Farming Stories

As winter is setting in in northern Virginia, fourteen-year-old runaway Kenny is lured away from under a highway underpass by a money-for-sex offer into the truck of a gardening center crew leader who is missing the servicing of his fourteen-year-old stepson. Short men on his crew, the man gives Kenny a job handling a leaf-blower and introduces him to an interested client. Is this the answer to Kenny’s need to stay out of the winter cold?

A farm boy's experiences growing up on a coastal farm in the Deep South, in the late 1950s.

Average Joe was damaged in the First World War, shot down for the third time unlucky, often quipping that losing a leg and an ear he was "less than average" and at 43 was a confirmed bachelor. Then he met heavily pregnant widow Anjelica, "call me Anjie", but Joe thought she was an angel. And she was until her first husband turned up Out of the blue like a bad penny. Unusually, this story starts at the End rather than the Beginning.

An interracial love story using the 2nd generation of characters from my book O'Shea Ranch S.A. No need to read the book, it's a stand-alone story.

A husband has to make some hard decisions.

Coming of Age in 1960s New Zealand. My father's much younger brother guided and mentored me from early adolescence through my teenage years and a series of girlfriends. While each story can stand alone, readers will get most out of this series if they read chronologically starting with Andrea, and progressing through Bronwyn and Robyn to my adventures with Pauline

Another semi-true story about a family dealing out justice.

Fred had been given a hard time by family and at work until the minor incident of his wife kissing another man drove him to assert himself. He didn't guess that SuperFred was waiting to be revealed, although some of his friends knew all along. It seemed as if the world was waiting for the new Fred

The story of Silas Stevenson and the Egg Money. Who knew?

Evolving story about teenagers growing up on neighboring farms.