Every Union and Confederate soldier had a story. Each wife who said a tearful good-bye had a story. All parents who worried and wondered if their child would ever walk through their front door again had a story. In this fictional grouping of short stories, Shirl attempts to tell them all. Shirl calls a historic Gettysburg farmhouse home. Each story of the Civil War has personally touched her heart, and she hopes her storytelling will touch yours as well.

Share in the personal memoirs of an animal intuitive communicator and the wonderful beings that call her heart and house home. A rescuer of the elderly and the misfit, Shirl works as a certified Reiki Master, specializing in Animal Reiki. Readers will laugh and cry as they read each adoptee's life story, from that of a tiny, blind Pomeranian stuffed in a garbage bag and left as trash outside a shelter, to an alien, ghost-seeing "mixed breed" from somewhere out in the Galaxy, to a furry friend who outlived a two-month death sentence by six loving years. Each animal has left a mark on Shirl's...

In a world of too many unhappy endings, Shirl seeks to bring a world of kindness, magic, and happily ever afters between the pages of this book. A peaceful sanctuary for adults, come escape into the realms of fairies, and creatures of the woodlands and sea. Parents will find the gentle hearts of animals in Shirl's stories will help instill compassionate lessons into young readers' hearts. Travel back to childhood, to a time when wishes came true and goodness conquered evil. Because you're never too old for fairy tales.

A collection of fairy tales for all ages. Journey to a land of fairies, kindhearted dragons, and loving woodland beings who share a place of innocence and once upon a time.