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NEWS SERVICE HEADLINES EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! Or Better Yet ... Read It for Yourself! " Thoughts on Winter From the Fourth Floor Window " ~ A Poetric Investigation of the Inland Empire 50 Free Verse Poems READ " La Nina ~ And Other Intimate Insights into The Inland Empire " A Collection of 50 Free Verse about Spokane, Washington READ " Iron Shadows, Tender Green Tendrils " Rhymed
Verse READ
" Thoughts on Winter From a Fourth Floor Window " " La Nina " " Iron Shadows, tender Green tendrils "
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PROSE
" Paper Doll Family and Sons " Circa - 2005 - Darla Farrell is an ambitious, young Creole
woman in New Orleans, soon to enroll in a course as an EMT. 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! READ   " Up To Jerusalem " ~ A 1500 WORD Story From
: " Majesty, Lion of Judah " On a hill overlooking the village of
Bethlehem with the man who came to worship Him at his birth thirty years before, Jesus of Nazareth shares a profound truth
with Hilkiah on the eve of His final journey into Jerusalem.
READ " Anamosa " The Story of White Fawn ~ Paul Lee McWhorter's Granddaughter Lake Lohontan, Nevada 1917 ,
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. READ " Paper Doll Family and Sons " " Up to Jerusalem " "
Anamosa "
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" When My Journey Ends, My Journey Begins " A Short Story " Prince of Thebes "
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! READ  " Echoes of a Distant Summer " A Gentle love story set in the summer of 1967
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 READ " Increments of Infinity " A Collection of Five Short Stories: Innocence of youth,
Young Adulthood, Thirty Something, Middle Age, and Eternity "
My Name is Lettie, and That Rhymes With SETI, And He Was A Great King Too " "
Paper Doll family and Sons " " Echoes of A Summer " " When My Journey Ends, My Journey begins " "
Remembering Fiona " Children's Imagination Destination
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Celery the Dragon and His Search for the Majic Griffon " © 1964 Libary of Congress
Modernized 2012 ~ Once
upon a Time long, long ago while I was on a journey to a land far, far away, I heard the
story told of a young dragon his friends named "Celery" for the lovely green color of his scales,
which darkened as he aged, as his friends could not pronounced the s's and hisses of his real dargon name. With your permission, I'd
like to tell you his story and I will call him "Celery the Dragon" as well. Our story begins on the edge
of the Great Sea,,,,
" The Dark Knight " ~ Children's Novel 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!
READ
" Anna Rebeka and The Winds of Marchaud " A
Children's Novel by LuNae S. Carter ~
Once
Upon a Time and long, long ago, while I was on a journey far,far away, I heard the story of a little grey mouse who
sat on the edge of the great field outside the home of her mother Martha Milking Pail Mouse, her senses alert and tingling,
though she was too young to know why...just yet...she was soon to learn that the Winds of Marchaud call to someone special
but ONCE in a generation and ONCE in their life, and if they chose not to answer, or they are too afraid to answer
the call of adventure they will spend the reminder of their lives wondering what great events they might have missed in shaping
their lives! -
"Sarah Besinger's 'Shadow Sarah'" ~ Children's
NovelA 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.
" When Mu Journey Ends, My Journey Begins " " Echoes of a Distant
Summer " " Inrements of Infinity " Children's Imagination
Destination " Celery the Dragon and His Search for the Majic Griffon " © 1964 Libary
of Congress Modernized
2012 " Anna Rebeka and The Winds of Machaud
" " Sarah Besinger's 'Shadow Sarah' "
" The Dark Knight "
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