Fiction Stories

A Strawberry Patch Story
The Third in The Strawberry Patch Series. The O'Dell Family faces great tragedy and great successes together. The Babies keep everything interesting, as do the O'Dell children. The stories chapters will be posted every Sunday morning as usual. The big difference is that for this book someone finally realized how badly I needed an editor. Askepot has kindly taken on the task and has made the story so much better. Thank you for your readership.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
Stanley drops out of agricultural college to join the Navy, and is shipped off to a space station known as the Pinwheel to complete his training as a UNN Marine. There he meets Raz, an unruly alien who he will be forced to befriend if he wants to complete the program.

The Baldwins ranched in Texas until shortly after the Civil War. Then the carpetbaggers arrived and Chance Baldwin didn't get along. Hetty, his mother, urged him to depart. He made is way to Wyoming, collecting a Squaw Man along the way to guide him to the friend he was searching for. Encompasses 18 months of time in a fictional account of settling in the Western part of our country

This book contains some sex, but those sections are marked if you wish to skip. It is a slice of life and coming of age adventure involving ancient artifacts, food, school, travel between universes, creepy mysteries, and alien intelligences. A new town, a new school, a new home. Sam is almost 16, and as he helps his Dad paint the new house, a 200 year old mansion picked up cheap at auction, he discovers disturbing things about the previous resident, and evidence of a hidden treasure. But, that i / (Reviews)

Sometimes love is found where it's least expected.

An Air Transport Auxiliary Story
The grandson of a ferry pilot who died in the second world war tells of his experience following the grandfather he never knew into the air. There's a bit of romance, too, but no explicit sex (sorry). / (Reviews)

They say nudists get used to being around other nude people, and don't react like a non-nudist would. When five siblings who lived like nudists at home went on vacation to a nude beach, it didn't quite turn out like they thought it would. Especially when a stranger offered them money - a lot of money - to let him take some pictures of them romping naked on the beach. They found out the meaning of "slippery slope" in the process. Then they learned about the carrot and the stick.

Stories in the Frank's Post-Apoc World Universe
This is the eighth in the series. It was originally going to be about the trip to Europe but I am sidetracked. We will get to it when my muse permits. In the interim, please enjoy the ride. RG