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|  | | A Collection of Short Stories
A Collection of Short Stories, not for children
This is a collection of short stories for those folks older than twelve
| |  | | Growing Up Parker With Mama
Growing up outside of the local clique.
Growing up in a small town on the outside of the local clique was hard enough, but growing up with Mama, who was seemingly incapable of love, was no picnic either. Being the fourth of seven children, the fourth girl with three brothers younger, I was definitely the one in the middle. Despite the stigma of my family name, growing up in the fifties in the picturesque red rocks of Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona, afforded me the things that molded my malleable mind as a child, allowing me to connect with the things of nature, the things that God had given me. We can al | |  | | In The Path of The Dragon
Wildfire is a terrifying experience, especially for a toddler left orphaned by the flames. The destruction left behind is life changing to all of those faced with the chaos involved, not to mention the pain of dealing with devastation in its aftermath.
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Doni Cassidy found herself caught in the path of the dragon, the worst wildfire to ravage her mountain retreat in local history. Trapped in the chaos of the flaming maelstrom, she managed to find her way to her small cabin nestled higher up on the mountain, on a small alpine lake. The harrowing experience is enough for an adult to contend with, but for Chelsea, a toddler left burned, disfigured, and orphaned by the flames, the experience proves the extent of human strength and perseverance. Little do the local residents know about | |  | | Joaquin, Eternally Pakwa, Book One
Labeled a half breed, Joaquin, half Hopi and half white, has a long journey ahead when he is orphaned shortly after his mother dies in child birth with his stillborn sister.
In the 1880s the United States Government expanded their idea of civilizing the Indians through forcefully removing Indian children and placing them in Indian boarding schools throughout the west, where they intended to educate the children in Christianity and the white man’s way. In 1887 the government built a boarding school in Keams Canyon Arizona and they began removing Hopi and Navajo children from their homes, sending them away from their families and placing them in the newly built boarding school. In 1938 Joaquin Neilsen, a young half breed orphaned Hopi boy that his | |  | | Joaquin, The Test of Fortitude, Book Two
Joaquin is his friend's guardian after their stent in Korea where his friend lost his leg. Life on the ranch becomes his anchor, his salvation, while he continues to relate to his Hopi ancestry.
Joaquin’s story continues as he becomes the guardian of Rudy, once the two men return home from Korea, Joaquin with a plate covering a hole in his skull from shrapnel wounds, and Rudy less than whole, missing one leg. Even when he finds and marries the perfect woman, his life still has its share of loss and disappointments. His Hopi grandmother’s teachings guide him along the way, as well as the mental images of the lessons she taught him in his youth. The desert he loves remains as his solitude when life becomes too complex, and it turns up surprises that even he di | |  | | Joaquin, When Autumn Comes, Book 3
Joaquin's journey has been long and is approaching its end.
Life is seldom what we expect it to be. When Joaquin finds he must give up the life he loved for a vice he couldn't defeat, one thing leads to another. But life isn't through with him yet. When an old foe steps into the picture he's reminded that he is a man of peace, and warned of the dangers by words Grandmother spoke so many years ago, "Coyote is a Trickster, Pakwa." He is alone, but yet not alone, as he is blessed through bonds developed with the children whose lives ultimately touch his own. Through it all he is reminded of his Hopi roots, and hi | |  | | Libby's Ashes
When unlikely friends are bound together by a common thread, that thread can be composed of anything. In the case of five newly acquainted individuals, it is the thread of love one elderly man holds for his departed wife, and the lengths he is willing to go in order to honor her last wishes. It is the thread of shared hardships, sorrow, and healing, and it all came about by way of a contest, the prize for which was an autumn journey aboard a hot air balloon into the unknown; a journey that cemented friendships to last a lifetime amongst a group of unsuspecting strangers.
div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 113%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt">span style="line-height: 113%; font-size: 11pt">The one thing Oscar Metford wished for above all else on his ninety-first birthday was the ability to fulfill his late wife’s last request. That he be able to take her ashes alone, just the two of them, his last expression of his love for her, and deposit them along the Alpine lake the two of them so cherished in their youth. But age and infirmity made the trek into the mountains and up to the lake on foot or even on horseback impossible for | |  | | Maggie: The Early Years
The story of Maggie Blackford follows her from the age of four through young adulthood, when she marries a man she barely knows on the spur of the monent at the tender age of eighteen.
div style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt">At the turn of the nineteenth century a broad mix of nationalities had intermingled within the United States, creating a nation of cultures that were unique. Sometimes the mixtures created personalities that exhibited indifference, coupled with the hardness of granite. Due to the hardships encountered in an unforgiving environment, harshness of personality became common. Especially on farms where families were intentionally large in order to insure that there would be enough hands within the household to handl | |  | | Maizie And The Sorcerer's Spell
Maizie and her brother Timmy aren't their stepmother's favorites, they are tormented by their three step siblings and resented by their stepmother, until along with their faithful dog the two children discover something wonderful.
While her father is always tending to Greandfather's business, Maizie discovers she has amazing abilities after the surprise meeting of a Faery named Puddles. The Faery magically appears when Maizie makes a wish while huddled inside the woodbox with her brother Timmy, being punished for an imagined infraction of the rules set forth by their unreasonable stepmother Rhotundra. | |  | | Mischief Reigns
Tracy's first meeting with Mischief leaves her frightened. Never having had experience with the things in nature, she was pretty much a greenhorn when it came to wild animals.
When Tracy is sent to stay with her aunt on a ranch in Northern Arizona, she has no idea what is in store for her. Being a city girl who has never been in the country, much less in the woods, the entire time on the ranch becomes an adventure, beginning with her chance encounter with Mischief. | |  | | Ophthello
Jordan Bingham encounters an unknown assassin as well as paranormal friends and foes as she flees from her husband's murderer.
When Jordan Bingham flees from an unknown assassin that took the life of her young husband, her flight leads her to encounters with the paranormal and an assassin of a different type. Not only does the individual who murdered her husband seem to have followed her to California where she thought she and her unborn child would be safe from harm, but someone she least expects wants to see her dead as well. The frightening, heart pounding twists and turns she encounters are mind bending, but she manages to hold onto her sanity as well as her life with the help of an elderly woman on | |  | | Ramblings of a Mad Woman, Effervescence from the Soul
A collection of writings.
Between the covers of this book one will find a collection of philosophical thoughts, poems, and prose. They're sort of like the collection of debris found in a bird's nest before being scattered by life's seasonal, provertial storm. It's always amazing what can be found in a bird's nest that the creature gathers in the pursuit of feathering her temporary abode. So are the ramblings of this woman that some might label as unbalanced, as intense and ludicrous as those thoughts may prove to be.
| |  | | Red Sky: The Sequel to Maggie
This is the story of a young mother who becomes a widow, who loses her identiy, and faces what she assumes is a life of raising her children alone, as the man she falls in love with will not allow a relationship to blossom due to his loyalty to his friend that he discovers loves Maggie as well.
Life isn't the bright future Maggie imagined when she married on the spur of the moment. Her story continues in the Southwest, as she is left with an infant and toddler to raise alone after she suddenly finds herself a widow, and ends up on as a housekeeper on a ranch in the Arizona desert. It is her hope that the Arizona red sky is an indication that it will be clear sailing for her and her daughters, despite the many mishaps and hardships she encounters along the way.
| |  | | Reine
Reine is convinced she shouldn't love her stepmother, she doesn't realize there is room in her heart to love a multitude of people other than her father.
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w:Sn | |  | | Return Of The Trogon: The Sequel to Red Sky
This book is the second sequel of two, following Red Sky. Both stories are sequels to the book Maggie: The Early Years. This part of Maggie's life is filled with surprises as it finds her a widow a second time, alone in a large city with histerical amnesia, before she finally finds her way home to the Arizona desert again where she discovers, this late in her life, that she has fallen in love with her late husband's best friend.
Maggie's life has been filled with adventure and adversity, from nearly losing her husband to a cougar attack, to her hunting the cat down on the desert and killing it. Faced with an empty nest and besieged at an early age in her middle fifties by near blindness, the effects of cataracts, life’s surprises aren’t finished with her yet. When Maggie witnesses the accident that claims her husband’s life, she is drawn into a self-protective state of hysterical amnesia. When she regains her memory and eyesight in a cold, inhospitable city, she is unexpectedly reintro | |  | | Rhyme Time
A Collection of Silly Poems and Short Stories
A Collection of Silly Poems and Short Stories with pen and Ink illustrations by author. | |  | | Something Shiny for Timmy
Timmy is amazed when everyone wants to eat his shiny discovery.
Timmy asks all of his friends and family what the shiny thing might be, but everyone's opinion is different, and everyone thinks it is something they want to eat. | |  | | Starlight, Starbright
When Lynn Hutchinson realizes her nightmares are in fact reality, she understands the years of mental anguish from night terrors and depression are caused by something horrifying but quite real.
When Lynn Hutchinson realizes her nightmares are in fact reality, she understands the years of mental anguish from night terrors and depression are caused by something horrifying but quite real. Although she doesn't want to remember the source of her night terrors, the memories are thrust upon her anyway, as well as the kowledge of the purpose for the horrifying events, which leaves her in a state of terror. | |  | | The Attic
Jeff and Rachael are excited about becoming parents, they foresee a bright future for their babies. But the nightmare that is in their future is unforseen. The forgiveness in their hearts comes forth at a time when others would be seeking revenge.
div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">i>span style="line-height: 115%; color: #1f497d; font-size: 14pt">Terror inhabits the neighbor’s attic, and Rachael is about to experience it firsthand. It is only by the intervention of a young man who appears to be an accomplice to her captor that she and her offspring survive the horror that her neighbor has in store for her. /span>/i>/div>
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div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">i>span style="line-height: 115%; color: #1f497d; font-size: 14pt">This is a suspenseful tale of sur | |  | | Three Short Stories of Fiction
Three Short Stories:
The Silver Strand Society
Forget Me Not
Sharon
i>The Silver Strand Society/i>/b> is the misadventures on Harleys of three older women seeking a change from the mundane lives of the silver haired societ.
i>Forget Me Not,/b>/i> surrounds the events that turn a young woman's life upside down, involving murder and the paranormal that keeps her from harm.
i>Sharon/b>/i>, depicts the life of a woman as she approaches middle age triumphantly while facing the painful reality of an abusive relationship.
| |  | | Toby Takes A Nap
Toby Turtle finds a strange place to take a nap.
Mishaps happen, but Toby Turtle will be more careful in the future where he decides to take a nap, and his friend Kandi Coatimundi will be careful to look more closely at the beautiful river stones she chooses for her garden wall. |
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