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A Seasonal Collection of Free Verse poems
swirled within the Author during the snowbound months of Spokane, Washington as the river lay
still and her thoughts ran deep.
" A Man Walking "
Narrative
Free Verse honoring my Grandfather
Mr. Lou Larkin
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" Black Cat " ~ KURO NEKO
A Narrative Free Fantasy
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" Time for Another Volume of Modern HAIKU "
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" Waiting For October "
Narrative Free Verse Collection celebrating Life
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" While There is Time, I will Dance
and I will sing "
32 Narrative Free Verse Poems
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SHORT STORIES
" My Name is Lettie, and that Rhymes with SETI, And He Was a Great King Too "
~
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.
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" The Times of Our Lives " ~ Volume II
" Seuss and Baylie "
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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!
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" A Place of My Own " ~ Volume I
" Remembering Fiona "
An elderly widow
living alone finds herself slipping into eternity with the pleasure and chagrin of walking beside the Master in review
of the intimate moments of her life and the secret gifts and gaffs overlooked in the heat of the dailiness of life. A
rewarding look at the unexpected treasures of a well lived life.
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" Of Thee I Sing " ~ Volume I
" 2006, The Year of the Cat "
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! '
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" The Times of Our Lives " ~ Volume I
