The first novel in a series called “Witnesses”, which is about America’s past, especially the 17th century and the, Other topics include healing from warfare, the courage of ordinary people, and the struggle against a destructive cult.
"In the Time of the Scythians" is now available as a print-on-demand paperback from Amazon's CreateSpace.
Paul Kingsley -- journalist, teacher, veteran, story-writer -- begins to fight the influence of a destructive cult called the Scythians. Unknown to him, others also take up the struggle. The novel also includes a novella and two short stories Kingsley wrote about American wars in the 17th century and the recent past. This is the first of five volumes in a series called "Witnesses".
A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
The Apple Tree Blossoms in The Fall, is the life journey of Carineh - a child, a teenager, a wife, a mother, but most of all a woman of purpose. From stories of her parents held-up by bandits; the white donkey gifted by Khomeini; her father's death f