The summer of 1984 was a golden time in America. From California, where gymnast Mary Lou Retton was winning Olympic gold, to Cape Cod, where explorer Barry Clifford was discovering pirate gold, the nation seemed obsessed with the precious metal. But for 15-year old Al, that obsession hits a little too close to home when he finds a code-filled notebook belonging to his missing father that may contain the ancient formula for turning lead to gold. Convinced that his father's sudden disappearance is connected to his secret experiments in alchemy, Al sets out to find the truth. He enlists the help...

Tupac Shakur had THREE "Number One" albums come out after his death. John Kennedy Toole won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for a book published eleven YEARS after he died. And Vincent Van Gogh didn't live to see a single cent of the MILLIONS his art eventually commanded (but at least he never had to hear that horrible song Don Mclean sang about him ) Granted, even dead, all of the above still have more talent than Mike Wood, but that's not stopping him from publishing his posthumous stuff now, while he's still alive to reap the rewards. Inside you will find short stories ranging from...

Growing up in a small town in Virginia named Harper's Ferry, life was pretty boring, Until John Brown came, then the Civil War came to the city. The town would never be the same. This is a story of a young man growing up there, falling in love. Then to have their world turned upside down. Then it was time for the state to call up volunteers, everybody rushed to save their country. This young man enlisted into the 1st Virginia cavalry. He fought at the first battle at Manassas, alongside General Jeb Stuart through the battles they fought, with each other, or the on the battlefield against the...