" 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encountering out of date images from her childhood so real they cast shadows!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 Search for the Majic Griffton " ~ Updated Children's novel
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,,,,
" 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 " ~ Novella
An original novella loosely based onmy acquiring my first
apartment in Capitola-by-The-Sea, California shortly after The Summer of Love, 1967
" 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.
" 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?
" 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 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.
A young Nurse's Aide with only twelve months
experience finds herself caring for six feeble patients stranded at the nursing home during Hurricane Katrina on August 28th,
2005. A story of hope, faith, struggle and renewal.
" 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!
" Redless " [Reckless} ~ 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.
