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|  | | A Collection of Short Contemporary Stories
No central theme; none of the stories are related.
These stories are not directed toward any certain group of people; young, older, students, some even benign enough for a child. Others, of course, are not.
Table of Contents (13 short stories)
"Thirty Seconds to the Ground" (4000 words) (A skydive gone really bad
"My Husband, my Hero" (1400 words) (A nursing home love affair)
"Geek of the Road" (3000 words) (Believe it or not, the geek sometimes gets the girl.)
"For a Cup of Coffee" (3400 words) (Really, how much is a cup of coffee worth? For your sanity, sometimes quite a bit.)
"The Real Meaning of a Quarter" (1700 words) (One shiny little quarter can mean the difference between a good day, and a really bad one.)
"Don’t get too Close" (1700 words) (A nursing home res | |  | | America Gets Her First Woman President ...because she's a woman....
The coming election might just be the most important one ever, since Abraham Lincoln was elected and kept America as one nation.
In this election the two parties are irrelevant. One candidate loves America and wants to keep her safe and united, the other candidate will turn us over to the Muslims and the New World Order.
This short story I wrote specifically to influence the coming election. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are never mentioned specifically, but you will have no doubt who is being talked about. The story is fiction. It's 10,000 words. I'm putting it out for free because I "do" want to influence the election.
There are many reasons Hillary should not win the election, but if she does....
A fictional look at politics today, the election of 2016 is coming gangbusters.
What could happen 2 days after "this" first woman is elected president.
Please download the story, read it, and if | |  | | Boat Sailors
A young man raised on an Iowa farm wants a little more action in his life. He grows up rather quickly after joining the submarine navy during the Vietnam War.
Introduction
In the mid-nineteen-sixties some conventional fleet submarines were refitted to carry small teams of combat swimmers (Underwater Demolition Teams [UDT] and Sea, Land and Air teams [SEALs]) for a variety of combat operations. Their primary mission was beach reconnaissance. Subic Bay provided the main base for operations and was known as Detachment Alpha. Det Charlie operated from the USS Perch APSS 313, and later the USS Grayback LPSS 574, and USS Tunny LPSS 282.
All three submarines were left over from World War II, but all were still plenty spirited.
Many of the Perc | |  | | Callipygia
Callipygia is a place, or maybe just a state of mind, for if you go there, and partake, you will become changed...forever.
The Utopian world of Callipygia...just a legend...?
Too many women have gone missing in the region of the South Dakota Black Hills…plus there’s the rumor of a lesbian sex slave camp. And the sidebar of men smelling of alcohol wandering on back roads and telling of being abducted, drugged, tied up, and used as a stud.
Are the three stories related?
Stephanie Daniels, 28, will go undercover to find out. She’ll be glad to get out of town for awhile too, and get away from her boyfriend. He’s not abusive, exactly, but he’s also not the love of her life she has always hoped for. In fact, she feels, they live together expressly for the purpose | |  | | Daughters Book 1 The Heartbreak of Human Trafficking
Eighteen-year-old Emma has been abducted and will enter the "high-end" prostitution trade...after receiving some brutal training.
Thousands of young American girls have been abducted or lured from their normal lives and made into sex slaves. While many Americans have heard of human trafficking in other parts of the world -- Thailand, Cambodia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, for example -- few people know it happens in the United States.
The FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from 9 to 19, with the average age being 11.
UNICEF estimates that 2 million children per year are exploited in prostitution or pornography.
As many as 300 | |  | | Daughters Book 2 Emma Gets Payback
Emma, main character from Book 1, has rested from her ordeal as a prostitute, and now she and new best friend, Alexis, go to college, Emma to study child psychology and criminal justice so that she can help other young girls like herself, but finds she is not safe from the traffickers even at college.
| |  | | Daughters Book 4 (The Little Girl From Down the Street)
Emma (main character throughout the series) isn't mentioned in the following description because this is nine-year-old Fayanne's story. Book 3 carries straight into Book 4. Emma has returned home from college for a visit, and soon meets Fayanne.
Fayanne has pretty auburn hair and green eyes, but doesn’t smile much. At nine she’s losing her mom to Alzheimer’s. She’s too young to understand what it means when her mom gets that funny look in her eyes and then sometimes acts like she doesn’t even know her…but the worst is what her mom’s boyfriend does to her at night. She wonders if what he does is right, and good, and should she like it? She has questions but nobody to ask, until one day while walking to school she meets another man, a nice man. They talk, a lot, but she’s afraid to ask him that one question she really wants to know. | |  | | Daughters Book 5 (Sorority Animal House)
Emma is graduated with degrees in social work and criminal justice, working toward a black belt in Taekwondo, and has partnered with a young lady attorney. They will specialize in helping victims of human trafficking.
(A young woman “Little” says “No!” to the sorority’s brutal initiation rites, starts to leave, would have been stopped and forced, but her big sister “Big” has a change of heart and comes to her rescue.)
Emma, at 22, graduates from college with degrees in social work and criminal justice, will work toward earning her black belt in Taekwondo, and she and Jacey Wendell, attorney, will become partners with a specialty of helping human trafficking victims.
In Book 5 we meet Arianna, the angry. One year ago she experienced the sorority initiation rituals and has been ‘angry’ ever since, and practically salivates thinking of what she will do to her new little sister pledge. It was done to her so it’s only fair she get to do it to someone else—right?
We also meet Brandi, the innocent, just ou | |  | | Daughters Book 6 (She Went Back) Some Do
18-year-old Gabriella went to a singing modeling agency with no clue of the agency's underground business of human trafficking. When the boss lady takes her home for an in-depth interview, gives her an innocuous-seeming glass of root beer, the interview soon becomes a training session for prostitution with other women.
Emma, now 22 and main character throughout series, has a donated ranch where rescued trafficked girls go to live temporarily, learn to ride horses, self-defense, and firearms-handling. Gabriella—who has led a very sheltered life—does not fit in, and leaves before she should have.
Gabriella has black hair, blue eyes, alabaster skin, is very small, exactly what the slavers want in a young girl for sex trafficking. She just wants to sing. That's why she went to the "Nineteen Ways to get a Song Agency," to promote her beautiful voice. When she walked past the one-way mirror-window she had no idea that two slavers were watching.
Emma—along with her attorney partner, Jacey Wendell—through the donation of a small acreage with buildings, has created a ranch for rescued, trafficked, girls, where they can learn horseback-riding, self-defense, and firearms-handling. The goal | |  | | Daughters, Book 3, The Lure of Pornography
Emma, main character in the "Daughters" series, in her second year of college goes undercover into the dark world of pornography.
Emma, in her second year of college (studying psychology & criminal justice) goes undercover into the dark world of pornography.
Yes, it’s legal, but an online writer has stumbled onto a website showing brutal training methods and has posted a description for the whole world to see. It’s pretty clear he thinks the girls in the short clips are underage, which would make this particular site illegal.
One of Emma’s college mentors has seen the blog post, knows her plans, and contacts her. She reads the post, decides to find the location of the porn studio, and—one way or another— take it | |  | | Dying to Live
From birth to meeting a first friend, through ten years of school, dozens of jobs, and hundreds of heartaches and heartbreaks to semi-retirement, but what a never-ending fight.
My life till now.
(The life & times of Jimmy Nelson)
span style="color: #a56724">My true account of growing up on a storybook farm, experiencing a killer tornado, surviving teenage confusion, an adventurous four-year ride on a submarine during the Vietnam War, a skydive, not maturing into your regular adult, discovering the world is not a bowl of cherries, a crash to the bottom, and, finally, accepting that the only person responsible for me, is me. But first I had to descend into the deep depths of the emotional chasm./span>
span style="color: #a56724">Instead of describing more I will enter the contents:/span>
/p | |  | | New World Order Rising Bk 4 United Nations Arriving Islam Joins the fight
In politics we see many people (the elite) wanting one world with no borders. Talking about the New World Order people immediately think "conspiracy theory!"
But today theory is quickly becoming fact. Take a look at the Islamic-run UN's Agenda 21, and try to keep your mind open for a serious look.
Jocelyn was introduced in Book 1 as a seven-year-old held by the Illuminati. Once rescued she was quickly adopted by Carter Banks (POV) who went on to train her to become the warrior she is in Book 4.
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Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn has become leader of the North Dakota Militia. Her dear adopted Grandpa Carter was killed in the last battle. Chantal, her adopted mother, is very pregnant, and gives the job of leadership to Jocelyn.
Sixteen-year-old Dodie is staunch at her new adopted sister's side, helps in the rescue of Muslim sex slaves and ends up the adopted mother of Bessie, 7, | |  | | New World Order Rising Book 2 The New Civil War
Carter and his load of young girls rescued from the Satanist Illuminati (while avoiding the black-uniformed police) takes two weeks getting home from Kansas, to his sister’s farm, discovers she is militia leader of southeastern North Dakota, and learns North Dakota is the front line of resistance, among a group of states west of Interstate 29. Seven-year-old Jocelyn by proxy takes the place of the missing six-year-old Dodie, and brings new life to the heartbroken Carter and Chantal.
| |  | | New World Order Rising Book 3 Next Generation Fights On
Ten years have passed. Carter, 57, is now second in command under his daughter Chantal, 34. 17-year-old Jocelyn is staunch at his side, serves as his lieutenant, and always battle-ready. 16-year-old Dodie escapes her abductors, returns to North Dakota to join in the fight, reclaim her birthright, and is not too happy about Jocelyn's position with her mom and grampa.
| |  | | New World Order Rising, Book 1, The Abduction
Book 1 of a 3-book serial. The Illuminati, the elite of the world, have their people placed in all pulpits of power, and are ready to take control.
Book 1 of 3-book serial of “New World Order Rising,” The Abduction, is based on material written by conspiracy theorists.
The daughter and granddaughter of main character, Carter Banks, are abducted by professionals hired by the Illuminati. Carter hires childhood friend Harley Maxwell, ex-army special ops to help. Harley has a top of the line pickup for the GPS chase that leads from Fargo, ND, to a Satanist Illuminati camp in New Mexico.
On the way they see a storage area for casket-liners, a concentration camp, and witness a union striker roundup by black-uniformed police (super-soldi | |  | | Pharmacological Research Gone Berserk
Pharmacological Research gone Berserk; people are missing, except nobody actually misses them. As far as management knows the volunteers quit in the middle of the night, and are simply gone.
A medical mystery: Romance, some humor, a little sex & violence.
Shea McTory, 31, is way down on his luck. His photography career fell to the party scene. For a few years he’s been on the street, scratching a living. He gets more than bargained for when he answers the ad: VOLUNTEERS WANTED, FREE FOOD, PAY….All he wanted was a roof over his head, to earn some money, maybe get some good food. But the food is not tasty; he’s locked up with an adolescent-minded ex-sailor and a psychopath; he stumbles across secret, illegal & dangerous research; and meets Natalie, the love of us life. Frustrati | |  | | Strange & Weird Stories
The Unknown is as close as beside you. We just can't always see it.
Remember the old fifties and sixties Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone? I loved those stories. Usually nothing was really explained. Stuff just happened and we accepted it. These stories are something like that. Stuff happens and I don't try to explain it or justify it. No room for a lot of technical jargon that I don't understand so why try to sell it to my readers that I "do" understand it.br />
I had to categorize this as science fiction, and there are some I would call "futuristic" (see the excerpt: A complete short story, one of 13 included in book.) But besides SF there also is co | |  | | The Bellwether
Through Native American prophecy one man has learned of, and prepared for, the coming environmental and economic meltdown: The Mother of all Disasters.
Think of the 1800s, the wagontrains, and the people who crossed the prairie looking for a better life. Now fast-forward to the new millennium and the worldwide economy totally crashing, causing unbelievable chaos and violence. Through Native American prophecy, Aaron Hodges has been warned and envisions building a hidden colony to ride out the likely decades-long crisis. But that’s just prophecy; nothing is happening right now. He’s been traveling and working and needs to grow up a bit, and goes home to touch base with old friends, and to look for his long-lost girlfriend, finds her but fails w | |  | | The Light at the End of the Tunnel
A supernatural thriller.
Worst-of-the-worst criminal, Les Paul, is on death row awaiting his execution. The prison chaplain will read his last rites but wants to stop the excution due to a heretofore unknown rule of reincarnation.
If the state kills a worst-of-the-worst criminal, does he really die?
Worst-of-the-worst criminal Les Paul is on death row awaiting execution.
The chaplain is trying to stop the execution, and not because of a love for mankind.
Mrs. Leslie Markum in nine months will give birth to the reincarnation of evil.
Ms. Nicole Waters is nursing at the hospital where the infant, Les Paul, will be abandoned.
Cassandra is yet divided between her mother and father.
Patrolman Sikorsky is just doing his job and hoping to advance to detective.
Riley Stokes, ex-military, will t | |  | | Winter in July
The Cold War has reheated with some added players. The Doomsday Clock is ticking. It will reach midnight.
The world is still a dangerous place. Russia and China both have Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles still aimed at the United States, and likely most other nations of the free western world. India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, although, presently at least, we think, just aimed at each other. North Korea has nuclear weapons, but we don’t know, exactly, what they have. Iran badly wants nuclear weapons, no matter what their leaders are saying. And who knows how many other nations have nuclear weapons and/or the capability of acquiring them very quickly. Oh, yes, and terrorists: How many sui |
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Time Knight
by Todd Cheney
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 Time Travel, Sacrifice, and the Fate of Humanity
He must give up his future to save it.
"A gripping tale of time travel, sacrifice, and the power of human determination."
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