Flushed with the success of the Hallowe'en Story festival. Frank proposed a Christmas Story Festival. Here is my entry. It's OK it isn't what you think. Though there is magic in it.
A Love in Lovett County Story Part of the Wold Stultus universe
An unhappy weekend fisherman is mired in a loveless marriage and meets a lovely lady who is mired up to her neck in mud of a different sort. He becomes very fond of her company, but becomes torn emotionally. Should he even attempt to save his own badly failing marriage or should he now cast his nets instead for the Marsh King's daughter?
Alex Winham, just coming out his shell after the painful end of a 20-year marriage, gets a lesson in trust he didn't know he was looking for. (Sorry, kids, this one's a grown-up story.)
The secrets run deeper. The dangers grow darker. Mark thought surviving the first storm was enough. He was wrong. Pulled even further into the hidden world of magic and monsters, Mark finds himself hunted by enemies he can't yet see — and haunted by the one question that refuses to die: Who killed his parents? With new powers awakening and old truths unraveling, every step forward drags him closer to answers... and closer to a war he may not be ready for.
A standalone coming-of-age story. Bill Morgan, Tom’s son, from the first 'Meeting An Alien' story is almost grown up. There are many dangers, challenges, and needy damsels. With alien help, his job is to get as many women pregnant as he can. Earth 19 is a very different world with a decidedly Old-West feel. Think the mid-1800s: with steam power, percussion-cap weapons, and duels to the death.
A story about a pair of fraternal twins who live out in the sticks and become very close growing up. A new kid moves in near them and Kathy suddenly has a new friend to play with and Mike gets jealous when he finds out how they play together. Mike will do anything for Kathy, anything at all, but telling the new girl their secret? That takes some thinking about: And the new girl has a terrible secret of her own.
A war hero lives for ninety years and saves an alien. They are so grateful they offer him another life. At their urging he chooses to become a beautiful bisexual female. She has her share of affairs and is successful in business.
After my accident, I couldn't muster enough emotion to care about anything. I didn't realize it but I was suffering from a depression. It eventually even affected my marriage. Here's how I managed to break out of It and make my life better.