In Peace on Earth we see into both sides of a vicious, blood-curdling battle in the trenches of WWI, when poison gas, hand-to-hand combat and starvation still played a big role in wars between countries. In a true event, something that history verifies happened, we get a glimpse of what could have happened on that day on the Western Front, between two armies, and the human beings who discovered there humanity on that Christmas Day, in the year of Our Lord, 1914. In Muhammad's Revenge we see how the world can be, has been and will be again, changed in dramatically, historic fashion until it no...

THE THREE PLAYS SUMMARIZED: In Santa Claus, Satellites, Cellphones & Sinkholes in Spring Hill we see into the lives of a small Tampa Bay suburb and the lives of many of its residents and their almost daily problems. Christmas takes center stage and is it only children who believe in Santa Claus? In "SANDCASTLES IN THE SUN" we see a private detective, take on a case that appears to be nothing more than a simple interview in an old cold-case murder but turns out to be anything but. In "TWO FOR THE NIGHT" we see Jimmy Miller looking for work and being unable to keep a job due to alcoholism and...

"Saving Primo" is the last of the book's four stories with the primary characters being J.D. Dickens, and his partner, Isaiah 'I-Hop' Hopkins. The story's intrigue involves a top-secret deal between the American and Canadian governments concerning an enormous oil pipeline that is being built through the Canadian Yukon and far into the U.S. and when Primo Canto, whose life had been saved by J.D. and his partner 18 months previously, phones them about his finding information for an environmentalist group that is against the clandestine pipeline deal even more vehemently since they find it also...

Bad Medicine is another collection of short stories by writer Keith G. Laufenberg that brings the reality of life in America-that of a nation where virtually everything, including health care, is available for profit only and must be bought & paid for-before delivery. Every working and non-working American-disabled, either by sickness or poverty-has lived through this and, to this very day, in 2014, continue to live through it. These stories graphically illustrate why it is the Capitalist System itself that harbors institutions that lie, rob, cheat and steal and all in the name of the very...

In the title story, Any Other Name, it is 1962 and the world is on the brink of nuclear war. For 13 days in October what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis raged in Cuba, the United States and Russia and the story begins when a 21 year-old ex-marine, working for the CIA, becomes involved in the operations. The young ex-marine was there when DEF CON 2, one step before all-out nuclear war, was activated and he saw history made from a much different angle than anyone else and this, then, is his story.The Terror is told in the 1st person and the subject-the writer's friend-known only as the...

In "Sonny Liston's Eyes" a writer, and former boxer who knew Liston, flies to New York for a story from a mafia hit-man who had not only eliminated Liston but also JFK and was responsible, or knew who was, for every high-profile assassination of the second half of the 20th Century. In "Bad Medicine" we see America's health care system is broken and causes innumerable unneeded deaths. In "Big Sugar" we see a Jamaican giant who is a living savior to the homeless in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. In "The Sheik Is Dead" we see a Realtor, also a comedian, use his many voices and...

The story begins on a street corner where five of the main characters are waiting to be picked up for a construction job. It spirals out of control on their third day at work when the white daughters of the general contractor's make a frivolous play for one of the black laborers, which ends up with them, their fathers and four of the laborers in a courtroom, in which justice becomes secondary to the societal pressures of an all-white jury, in 1968, trying two black laborers, one who is an escaped-felon, on a trumped-up charge that ruins more lives than just those who end up in prison.

In "I Am an American" we get a flavorful mixture of poems: everything freedom, politics, destiny and religion to the fact that if there is one thing we can count on, besides death and taxes, it is that the sun, sooner or later, will come up.

"THE HUMAN BEINGS" is a story written for children, of all ages, from 1-120. The roots of the story come from the biblical Adam & Eve story and progress in a vein that is intended for little children, as well as all children, to learn how they must treat animals, as well as each other in order not just to be happy but even to assure the survival of the entire planet's population. It centers on the fact that both men and women, human beings, must get along, not only with each other, by not judging one another and engaging in war after war with each other but also with the animal kingdom and...

The Numbers Book is an attempt to teach anyone, who wishes to learn, how to learn their numbers and to learn them so very easily and thoroughly. Although this book is written with children in mind, anyone should be able to learn how to write all these numbers and also to learn very basic arithmetic, at the same time, by learning everything in progression: first how to draw and use the numbers 1-10 and then how to add them to other numbers to make the numbers 11 through 20, and by so doing they will have also learned, without even realizing it, how to write all the way up to the highest number...