Rags-to-Riches Stories

A Howard Faxon style romp. No Sex. An inventor creates tiny wormholes held in metal rings. Then he does amazing things with them. Re-edited 4-29-19.

Kim is badly injured in an incident at school, an accident that should never have happened. He's a teenage boy with a reputation of being an unstoppable force that always gets things done. Recovering from injuries that should have been fatal he lives 'in interesting times' as he sets out to prove the doctors wrong. He's determined he'll walk again; if his powerful enemies let him live that long. Set in Australia.

A writing assignment in his first college English course sets Matt Young's life on a course he never foresaw. Nor could he have predicted the result of his meeting with a consultant for his writing, or the secret with which the consultant entrusted him. Matt's Crazy Corner of the World is what his family's teasingly calls his odd household. The story has lots of sex, adventure, and shoot-em-ups. See blog for more details / (Reviews)

A Kenny the Kansan Story
Kenny learns to cope with his emotional problems. In the process, he brings all the loose strands together, weaving a better life for himself and those he touches. / (Reviews)

This is a story about a young man that come from a family that made their living on the sea for generations. How does he take what he was born to do and make the most of it. Coming of age, rags to riches. 30 chapters. I hope you enjoy it.

A simple training exercise with brand new fighter aircraft goes very wrong when some thieves are where they shouldn't be and get mistaken for the target drones. The resulting explosion has many consequences for everyone involved, and Will March ends up living in some turbulent times in another era. Read how Will survives those first few years which are the dangerous beginnings of his new life. 65,000 words of action adventure.

A young couple meets in Sydney, Australia, falls in love, gets involved with her mother, and succeeds in developing a logistics company from a local company to a national one. He’s aggressive, the mother has money, and the daughter provides emotional stability. Another is being added to the union, and the company grows into an international success. Personal conflicts cause problems, but having a solid love base, most are vanquished. It's a story based on love and trust like a fantasy should be.

A fire destroys a farm in Virginia, so the family is moving west. Except the youngest is too ill to travel when it's time to leave. The boy and his grandmother stay behind to follow later. It takes so long for him to recover the two don't go west, and find local employment. A decade later rising political problems cause the young man and his grandmother to make a decision about their future. They'll go west, but it isn't that simple, or an easy journey. Written in US English - 72,700 words.

A Survivor Story
A 10 year old boy survives a car crash where his family is killed. He goes to live on his maternal grandfather's ranch on the Texas / Mexican border with some of his retired Army buddies. But life there has some serious issues due to drug smugglers being angry about having their shipments destroyed by those at the ranch. Pat grows up fast while learning to be quick and accurate with a gun. - 51,400 words of adventure.

A False Start Story
You can never outrun the past. As he attempts to help his friends Li and Eduardo achieve their dreams while building his own path to a football scholarship, Blake discovers that changing the future comes with unexpected consequences and that some problems can't be solved with foreknowledge alone. In the second half of his freshman years. Blake must learn that true leadership isn't about having all the answers, it's about making the right choices when the stakes are the highest.