My nice book "Sam (a pastoral)" is FREE on Kindle from September 10-14.  Now is your chance to visit that sweet old farm at the end of the wild old hollow, where Ruthie and Sam figure out how to get along with each other.

This is a growing-up story, a small-towny, down-on-the-farmy sort of story, about a kid's vision of Paradise: a farm and a horse to love. But every Paradise contains a bit of Pandemonium, and every sunny day can have a thunderstorm in it. The troubles come, as they invetably do, and the kid holds on to her old horse for dear life as her father abandons the family, the kids in town treat her rough, and the shadow of winter falls on the farmstead.

Will things turn around for this hurt and angry child? Will she learn the lessons that the wise old horse has to teach her? Or will she continue to hit back at life for being so cruel and unfair?  Only Sam has the answer.