" 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! '
" '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.
" 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.
" 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!
" 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!
" Ahava " ~ Novel
When I was still a little girl and painfully
shy my Dad, Ed Simpson told me he believed the Holy Spirit told him that - one day - I would write my reoccurring dream into
a book that would touch lives around the world. This was understandably intimidating and as I was dying at 62, I struggled
downstairs to sit under the tree in the patio and write the story of that dream, what it must have been like to grow up Jewish
with your oldest brother killed for claiming to be the Messiah! Being denied access to Scripture, how would I know? How would
I judge? What kind of simple and effective faith would carry me through those dark days until His glorious triumph over death
proved me right? It later grew into the three volume set "'Majesty, Lion of Judah".
" Anna Rebeka and The Winds of Marchaud " ~ Children's Novel
A small gray field mouse answers the call
to adventure she hears as The Winds of Marchaud call her name!
" A Man called Isaac " ~ Novel
The Passion of the Christ from a soldier's point of view.
" 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!
" 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.
" 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.
" 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.
" Andrew's Gift: Return to Tall Fire's Island " ~ 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!
" 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.
" Autumn of Speckled Bird " ~ Novel
PAUL LEE McWHORTER WESTERN LIFE SERIES.
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!'
" 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.
" Before This, I was " ~ Novel
A seventeen year
Service career officer chooses to leave the military in order to help her recently orphaned niece but struggles with a fragile
economy where her sacrifice might have been in vain! ~ A nine-year-old girl who's parents were found dead in an
apparent murder-suicide is the only key to unlocking the reason behind the twin murders. Now the question becomes,
how do you ask her casually what she remembers about what they did while they were alive, when she is deeply enmeshed in grieving
for them because they're gone? How much or how little did what caused them to be killed get revealed in front
of their daughter during their relationship as a family while they were off-duty? And if she
does remember...how is she ever going to see that Justice is done on their behalf?
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" By Shadows on the Wall " ~ 1500 Word Story
Part of the "Shadows on the Wall Collection
" of Prose in ascending order of pages, 1-2-3-9, beginning with 1500 words all the way up to a Short American 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.
" 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!
" 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
" Celery the Dragon and His Seach for the Majic Griffon " ~ Children's novel [updated]
An orphaned dragon discovers
there is one place left in the world where he can go to try and find his real parents, and the people he meets who accompany
him on his journey to find his way home.
" 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.
" Echoes of a Distant Summer " ~ Short Story
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
" Eighty Pages of Sunshine " ~ Novel
An original work loosely based on my first apartment
at Capitola-By-The-Sea, Santa Cruz, California
" Fires in The Night Sky " ~ Novel
The
Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series. ~ Having been assigned
to a new case by Judge Wilbur Orville, in which he is accompanied by Luke Cole, his twelve year olf Ward, Becka Fosse, and
'Manolito' Gonsales, the young son ofd a dead outlaw who stumbled into their cam one night, more dead than alive, Paul
continues his struggle in behalf of people unable to take on corrupt and violent men on their own.
" Forty Days in Zion " ~ Novel
Using the continuing characters of the Majesty collection, I wished to illustrate the LORD moving among His people
in reassurance and instruction that hadn't been possible in His focus on the Nation. Leading up to His return tot he right
hand of the Father and the Day of Pentecost on a more personal level of the lives impacted by these momentous events.
" 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 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.
" 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?
" 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!
" Laura's House " ~ Novel
Becoming homeless when both of your parents are working hard only happens
to other people. Right?
" Mae Rooney " ~ Novella
Modernization takes time to come to the deep woods of Kentuck, but love can arrive in a single night an elderly widow
discovers as she wakes to find a baby on her front porch until the mother 'can return'. As the appeal of the modern
life casts a long shadow between the generations Mae Rooney is forced to make choices that will shape both their
lives and that of her own growing family outside the shadow of the Mountain.
" Majesty, Lion of Judah " Vol. I ~ Novel
The Story of Jesus
of Nazareth as suggested by the Synoptic account, from a Jewish Woman's perspective.
" Majesty, Lion of Judah " Vol. II ~ Novel
The Story of Jesus
of Nazareth as suggested by the Synoptic account, from a Jewish Woman's perspective.
" Majesty, Lion of Judah " Vol. III ~ Novel
The Story of Jesus
of Nazareth as suggested by the Synoptic account, from a Jewish Woman's perspective.
" Majesty " ~ The Book ~ Novel
A condensed version
of the larger, three volume novel highlighting the life and faith of Hilkiah ben Jezreel from Bethlehem to the world wide
Church of its day.
" 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!
" My Name is Letti, and that Rhymes with SETI ... " ~ 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.
" 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 phenoninom 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?
" Mystery at Wolf Creek Canyon " ~ Teen Novel
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!
" 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! " 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!
" Promise of My Father " ~ Novel
Following the dramatic events of Pentecost day, sixteen year old Ahava bat Joses faces the challenges
of daily life in the Holy city of Jerusalem as the majority of her contemporaries are simply learning to deal with life as
a young married in a busy city, "Beloved " a country girl at heart, is thrust into the unique challenges of a growing
Sect who believe her older half-brother Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the long awaited Messiah as so many before him claimed
to be. While faith isn't an issue for her or the older man who has pledged his love for her for the remainder of her life,
there was no 'program' set before the Eleven except that should follow the example lived by the Master and to treat one another
with love ~ while love is the last thing they are faced with on a daily basis! " 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....
" 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!
" 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.
" Sarah Besieger's 'Shadow Sarah' " ~ Children's Novel
A young girl in Victorian Era England has
a strange dream while she's sick in bed with a cold in which the abrupt changes in her life are transcribed into young people
her own age so she can deal with them on a more even playing field.
" 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!
" 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!
" Seven Sisters " ~ Novel
As the excitement
about 'The Millennium Bug' increases expidentially with the approach of the New Year, recently retired teacher
Claire Anne Renoir finds herself feeling as though the wight of the world is about to crash down around on her head with the
arrival of January First, Two Thousand! Usually the fact that her birthday fell one minute after midnight was a jocular event,
to be celebrated at the annual family gathering that kept them together no matter how much their world changed. Longview,
Washington was hardly a hotbed of social ferment but as each of her four younger sisters deals with their mother's recent
loss in different ways, depending on the decade in life in which they find themselves, Claire Anne discovers a terrible weight
falling on her to take on her mother's role, when at forty-nine, she was faced with the desire to flee, to fly where she'd
never gone, to seek out life before Life passed her by...but sometimes, its the butterfly who has to fight the fiercest for
its moment in the sky!
" 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!" Shadow
" 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!
" 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....
" 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?
" 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!
" 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!
" 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.
" 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 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!
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A young girl in Victorian Era Scotland active imagination
is spurred when her Uncle moves into her father's house at his prolonged absence when she and her sister seem to be the only
ones to see 'The Dark Knight' haunting the edges of their land, even when vaguely disturbing events begin to escalate without
explanation!
A Brother John
Carbasian Mystery ~ Introducing The Brother John Mystery Series set in San Francisco
beginning with the Haight Ashbury as it spiraled out into popular culture as an anonymous killer seeks to punish 'The Haight'
for the drug use which destroyed his mind and body but first he must recreate the atmosphere inherent in "The Summer
of Love"1967 so he may distribute a drug that causes the young 'hippie chickies' of either gender to smile themselves
to death. In this book we meet Allem MacKendrie Hoag and his family as they close around the tall, Lebanese Christian minister
who wears the robes of Saint Francis de Assisi to punctuate his adherence to non-violence in a world torn apart by the Viet
Nam was and the struggle for racial equality.
" The Empty Cross " - 1500 Word Story
From " A Man
Called Isaac " ~ The cost of faithfulness to Jesus of Nazareth having witnessed Him at His lowest point, and the
reward.
" The Faces of Christmas " ~ Short Story
A woman who works at the Union Gospel Mission in her home town is beginning to hate the season and all of
its demands. But she learns a poignant lesson about ‘The Reason for the Season” when through the eyes of achild
as innocent as the Babe born in the stable at Bethlehem!
" The Lookingglass Heart " ~ Novel A Quaker family
in Florida deals with the oppostion to them for keeping their faith in perlious times. A View of the Civil War.
" 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!
" The Price of a Dream Is a Piece of Your Soul " - Volume 1 as Miss LuNae Christine Simpson
" The Price of a Dream Is a Piece of Toyr Soul " - Volume II as Miss LuNae Christine Simpson
The synoptic Gospels accounts
within their cultural perspective. Jesus of Nazareth from a Jewish Woman's point of view
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.
“
" 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
" This Moment in Time " ~ a 1500 Word Story
An Innocent
young girl listens tot he stories about the Haight Ashbury and puts herself in harm's way to experience her first LSD trip,
but a trip can only carry you along the road map your provide!
" 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 Youngest Child Always Stirs the Gravy " ~ Novel
A small family of Catholic wheat farmer's in Iowa struggle to make ends meet during the Great depression, relying on each other, a sense of humor
and GOD to see them through!
" Thru Wolf's Eyes " ~ Novel
In a twist
I could never have foreseen, Art paralleled life in this story of an orphaned girl helps her best friend, a ten year old Native
American boy save the last surviving pack of unique Red Wolves of the Umpqua. I was sharply scolded by the Bureau since 'everyone'
had 'agreed" not to speak about the wolves to give them a chance to recover! I was just making up a good story - I thought!
The surprise twist is the return of her 'dead' mother from a coma she should nevber have survived, and drawing on my own experiences
about being locked within an imperfect body trying to make people see that YOU are still there!
" 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!
- November, 2011 READ
" Tres Dias - Three Days " ~ Three Novellas
The same three days in 1968 told from three very different
perspectives. Man, Woman, Infinity. A rabbi, newly returned from the Viet
Nam War, assails heaven for an answer as to why his only child, his son, was allowed to drown in a senseless accident
merely playing with his friends while HE was doing his moral duty in an immoral conflict? But is he ready to hear it, when
Heaven chooses to answer?
" Voices " ~ Novel
The Abigail Merrick Mystery Series, " By The Edge
of the Sea" ~ 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!
" When My Journey Ends, My Journey Begins " ~ Novel Circa
- 2012
Marva Maxwell has opted to cease further extreme measures to simply prolong her existence once her body begins an
inevitable decline. She is unexpectedly confronted with memories of her High School Sweetheart whom she hasn’t given
a thought in thirty years, and discovers, like George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life”, that we touch into
the lives that touch ours, and is given the sweetest parting gift possible – the chance to touch into someone else’s
life and return the love that they shared with her at a time when they desperately need a hand that isn’t asking for
anything in return! [
" 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?
" Wrath of the gods "
The Abigail Merrick Mystery Series, " By The
Edge of the Sea" ~ 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!
