Based on the recollections of an elderly man who remembers when he was a boy during the Civil War.
Ma always said there wasn’t no bad men just men that had to do bad things ‘cause of what was going on. Us being created in the image of God, and all. But that was before the bushwhackers came while we was at church and burned down our house and took our old milk cow, Bessie.
This opens the story of a young boy forced to show the enemy where his best friend lives. It appears in the anthology published by Ozark Writers League in November, 2005.
First Place Winner in historical fiction in the Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in children's literature, and named a U.P. Notable Classic.
Feel like you are in the moment nearly 100 years ago with a young girl, daughter of Finnish immigr
Book I of Southern Swallow Series – 12th Century scholar Li K'ai-men takes command of his first official assignments during a time of political unrest and barbarian invasions.
Fifth Book of the Southern Swallow Series. Nan Ya and his crew take a final adventure into a mythical Chinese universe and become entangled in court intrigue.
