A Marine grunt returns to civilian life and is faced with a new mission to bring hope to an innocent girl. Sexual abuse, a horrendous crime, and a stunning revelation eventually lead them to an unexpected ending.
Joe McSwain, 12 years old, and his two sisters/wives travel from South Carolina to settle in the far West of 1813. They come to rest in South Alabama and start a farm and a business raising war dogs. They fight Indians, British invaders, local slavers, and empire builders, but they live and prosper as Joe accumulates more wives. The McSwain household grows to be a force in the lives of everyone in this part of Alabama. Join them as Joe and his dogs force civilization onto the savage country.
Violent storms are common in the Midwest. The one described here actually happened outside a little town I was staying in almost 20 years ago. It sounded like a train, the tornado axiom, if you will, but the straight-line winds cleared a windrow to stumps and killed several cattle (and I'm sure a lot of other critters). Friday I was in the shower, during a storm, when my muse spoke to me, and yes, when I looked out back, she was sitting on our boat.
Yulia Valerievna is hunting a killer in America after the death of her partner. What she will find will shake the foundations of what she knows and believes. The question is: will it destroy her? A commissioned piece.
A Conversations Story A simple man comes home early to find a strange car in his driveway... An old trope on the cheating wife sydrome, but one with a very strange twist, and a definite sting in the tail.
A Jewish girl hiding from the Gestapo and a wounded German soldier save each other's lives before the soldier is ordered to Normandy to await the Allied invasion. The story is multimedia, so when music is mentioned, you can copy the web address of the music video, and pase it to a command line.