Rags-to-Riches Stories

A Story in the Naked In School Universe
"Freedom" is a romantic coming-of-age story which is set in the “Naked in School” universe. A young teen, emotionally abandoned by her father and harassed by the father’s girlfriend, tries to cope with her life while living essentially on her own. On the day she begins attending her first year in high school, she’s forced to face the school’s new nudity program while trying to cope with memories of her past, the problems of her nonexistent family life and her burgeoning adolescence. Illustrated.

A Rivers Region Story
A two hundred year old Australian building is destroyed by fire when a jet taking off from the local airport is shot down. This is how the owner turns a fire gutted building of five sandstone walls back into the elegant building it once was, despite not having much cash to do it with and having to fight the state bureaucrats. It also talks about his important personal and family events during the reconstruction. The fire is very much a life changing event for the owner and his family.

No good turn goes unpunished. There's nothing so constant in life as change. Shortly after finishing his Australian university exams Smoky Grey learns these two sayings are true. His life and plans are totally changed by an encounter in the university car-park. For the next few years his life is one change after another. Some of them being ones he initiates. He's a catalyst for changes to improve the lives of many people.

continuation of "If I Had A Boat" It was six o'clock in the morning, seventy five degrees, not much wind a blowing, just a gentle breeze. Then the damned hurricane came in.

She loved him, but she loved her social status more, betraying him so badly that he ended up homeless and penniless. Now she wants to betray him further by giving him cash to sell his children to her new husband. But all is not as it seems.

A man believes all women are only after his money, until he finds one worthy to have it all.

A Kenny the Kansan Story
Kenny tries to make the most of his opportunities. He finds his purpose and begins his journey towards achieving his goals. / (Reviews)

At the end of her rope, a desperate mother who has just been evicted from the low rent duplex where she lives with her fourteen-year-old daughter and is about to lose her job is offered what would normally be an unacceptable alternative. If she agrees to become his sex slave he will take her in and help her put her life back in order. He promises not to rape her daughter but admits he intends to seduce her. That being the only option open to her she accepts his offer. / (Reviews)

Growing up in a boat shop, building boats, dealing with life, and living a dream. / (Reviews)

It is 1948 and London is recovering from almost a decade of war and only three years of recovery and rebuilding both the physical destruction and restoring society with new-found optimism for a bright new future. Gertie is 17 , nearly 18 and a bright and pretty hat check girl looking after theatregoers’ hats and coats in a lively West End Theatre. One evening, while everyone is watching the third act, a drunken patron attacks her and a dashing captain rescues her … changing her life forever.