Teachers use it as a resource handbook in getting their students interested in creative writing through an unusual look at history.
Grounded
Sir Isaac Newton's
Not 'high fahlootin'
His theories prove their worth
And the Laws of Gravitation
Show this man's quite down to Earth!
...WHY did Napoleon stuck his hand into his breast pocket all of the time?
...What REALLY happened to Marie Antoinette?
...Sir Frances Drake might have been a letch?
Pam Munson Steadman, 1994 copyright
Excerpt
"A. Graham Bell
Introduced the phone
That many use today
But truth be known
He'd later moan,
"Wish that ringing would just go away!"
Blod Ties - Fantasy, Romance. Romantasy? A bit of whimsy for the weekend. A naive British tourist John Gormley takes a holiday in the ancient, remote kingdom of Perarboria. He does not suspect that his holiday love affair with a local beauty is desti
Homer's Ill Iliad & Odd Sea Odyssey (420 pages) is an adult satire/parody rewrite of the classic stories of the 10 year Trojan War and of the 10 year adventure of Odysseus trying to return home to his native Ithaca.
The Wholly Book of Genesis is a humorous satire on the first book of the Old Testament where the Story of Creation, the building of Noah's Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah and the families of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are thoroughly spoofed and broadsided.
