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NEWS SERVICE HEADLINES EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! Or Better Yet ... Read It for Yourself! 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. 
" Icicles as Art, and Other Intimate Insights Into the Inland Empire " READ * " La Nina, and Other Intimate Insights Into the Inland
Empire " READ * " Reflections on Winter From the
Fourth Florr Window, and Other Intimate Insights Into The Inland
Empire " READ " Iron Shadows, Tender Green Tendrils " A
Collection of 50 Rhymed Poems Illuminating the struggle between the Immutable and the Ethereal
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" A Window on Heaven " ~ Yom Kippur 2011 51 Narrative Free Verse *
" Vive Le Chat " 75 Modern HAIKU
celebrating a life lived being loved by a Cat READ PROSE Short Story
" Redless " A Short Story of Faith and
Action An entire Community on the move in the years of struggle and upheaval following the American Civil War - Determined
to make a new life for himself - and the poeple who served his family so faithfully - nineteen year old 'Reckless' Walker
left his famly home to the hated Carpetbaggers who 'claimed' it, dug up the treasured family silver and offered 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
on the shoulders of a quiet- spoken Black woman of middle to inderterminate age, Fanny Walker. And the dream will not fail
as long as there is breath in her amble body! Collection of Story Prose 1,2,3,9
 Four stories of American
Life during the Holidays presented
in ascending order of pages for your reading enjoyment 1-2-3-9 " The Shopping Mall Santa and the Little Girl With Red hair and Freckles " An overweight, uncertain young man helps out at the Union Gospel Mission as "Santa".
When he is askef for a 'real' gift in playing that role he wants with all his heart to make the litle girl's dream come true,
but he gets caught up in the strenous demands of the season. His sincere prayer and wish is in a way that rewards
him for having the willness to believe in the midst of all the hype! " Tom's Turkeys " Ralph Bassinger, a local rancher, struggling in a bad economy,
resents the fact that his son isn’t going to be able to come home from War for Christmas after, but is being reassigned
to Afghanistan with his National Guard Unit. Only to be reminded that closeness comes from the heart, not in the number
of feet you stand apart! "
The Faces of Christmas "
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 Second Christmas Angel " 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! READ
" A Window on Heaven " ~ Yom Kippur 2011 " Icicles
As Art, And Other Intimate Insights Into the Inland Empire " " Iron Shadows, Tender
Green Tendrils " " La Nina, And Other Intimate Insights Into the Inland Empire "
" Reflections from The Fourth Floor Window, and Other Intimiate Insights Into the Inland Empire
" " Redless " " The Shopping Mall Santa and the Little Girl
With Red Hair and Freckles " " The Faces of Christmas " "
The Second Christmas Angel " " The Twelve Faces of Chritmas " Collection "
Tom's Turkeys " " Vive Le Chat "
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" A Necessary Portal " ~ 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!
READ
" Anyone Can Dream " A Collection of 1500-Word Stories " The Challenges of Growing Old Gracefully
", " The Empty Cross" . " A Bethlehem Hill " , " A Cord of Three Strands " , " By Shadows on The Wall " , " This Moment in Time " " The
Shopping Mall Santa And The Little Girl with Red Hair and Freckles " READ 
" AVID " ~ The Story of Maude Amy Webb * The story of the families living in the house Woodrow Harkness built on his first trip West. Maude Amy, the
third generation in the Homestead, reflects on her search for the perfect keepsakes to leave her four living children as she
approaches her final days. 
" Call Me Ishmael " 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! -   " Majesty " ~ The Book Condescend Novel
from " Majesty, lion of Judah" " Majesty" ~ The Book is a labour of love in the summer of my 68th year and the culmination of a lifetime
spent quietly observing from the sidelines as I've watched the good and bad of Life play itself out. If Thee are looking for
a comprehensive review of all the Master said and did, thee will not find it in this small volume. Many of the stories and
miracles I so painstakingly examined in "Majesty, Lion of Judah" Volumes I,II & III are strangely absent
here. Indeed it is not even the story of Hilkiah, the former shepherd boy alone, but of the people and the lives impacted
by Jesus' Life, Ministry, and Death, although I used the gentle man of faith to anchor the story and limit it from the seventeen
hundred page original. I discovered such a rich texture of unguessed faith and questioning that my only regret is that I didn't
realize it in time to give him his own book as I did Machba`nel and Ahava. It is often the quiet people, sustaining life in
their steadfast fashion, who are overlooked until the thread of the weave is more closely examined. But then...if I were braver,
I would have looked to the Majesty Himself. This I must leave for each of us to do in our fashion. May your search, here and
elsewhere, bring thee the same joy and encouragement in good and bad is my avid prayer. Until we meet again at the Throne
where all questions and doubts will be resolved, I remain, faithfully, your friend and sister, A.R.Koheen READ  " The Price of A Dream Is
A Piece of Your Soul " The Synoptic Gospel Accounts from the perspective of Jesus of Nazareth A Novel by: A.R.
Koheen as: . Miss 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 with 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 choseto 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 approitae moment, just as he placed the Others who would present His struggle
to the eyes of mortal Man and the watching beings who wighed 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 shirkingthe details, never too busy to listen or care, the unseen Hand that hel;d Creation
and the widow;'s heart, and when it was time He set His Star in the nioght skies over th e third plantet from the Sol in a
nondescropt portion of a minor glaexy and He wailed at his first breath in miniature lungs of a newborn. It had begun.
READ - Volume II
" A Necessary Portal " "Anyone Can Dream " Collection " Avid ~ The Story of Maude Amy Webb " " Before This, I Was " " Call me Ishmael " " Majesty, The Book " "
The Price of a Dream is a Piece of Your Soul " Volumes I & II
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" Eighty Pages of Sunshine " An
original novella loosely based onmy acquiring my first apartment in Capitola-by-The-Sea, California shortly after The Summer
of Love. READ " The Family Album " Volume
I Three Stories highlighting the Strength of Women and the Roles they Play in Shaping their families,
their Communities, and their Nation.
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" Seven Sisters " Circa 1999 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!
" Casting Shadows " Circa 2001 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 http://gaines-highlander.org/family-album * " Before This, I Was " Circa 2011 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? - READ  " In The Belly of Jonah's Whale " A Brother John Carbasian San Francisco Murder Mystery in The Haight Ashbury Book #4 ~ Circa 1970 .
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? Collection of Story Prose 1,2,3,9
Four stories of Antebellum
Life following the American Civil War presented
in ascending order of pages for your reading enjoyment 1-2-3-9 "
Shadows on the Wall " " Redless " " My Name is Lettie and that Rhymes with SETI, and He Was A Great
King Too " " Call me Ishmael "
READ
"The Family Album " Collection " Before This, I Was "
~ Circa 2011 " Casting Shadows " - Circa 2001 " Eighty
Pages of Sunshine " - Circa 1967 " In the Belly of Jonah's Whale " "
Seven Sisters " - Circa 1999 " Shadows on The Wall " "
The Family Album " Collection " The Shadows on The Wall " Collection
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