The Smoke House can be anywhere-an old gas station, a barbershop, or a nearby bench at the park-anywhere that people gather to talk about what is happening to them or the people around them. In places like this, there is usually one person who listens closely and then tells the stories. At The Smoke House, the storyteller will sometimes be Pat, the writer in these tales, or sometimes be the owner. Either way, each individual who comes here can tell his or her story, or maybe someone else's story, without fear. In this series of stories, a man comes to Pat at The Smoke House to tell him of his...

Welcome to the Smoke House. The Smoke House is a real place where magazine and tobacco are sold. The Smoke House is also place where Pat, the writer, lets people tell there stories and his stories that he has pen. In this series - About War - Pat has the opportunity to tell about what he has seen as the result of 'War' that has rage through out the centuries about the result of men who wage this kind of conflict. In the first story -About War - tries to explain this element man does against each other - in explain this to his three year old grand daughter. In reading this collection - I hope...