Sand Dune
Mustangs of Nevada Stephie Rodger's and her best friend Cherish come from
very different backgrounds, but they share a love for the wild mustangs living on the reservation, managed by Stephie's parents.
Her Dad's younger brother returns home from the war, wounded mentally and physically, but as they help an injured mustang
find a reason to live, he returns the favor in unexpected ways! ◊
New England
" A Face in the Crowd " ~ A Maine Maritine
Mystery Novel Don and Babs Cochran of Brochie, Maine, are looking forward to retiring and simply living
on board their restored ship with no greater concern that which fish to cook for dinner, but the abrupt arrival of their grandson,
bloodied, scratched and apparently suffering from amnesia puts those plans on hold until they can discover where hes been
and what really happened in the seventy-two hors before the accident? " Shadow of a Doubt " ~ Short Story
. Murtha Monroe, a forty-two year old widow with two young sons who owns a prosperous Bed and Breakfast until a murder takes
place there - then SHE is treated with as much suspicion as the illusive stranger no one saw except her! - " When My Journey Ends, My Journey Begins "
~ Short Story The gentle short story
of a woman who is allowed to share the Life she's enjoyed and enjoy the life she's earned. Part of "Increments of Infinity"
Collection.. ◊
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The Northwest " Andrew's Gift: Return to Tall Fire's Island " ~ Teen Novel The Second
of three Kimmy Steven's San Juan Island trilogy. Grandfather Andrew Talbot has set up a circuitous inheritance claim tot he
disputed Island after his oldest grandson marries the only daughter of his chief rival. It is his intention merely to black
Lisa van Dantz from marrying Paul Talbot SIMPLY to claim her 'lost inheritance' But he dies before he can complete his
plan, his will giving thirteen year old Kimmy Stevens ownership of the Island! Costing her the friendship of the very people
she depends upon, for her love of the Island and its unique creatures, she finds the means to do what "Mad" Millard
and Andrew could never do! " Mystery at Summer's Cove " ~ Teen Novel The 3rd
of 3 Kimmy Steven's Natural Science and Adventure books on a mysterious, twin peaked Island, half-wild, half-domesticated
as she discovers other members of the enduring aclaephs who's presense has haunted Native American and Anglo alike for centuries.
She must try to convience the two boys whose mother was killed by a wild member of the Moon Bladder Jellyfish to save it's
life, to keep the species alive in a world where it no longer exits anywhere else. Why> Why would one matter?
" Mystery at Tall Fire's Island " ~ Teen Novel The 1st
of 3 Kimmy Steven's Natural Science and Adventure books on a mysterious, twin peaked Island, half-wild, half-domesticated where
she discovers the enduring aclaephs who's presence has haunted Native American and Anglo alike for centuries. When her
mother, Dr. Jillian Aldo agrees to marry the man also claiming the Island from her Native American friends, Jillian becomes
the next target for a mysterious phenomenon which occurs once every fifteen years in which the other from BOTH families is
dead on the shores of a tranquil lagoon the wild half of the Island! Kimmy is only 12 and her mother is determined to witness
the mysterious migration of every adult member of the Spiny Urchins who guard the lagoon, how can she make her Mom see the
danger she's in?
" My Uncle Greer "~ B'twixt Novel A twelve year old with asthma who dreams of being
an astronaut spends her summers with her distinctly 'different' Uncle, her mother's younger brother. A world class painter
and sculptor he is nonetheless looked down on by the rest of the family. In discovering the value of his 'uniqueness' she
finds a lesson about the power of walking to the beat of your drummer. .
" Shoshone, the Story of Grace " ~ Novel Some people
walk alone in the midst of a crowd, but when your a teen aged girl whose been used by her mother's boyfriend nothing can be
more isolating than to be shipped away school and all your friends at the most critical and unexpected juncture in your life,
forced to accompany your Mom, whose still secretly in love with the creep and have to move to a wilderness mountain dude ranch
with your father's twin's widow! It only becomes bearable as Shoshone attempts to sort out her feelings in the world which
her father and his twin rejected at her age when an old Indian man known as Winterhawk Larkin calls her 'Granddaughter'
and begins to reveal hidden strengths in the Old Ways she never guessed could apply to her in her modern predicament. The
fact that he may - or may not - be a ghost becomes secondary to what he has to teach her in the time left to them before the
baby arrives! " Stands Alone, The Story of Winterhawk Larkin " ~ Novel In a tribe decimated by sickness, the Old Ways take on an additional weight as they struggle to survive
against desperate odds. But when their best young hunter is tricked into leaving his family for good on a
non-existent quest by a vengeful Medicine Man, it is the beginning of a strange, life-long journey for the boy known as Kills
With a Knife as he encounters Spanish settlers and a dying gun-hawk bent on revenge against a man of his long-missing father's
tribe before death cheats him of his final revenge, and together, they form an unlikely alliance that does good beyond their
lifetimes! " Silver Wolf " ~ Novella Who
am I? What am I? I live in trailer court even the Anglos avoid if possible, my native language lodged with my stubborn old
grandmother who won't bend to the White Eyes ways so my mother has to 'keep her safe' in a closed residential place
because she won't share our lives. "Not Indian." But in my dreams my spirit ranges far and wide, shadowed by a silver
wolf who will neither abandon nor approach me as I sense there has to be something more ahead than the Army, a high
school diploma, or my mother's beloved soap operas. But how am I to ever know? Unless...Unless...I dare to slip into the wilderness
reserves far beyond the control of the brown shirt Rangers for a Spirit Quest? Is that dumb...or what? ...In my dreams the
Wolf comes to me and says "If you do not seek me, I will seek you out until one of us is no more! "
Why? Who am I? What am I? I live in trailer court even the Anglos avoid if possible, my native language lodged with my stubborn
old grandmother who won't bend to the White Eyes ways...unless.... " The Second Christmas Angel " ~ Short Story Regrettably, in attempting to blend two families. the traditions that held so much value before
the marriage broke break-up have to be re-woven or exchanged for a new shared reality. Like a beloved
Christmas ornament that can only go with ONE SIDE of the divorce, where a second and equally meaningful
symbol has to be shaped and allowed to takes its place, in its own right! " The Shopping Mall Santa and the Little Girl With Red Hair and Freckles " ~ 1500 WORD STORY from the " The Twelve Faces of Christmas " Prose Collection. Four stories dealing with the December
Holidays in America in ascending order of the number of pages. 1-2-3-9 where each of the four stories is interrelated.
What would happen if an innocent little girl believed you were the REAL Santa? It might just give you back
yourfaith in the Big Guy! Foiund in "The Twelve Faces of Christmas" Collection " Tom's Turkeys " ~ Short Story From the " The Twelve Faces of Christmas " Prose Collection.
Four stories dealing with the December Holidays in America in ascending order of the number of pages. 1-2-3-9 where
each of the four stories is interrelated. Tom Andrews is deeply offended when his son's National Guard Unit is reassigned
an extra six months in Afghanistan after he'd counted on having Danny home for the holidays. This is forcing him to hire extra
help from the Mission to care for the extra pullets he bought, expecting to share the time and get reacquainted with his son,
whose fearing PTSD is creeping up on him. It takes the special night at the Mission to help to see that caring for the rights
of others is the best way to keep oneself intact! ◊
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Ozarks . " Casting Shadows " ~ Novel On the brink of 9/11/2001, a middle-aged widow finds the strength to put aside her grief
and step back into life as she explores her childhood home, now up for sale, as if she were simply a potential buyer; encountering
out of date images from her childhood so real they cast shadows! Sometimes Life takes a step back and allows
us to catch us our breath...and sometimes...it comes at us with the speed of an express train . . ◊
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The South - " By Shadows on the Wall " ~ 1500 WORD Story - A young Quaker boy who went
to war during the American Civil War over his family's objections returns to find the changes in the family rent apart by
struggle. " My Name is Letti, and that Rhymes with SETI and He Was a Great King Too
" ~ Short Story In the years just following the American Civil War two very different Black girls from very different backgrounds
come together to send a summer on an all-Black Island in South Carolina that will profoundly change the course of
their lives. " Paper Doll Family and Sons " ~ Short Story circa
2005 Darla Farrell is an ambitious, young Creole woman in New Orleans,
soon to enroll in a course as an Emergency Medical Technician. Her ten-year-old brother has been living
with her while their mom, Rita Reynolds, lives and works in Chicago to save up enough money to get an home there for
herself and Zack. The love of their family kept them strong. Through all their struggles, even when her second husband
was killed by being at the wrong place at the wrong time. The owner’s great-niece Ellyn Miranda has just completed
a three-year RN course and taken over Darla's place of employment, trying to force her to quit so she can bring
in her two nieces and train them as nurse’s aides "herself"; having a low opinion of
‘certified Nursing Attendants’. But the last week of August, 2005 turns
the world turns upside down for all of them as they wait for hurricane Katrina to made landfall a second time, having
strengthened to the fourth ever Category Five hurricane over the warmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico. By eight a.m.
on the on August 29th, the water could be seen rising on both sides of the Industrial Canal in New Orleans. But when
the air cleared and the actual storm had passed, leaving the neighborhood relatively unscathed, they all breathed a sigh of
relief, and it seemed all the warnings of impending doom had been anticlimactic. Then the levees gave way under the storm
surge and hell turned out to be in mud and salt water rather than brimstone and fire! Alone
in the two-story house with the waters rising and no one else to help her with four fragile and elderly people in her care,
the young woman finds herself challenged in ways she could never have foreseen or remotely imagined! As they struggle against
despair and the debris of shattered lives and house waiting for help that might not even come in time! " Redless " ~ Short Story A short story of faith and action in Post Civil War America. Dtermined to make
a newlife for himself- and the people who served his family so faithfully, ninteen year old "Reckless" Walker left
his family home to the carpetbaggers who 'caimed' it. Digging up the treasured family silver, and offering a new life
to anyone, regardless of color, who wanted to take what was rightfully theirs and leave with him to go West. But he is stricken
down shortly after their arrival and the price of keeping the Community and 'Redless'' dream alive falls ont he shoulders
of a quiet spoke Black woman of middle to indeterminate age, Fanny Walker. Guessing at the real reason behind the
yound soldier's change of cheart she will nopt let his dream die too as long as their is breath in her amble body! " Such Sun As There Was " ~ 1500 WORD Story A young girl in rural Arkansas,1943,sees a plane crash of a Natzi spy - so she thinks " The 'Seven Soups' Kitchen " ~ Short Story
In the mid-1980's, a married woman has just escaped from a cult as it moves to a new city and State
to escape prosecution, and she stays with a shelter for three months – the maximum time allowed – while she gets
her feet back under her. But her thirteen-year-old son refuses to leave his father figure, the leader of the Cult, and come
out with her. She's deeply concerned about how this will effect his view of life when he's grown...and she isn't willing to
just leave him behind too! " Trouble is Just Fibre for the Soul " ~ 15OO WORD STORY A Tennessee woman woman volunteering at her local homeless shelter discovers that a helping hand clasps just as tightly
both ways! ◊
The Old West - " Autumn of Speckled Bird " ~ Novel Taking his family to
witness the historic union of the Eastern and Western railroads uniting the frontier into one nation, Paul Lee McWhorter
was confronted by a woman who was clearly the child of his youthful Sweetheart, claiming that he was her father, having shamed
the woman he stills loves. And through she avoided him assiduously until her death, he felt impelled to attempt to recuse
her from her kidnappers. She has succeeded in her warped and mistaken revenge, but his cloest friends aren't ready to
give up on him in 'The Autumn of Speckled Bird!' - " Call Me Ishmael " ~ Novel A
wounded veteran of the fight for Southern autonomy discovers a murdered Indian couple with a newborn baby clutched in
the young mother's arms. To attempt to heal the wounds still raging within, he takes the infant and raises him as
his own son on his parent's land. When Ishmael turns sixteen, he is confronted with the murders of both sets of his parents
and he uses his innate gifts and everything he has learned at Jack Hennessey's side so that his newborn son
has the right to live on his ancestral lands in freedom and peace!
" Devil's Paradise, California " ~ Novel The Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ Paul
McWhorter, Luke Cole and Manuel Gonzales were a part of Becka Fosse’s life for as long as she could remember. When she was
ten years old and her Texas Ranger father was killed by a deranged rancher who’s shot and killed his wife and best friend
in the delusion they were having an affair behind his back, Paul put her up on the bedroll tied at the back of his patient
dun’s saddle, told her to duck as he swung his leg over the top of the broad backed mustang to mount up and ride away,
and she’d been with him and Luke Cole ever since. Manolito was the orphan of an outlaw, apparently a couple of years
younger than herself, who’d simply wandered into their camp one night, dazed, bloodied, unable to speak about the tragedy,
but he could cook better tortillas and range-tough beef than either of the two grown men; when no one claimed him, he was
simply given his own horse at the next town and they’d became inseparable. As elder statesman of their little group, Paul McWhorter had always made it clear that on the day
after her eighteenth birthday, if he was still alive at seventy, a scant three weeks after that, he would retire from
enforcing the Law, but on that day she was to catch the nearest stage and ride Back East to claim her late father’s
inheritance. Like Luke Cole’s constant lament that one day he would find a good woman with a small spread and bust cows instead of heads, it always seemed dreamlike,
and never near enough to happen in reality-until the day Luke met his match in the Widow Perry and he shook hands with Paul
and Manolito but oddly ignored her gamely struck forth hand to pull her into a disgusting ‘womanly’ embrace that
turned her world upside down
as she rode out behind the leather tough Lawman and the oddly grinning black haired imp who knew how to cipher better than
she did as she approached her three hundred and sixty-fourth day until her 18th birthday. - " Indian Summer " ~ Novel The Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ Life in the America Eastof the Muddy Mississip is a world unto itself where the
rules of the West don't apply! ◊ With Becka Fosse, now happy as Mrs. Tad Huntington Quade, the legendary lawman
Paul Lee McWhorter settles down on what remains of his family's plantation on the James River, seeking the active life of
a country gentleman while clinging to his love for the past in his interest in a good racing stallion that proudly carries
the McWhorter family honor. But where pursuit of money and pride collide, there are far too many shadows where evil can hide,
seizing on the most unexpected of people to cause the same kind of conflicts in jodhpurs and silks as found in buckskins and
sweat stained Levi's! And the same call to justice and right, badge or no badge...you can take the wash the dust out of the
clothes he brought East of the Big Muddy but the West won't run easily from the blood of the man it nurtured and raised in
self reliance!
" Rancho Pacifica " ~ Novel The Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. #1 ~ Sixty-three year old Paul Lee McWhorter returns to his father's plantation for the first time in thirty years,
joined by the young law man Luke Cole, who served with him as a US Marshall in Nevada. Newly released from a horrific experience
in a pow death camp, he expects to find the peace at last to settle down. But instead, he is driven back out West by the ghosts
he carries with him. His Young Ward catches up with him in Carson City Nevada, and he resumes the life he had prior to his
decision to fight for the honor of the South, seeing that she was losing the War only in lack of numbers, but he finds an
aversion to violence deeply ingrained within his survivor's guilt and he will chose an alternative to violence wherever feasible.
He arrives in San Francisco just in time to unwittingly save a man's life, thus becoming a part of the very stuggle he
is attempting to avoid! " Redless " ~ Short Story A novel of faith and action in Post Civil War America. Dtermined to make a newlife for himself- and the people
who served his family so faithfully, ninteen year old "Reckless" Walker left his family home to the carpetbaggers
who 'caimed' it. Digging up the treasured family silver, and offering a new life to anyone, regardless of color, who
wanted to take what was rightfully theirs and leave with him to go West. But he is stricken down shortly after their arrival
and the price of keeping the Community and 'Redless'' dream alive falls ont he shoulders of a quiet spoke Black woman
of middle to indeterminate age, Fanny Walker. Guessing at the real reason behind the yound soldier's change of
cheart she will nopt let his dream die too as long as their is breath in her amble body! - " September Strawberries " ~ Novel The
Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ It is Becka Fosse's eighteenth birthday, Paul McWhorter's seventieth birthday,
the day at which he has promised himself to give up his job as a lawman and return to live in his Virginia home until such
time as Becka is married and no longer needs him. He looks forward to a life no more demanding than the necessities of rising
daily and finding a way to keep his grandchildren entertained with his stories of life on the Old West, but leaving his past
is easier than making his past leave him alone! -
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Shaddle Junction " [Published, PublishAmerica - 2010] The Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ The union of the two railroad giants, backed
by the United States Government in a daring bid to claim the Continental land from sea to sea, is a moment of history so monumental,
Paul Lee McWhorter wishes for his younger companions to be able to say they were there. So he accepts a job from one of the
railroad official's to keep a known bandit away from the festivities so he can't spoil it for everyone. However, once he arrives,
he discovers its simply a rival the man wants removed from his rise to power, and the silent Virginian refuses. While they
are watching the ceremonies at Summit Point, Utah, he is abruptly confronted with a younger version of dead sweetheart in
Virginia, who claims he is her father! But before he can question her further, she disappears into the crowd!
When she is kidnapped he feels honor bound to attempt to help her for her mother's sake, even though she is more of a problem
to him than her kidnappers, as the answer to the nearly thirty year old mystery is answered to his horror! - " Soldier's Heart " ~ Novel The
Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ After the American Civil War, PTSD
was known as 'solder's heart'. When he receives a call for help from a former soldier under his command
during the War, he rides to see if he can help. Or, at the very least, see that the man, perhaps unjustly accused of murder
because the victim was as well liked as he was hated, at least had his day in court and a proper buriel. But what
he runs into is a corrupt town ready to bury a man rather than allow him to expose what must be hidden at all costs. And if
one, why not tow? Or as many as it takes? - " Son of a Gamboling Man " ~
Short Story When the nameless, brown haired, brown eyes boy broke for freedom form the Orphan Trian he had no
idea what was in store for him or how he would even think to survive until he ran up against a gamboling man like
a tumbleweed strikes a rooted plant of its own kind and remains till the wind tears them apart. A man who openly whored, drank,
cussed and played cards: everything he'd been taught to abhor by the people running the orphan asylem in New York City.
But a man who was willling to share his own attempt at a second chance...this then, is Sam's story as seen through his
eyes. " Stands Alone, The Story of Winterhawk Larkin " ~ Novel In a
tribe decimated by sickness, the Old Ways take on an additional weight as they struggle to survive against desperate odds.
But when their best young hunter is tricked into leaving his family for good on a non-existent quest by a vengeful Medicine
Man, it is the beginning of a strange, life-long journey for the boy known as Kills With a Knife as he encounters Spanish
settlers and a dying gun-hawk bent on revenge against a man of his long-missing father's tribe before death cheats him of
his final revenge, and together, they form an unlikely alliance that does good beyond their lifetimes! - " Stands By The Shoulder " ~ Novel The
Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ The unspoken belief that a man's actions now weigh more than anything he might
be escaping from his past is severely tested as Paul McWhorter and his group keep an earlier promise, returning to guide the
greenhorn physician Drew Wilder and his companion, the retiring mission's senior Padre across the Sierra Nevadas to San Francisco.
But a strange, haunted figure steps out of the early snows and the greenhorn's past; demanding the life of the mild manner
doctor as the price of their continued safe pasage to the Coast!
- " Spring Rayne " ~ Novel The Paul
Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ With Becka happily married and busy running a business of her own, seventy-four year old Paul McWhorter naturally assumes
he can return to his father's house on the James River with nothing more ahead of him than bouncing her babies on his knee
and telling them sanitized stories of his life as lawman - until a hunted figure steps out of his past with the five year
old daughter of Speckled Bird, asking Paul's help in raising her in a world where her dark eyes, her straight black hair and
keen wit will always mark her as an outsider! -
" Sumner Hidalgo " ~ Novel Manolito Gonzales discovers that
he has a son and claims him away from a place where he has never been allowed to grow roots, moving the shy boy to Paul
McWhorter's Nevada ranch by Lake Lohotan where he can stay and grow with the other children the retired lawman
has gathered around himself in the course of his life's journey. Sumner retells
his adventures as a grown man, linking the legendary lawman of The Old West with the generation that follow, having experienced
a world war as a corespondent for a major New York paper. Like he says, short of dying, there isn't any danger or loneliness
he hasn't already faced, as the lengthy saga of this quiet Virginian, surfeit with violence after the War Between the States
finally concludes with the lessons of love, faith, and hope passed on to the next generation. -
" The Coast Road " ~ Novel The Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ Returning to Neavda with a slight detour to Nex
Pez teritory in hopes of purchasing one of the spotted horses for his ranch that he's heard so much about, Paul and his
companions are passing thru the Columbia basin region when he chases on a woman with several small children who
desperately needs his help. Putting his own needs and wishes aside, Paul becomes embroiled in an Indian conflict that has
no solution that can be fair to either side, but neither can he, in good conscience just walk away with a woman at risk. He
has to chose the lesser of two evils and hope for the best! - " Winter Wheat " ~ Novel The Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ Life in the America
Eastof the Muddy Mississip is a world unto itself where the rules of the West don't apply! ◊
With Becka Fosse, now happy as Mrs. Tad Huntington Quade, the
legendary lawman Paul Lee McWhorter settles down on what remains of his family's plantation on the James River, seeking the
active life of a country gentleman while clinging to his love for the past in his interest in a good racing stallion that
proudly carries the McWhorter family honor. But where pursuit of money and pride collide, there are far too many shadows where
evil can hide, seizing on the most unexpected of people to cause the same kind of conflicts in jodhpurs and silks as found
in buckskins and sweat stained Levi's! And the same call to justice and right, badge or no badge...you can take the wash the
dust out of the clothes he brought East of the Big Muddy but the West won't run easily from the blood of the man it nurtured
and raised in self reliance!
" Wolf Crossing " ~ Novel The
Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ His belief in a Divine if remote Presence who ultimately settles life's scores
for mankind, is severely tested when Paul McWhorter is unexpectedly thrust into the new conflict as a federal Marshal
when he lands in the midst of a man he knows to be a ruthless
killer - now praying on unsuspecting people but is revenge his to exact before a terrible injustice is committed?
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" A Call to <Loving> Arms " ~ Novel Written in response to the horrific tragedy of a
deranged janitor bringing fear and terror to an Amish classroom, I was able to find a way to look at it from the point of
view of a young boy who's been bullied beyond his endurance, and the effects on the families he inadvertently touched with
his violence. -
" A Cord of Three Strands " - 1500 Word Story I was deeply move by the plight of real life
people 'aging out' of the foster care system with less tools than a felon is offered! But the story hit home in such an unexpected
way I couldn't bear to explore too deep, but it was too important to scrape! I'd just discovered I COULD write these short-shorts
so I challenged myself! " In Touch With An Angel " ~ Novella As youngsters, Sputnik,
the Russian space satellite, the first to orbit the earth made a profound made a profound impact on their lives. Now married,
with families of their own, an other-worldly event has returned them to their childhood rooms and the unresolved conflicts
they simply fled after college. Leaving letters in the crook of the old tree in the backyard helps to link them to their long
dead mother, even though they suspect its their father whose reading them, but old habits die hard and some lessons are more
difficult than others to receive, however necessary they may be as Life gently closes down in its natural cycles of so many
spins allowed the the sun. Even Sputnik eventually fell to earth and was consumed.
" Remembering Fiona " ~ Short Story At the ending of her life, Fiona is able to step into Eternity with Jesus and look back
at the unexpected gifts and delights that passed unnoticed in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. " Seuss and Baylie " ~ Short Story As
a child of a couple where both parents are active memebers of the military, twelve-year-old Seuss grew up expecting that change was to be an intergal part of her life, but that didn't make it any easier when
her younger sister was born unexpectedly, when her father's mother had to move in with them while her Mom was deployed in
Iraq as a low-risk level Interpretper... or when her mother's supposed 'kidnapping' while visiting with relatives in their
ancient homeland turns out to her her Mom's decision to convert to Islam, marry the man who supposedly 'kidnapped' her and
required both her daughters to join her in Iraq, without their father...and without even asking her how she might feel
about this change!
" Sugar Melts in Hot Tea and Other Mysteries of the Mundane " ~ My first Short Story Two young women about to graduate from college make a life-long commitment; one to a man, the other to her GOD. - “ The Challenges of Growing Old Gracefully “ ~ My first 1500 WORD story The story shares the theme that Life is
meant to be lived, as it is experienced now, and let the world pass by as it will.
◊
It's alright if you stumble and fall a
hundred times just as long as you pick yourself up the last time you fall! ◊
Foreign
Countries -
· Africa· " Avid " ~ The Story of Maude Amy Webb "· Afghanistan " Casting Shadows " ~ Novel On the brink of 9/11/2001, a middle-aged widow finds the strength to put aside her grief
and step back into life as she explores her childhood home, now up for sale, as if she were simply a potential buyer; encountering
out of date images from her childhood so real they cast shadows! Sometimes Life takes a step back and allows
us to catch us our breath...and sometimes...it comes at us with the speed of an express train.
- Great
Britain
- " Jack Philipps " ~ Novel A Night on the Titanic
- " Sarah Besieger's 'Shadow
Sarah' " ~ Young Adult Novel
- Iraq
- " Seuss and Baylie " ~ Short Story
As a child of a couple where both parents
are active members of the military, twelve-year-old Seuss grew up expecting that change was to be an
intergal part of her life, but that didn't make it any easier when her younger sister was born unexpectedly, when her father's
mother had to move in with them while her Mom was deployed in Iraq as a low-risk level Interpretper... or when her mother's
supposed 'kidnapping' while visiting with relatives in their ancient homeland turns out to her her Mom's decision to convert
to Islam, marry the man who supposedly 'kidnapped' her and required both her daughters to join her in Iraq, without their
father...and without even asking her how she might feel about this change!
- Ancient Israel
- " A Bethlehem Hill " - 1500 WORD Story From: "Majesty, Lion
of Judah", this is a tender glimpse into the life of the patriarch shepherd who witnessed the Angelic Annunciation
at the Christ's birth.
- “ Ahava ” ~ Growing up Jewish with the LORD as a loving older brother
- " A Man called Isaac " ~ Novel The Passion of the Christ from a soldier's point of view.
- “ Forty Days in Zion “ ~ The
comfort and Instruction of His Disciples by the Risen Christ
- "
Majesty, Lion of Judah “ ~ A comprehesive account of the actual story
told in the Synoptic Gospels from a Jewish Woman's point of view
Volume I
Volume II
Volume III " The Promise of My Father " ~ How the Early Jewish Church continued in the Way " Majesty, The Book " ~ A condensed
version of "Majesty, Lion of Judah" from
Volumes I ~ A comprehensive account of the actual story told in the Synoptic Gospels from
the viewpoint of Hilkiah the Carpenter
Volume II Ibid ·
" The Empty Cross " ~ A 1500 WORD Story retelling the Act and Consequences of
the Passion of the Christ " The Matchmaker's delight " ~ A 1500 WORD Story capturing the private side of Jesus' Life " Gethsemane Speaks " ~ A 1500 WORD Story in the Garden with Jesus and His long time friend Hilkiah " Up to Jerusalem " A 1500 WORD Story with Jesus and His long time friend
Hilkiah overlooking Bethlehem - Israel
" Rachel's Journey " ~ Novel In the midst of watching
doomsday scenarios I suddenly asked myself what it might be like to walk into a future living with the Antichrist if one had
absolutely no idea what to expect? No buzz words, no ominous signs, just simply life as reported on the evening news as the
country of your birth is incineratedfor its over consumption and the rest of the world doesn't even seem to care? I got more
than I bargained for.... - Lebanon
- " The Nature of the Beast " ~ Novel A Brother John Carbasian Mystery
~ Intrigue and murder continue to infiltrate Brother
John's life as surely as fog creeps down the coast into Santa Cruz, California where Brother John and Al Hoag, with
his family, hope to set up a permanent retreat for battle weary souls locked in a struggle with the streets for their soul.
But even as John's dying mother is returned to him from a mysterious figure from his past, evil comes against him head-on
challenging his continued commitment to non-violence and to the ministry!
- Mexico
- " The Rice Paper Tower " ~ Novella
Norm Leonardi is experiencing the
onset of Alzheimer’s but in the wisdom he’s garnered
in seventy-six years of good living with a warm, devoted Christian wife and family and an unquenchable belief in a loving GOD, no matter the trials
and tragedy’s they’ve endured together, there is one last
gift he has to give to his troubled adultgranddaughter Lexie, whose come to him with
a problem that a smile and a kiss can’t make go away—and it will cost him more than a quarter for an ice creamfrom the Good Humor truck
when Heaven calls and he is ready to answer ‘Yes, here am I, Lord!’ “ Love is sometimes a four legged word. “ - Scotland
- " The Dark Knight " ~ Young Adult Novel
- The United Arab Emirates, Dubai
- " A Necessary Portal " ~ Novel A twenty-year old woman returns with her grandfather to help her Mom and Dad escape militant Jihadist
when their hotel is stormed and they are trapped. She discovers that her mild manner grandfather Andy is a very different
person from the one she thought she knew, and she is confronted with a need for genuine faith that can sustain
her through life and death struggles!
Every man's works will be tested by fire - only what is Just will survive.
Will mine by more than Ashes in The Wind?
Jesus is the Best Part of being Jewish ~ It's just a shame that more people don't realize that!
The synoptic Gospels accounts within their
cultural perspective Jesus of Nazareth from
a Jewish Woman's point of view
◊ A Novel by: A.R. Koheen as LuNae
Christine Simpson : . He existed because He always had; there would never be
a time when He no longer existed. He existed as Three in One, because he had always existed so and there would never be a
time when One would be Greater than the Other, or in any manner separate. This was simply so. He devised worlds of infinite
existence within Him, compressed in one infinitesimal portion of Him which would operate like variations of a hum within the
limits He chose for the sublime and the subatomic, and this pleased Him.
He created Time, space, matter and energy because it allowed Him to create yet another Being to share His love and fellowship,
seeing it from its emergence aware of Him on an intimate basis to the time of the Great Rebellion wrecking havoc on the
second creation, and He knew each Soul, its joy, agony, life, dreams, hops, expectations, disappointments...those who would
honor him and those who would perish from willfulness and with only a moment's pause in the vast spectrum of eternity, He
chose to begin Creation, knowing its terrible consequences to His Spirit and Mortal Body for the sake
of those who would turn and smile at Him in love, fit to enjoy these pleasures inherent in Him for the remainder of Eternity.
He formed the virgin Mary, placing
her at the approbate moment, just as he placed the Others who would present His struggle to the eyes of mortal Man and the
watching beings who weighed the outcome and awaited its completion, within His Times. But His face was turning toward the
day He could speak to all whom He loved and call "Come up Hither!": For their true mission in life to begin. Never
shirking the details, never too busy to listen or care, the unseen Hand that held Creation and the widow's heart, and when
it was time He set His Star in the night skies over the third planet from the Sol in a nondescript portion of a minor galaxy
and He wailed at his first breath in miniature lungs of a newborn. It had begun. - READ
2,358 Poems: Modern Haiku, Free Verse, Narrative Free Verse, and
Rhymed 57 NOVELS: 7 Religious, 14 Westerns, 3 Contemporary,
1 Family Saga of 6 books, 2 Children's,
4 Historical, 2 Messianic Jewish, 4 Military Families, 8 Mysteries,
6 Natural Science and Adventure for Teens, 1 Native Americana 103 Other Works:
14 Novellas , 14 Short Stories, 14 - 1500 WORD STORIES, 4 Seasonal Stories All
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