My true account of growing up on a storybook farm, experiencing a killer tornado, surviving teenage confusion, an adventurous four-year ride on a submarine, not maturing into your regular adult, discovering the world is not a bowl of cherries, a crash to the bottom, and, finally, accepting that the only person responsible for me, is me. But first I had to descend into the deep depths of the emotional chasm. Following that is my most recent short fiction "Waiting to Die" a tale of today and the coming, feared, pandemic.

Stuff happens every day that could become a short story. You witness a skydive, then imagine what could go wrong. You visit a nursing home and imagine resident interactions. You see a group of cars go by that all look alike and with antennas; obviously they're in a caravan-what's happening? You see a squirrel gnawing on a walnut and you imagine what his day has been like. You suddenly want a coffee, but something is stopping you, and now you really want one... These are all things that happen every day. You witness this, you witness that, you add your own imagination of what's going on and...

In 2019 many more nations than the superpowers have nuclear weapons and dependable delivery systems, but don't expect ships and bombers. Viewpoint in this novel is strictly from the civilian. New cover, no more confusion; it's not about Christmas Kirby Yates, 40, is groundskeeper at the new underground Energy-Museum at Hammett's Mill, ND, pop. 240. He's also in charge of security of the attached, secret, bomb shelter. It's a story of a man struggling to find love as much as his struggle of accepting the reality of nuclear war. A Review: One of three 5-star reviews Buy -- an unusual,...

The late-nineteen-fifties and early-sixties television series, Rod Serling's THE TWILIGHT ZONE, in my opinion, was filled with stories of events that just happened. When that show began I was ten years old. I would glue myself to the screen, and Rod Serling himself was one of my early heroes, and still is. According to the 1996 Oxford Dictionary, the "twilight zone" refers to ..".any physical or conceptual area that is undefined or intermediate, esp. one that is eerie or unreal." So Rod was right on target in naming his series. The stories in this book are modeled after that great TV show....

The war in Vietnam (a Cold War era military conflict) began November 1, 1955, (the first US military advisors arrived in 1950) but would not end until the fall of Saigon, April 30, 1975. The war would kill (minimum to maximum numbers, according to Wikipedia) 1 million to 3 million Vietnamese, 200,000 to 300,000 Cambodians, 20,000 to 200,000 Laotians. And 58,220 Americans. In the mid-nineteen-sixties some conventional fleet submarines were refitted to carry small teams of UDT and SEALs. Their primary mission was beach reconnaissance. The main submarine used was the USS Perch, left over from...

Book 1 The Heartbreak of Human Trafficking Book 2 Emma Gets Payback Book 3 The Lure of Pornography Book 4 (Look for it in 2015) Eighteen-year-old Emma (A strong female lead in all books of the series.) In Book 1 she is raped, abducted, placed in prostitution. In Book 2 she has escaped, goes to college to pursue child psychology and criminal justice so that she can help other girls, but her past comes back to haunt her. In book 3 she goes undercover into the dark world of pornography. The FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range...

Reviews at end Book 1 of serial "New World Order Rising," The Abduction, based on material written by conspiracy theorists. The daughter and granddaughter of main character, Carter Banks, are abducted by professionals hired by the Illuminati. Carter hires Harley Maxwell, ex-army to help. A GPS chase leads from Fargo, ND, to a Satanist Illuminati camp in New Mexico. They see a storage area for casket-liners, a concentration camp, and witness a union striker roundup by black-uniformed police. Harley, an expert on the Illuminati, schools Carter, who doesn't care about politics and just wants his...

The mother of all disasters Think of the 1800s, the wagontrains, and the people who crossed the prairie looking for a better life. Now fast-forward to the new millennium and the worldwide economy totally crashing, causing unbelievable chaos and violence. Through Native American prophecy, Aaron Hodges sees it coming and envisions building a hidden colony to ride out the likely decades-long crisis. When the crash came nobody could point a finger and blame a specific thing. The United States and the world were locked in drought, stagnant economy, and rampant pollution. Too many people were...

If the state kills a worst-of-the-worst criminal, does he really die? Worst-of-the-worst criminal Les Paul is on death row awaiting execution. The chaplain is trying to stop the execution, and not because of a love for mankind. Mrs. Leslie Markum in nine months will give birth to the reincarnation of evil. Ms. Nicole Waters is nursing at the hospital where the infant, Les Paul, will be abandoned. Cassandra is yet divided between her mother and father. Patrolman Sikorsky is just doing his job and hoping to advance to detective. Riley Stokes, ex-military, will train the chaplain and Nicole to...

Since the 1918-1919 influenza that killed over 50 million people, humankind has feared return of the pandemic, an extraordinarily mutated virus. It's here. As before, with the Spanish Flu, mostly healthy young adults are dying, so many that hospitals can no longer provide for them. Derek Whitfield, 25-year Army vet, has volunteered for end-of-life hospice care. He sees nothing but darkness waiting on The Other Side, until he meets Susannah Brite, his forty-second client.