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.
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. Mistaken identity. And barman Eamon Foley is running for his life.
Nine months later Foley is in a crowded pub, and his brother-in-law is shot dead.
