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|  | | Home is Where the Heart Lived
Collection of short stories and poetry
Collection of short stories and poems that demonstrate how easy it is for circumstances to force people into homelessness. It could happen to any of us, yet, as a society, we seem reluctant to protect the safety nets. | |  | | Rena's Silver Lining
Story of friendship and family dynamics
When spirited and privileged Rena Boiles accepts a customer service spot instead of the management position she applied for, her life takes a big turn. Intriguing co-worker, Clarice, knocks the sting out of her disappointment about the misleading job posting on the first day. In this touching story, as two girls who appear to have little in common become close friends, the silver lining is that each ends up appreciating what she learns from the other. Those lessons help them work through struggles with their respective mothers.
| |  | | Song in My Heart
Penny Sue has a song in her heart, follow her through ages 7 - 22.
After Penny Sue's parents whisk her away from her home and the grandparents she loves, she spends years blaming herself for disrupting the lives of all the adults she knows. Her self-loathing only gets worse when her alcoholic mother lashes out at anyone who tries to help her daughter. The only way Penny can deal with it all is by keeping a song in her heart. When she finally hits real stages and adds applause to the other addictions she picked up along the way, it seems even her escape isn't really what she though it was. This story of music, addictions, and difficult family dynamics spans | |  | | Terre Bluff under Attack
Political Parody
If Emil’s father didn’t own most everything and everyone in Terre Bluff, Emil would probably be delivering pizzas or stocking shelves instead of holding the title of mayor. Only a well-funded, unethical campaign could put a man with Emil’s level of incompetence in office, but neither funding nor mimicking his father's lack of ethics won him the respect or independence he wanted from his father. When his nephews take his father’s Jaguar for a joyride and it ends up crashing through the front of a grocery store, Emil is determined to find a fall guy for the ca |
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