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Perspectives: a hypodermic needle, a difference between Florida and Berlin, a dive bar in New York, 
a Kurdish emigration, too much mezcal, a Caribbean hurricane clean-up, a Chinese engineer in Dallas, a bed-ridden man dependent on the bottle, and a world-famous comedian. The Five B’s: thirty-three summers of cricket, the consequence of chauvinism and testosterone, seventy years in the mind of a flawed genius, the triumphs and tragedies of a modern-day missionary in Liberia, and the experiences of those around the author with restrictions imposed in New Zealand and Norway during the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, Jameson Alex West revisits ten of his essay ...

Are you familiar with the Bible and its stories? Could there have been alternative outcomes to many of the Bible’s tales? These stories take a look at the world’s most famous book from an altogether different angle! The Bible is the world’s best known book and the original best seller, reaching homes all across the world and acting as a reference for billions of Christians. The stories within it are some of the best known as well, and even if you aren’t a regular church attender you are likely to have heard them or have some passing knowledge of many. Inside this book, Behind The Scenes of Biblical Turning Points, author Floyd Larck takes a somewhat different look at what may have ha ...

If you had to write a fantastic story about a fascinating character who has superhero powers, which details would you include? The idea of this project started a few years ago on Facebook when people would engage in a 30 Days of Thanks project starting in November and carrying on thru Thanksgiving. They’d post something once per day that they were thankful for, like their family or their friends or their job or even their car. Normally, they'd quit after a couple days. Obviously, I didn't. One of my ideas was “30 Days of Dad”; an entire month filled with stories about my father, a former Navy SEAL in Vietnam who raised his family in Texas in peace, far from the riverbanks of the s ...

Horse stories.

For years the author slept in a tent, whizzed in a can, up in the dark, battling nerves and heat, chasing birds, boar and deer . . . What was it, he wondered? Among roadrunners, ex-dinosaurs, bump-in-the-night visitors and infernal temperatures, a narrative ensues. Only then is a sense of gratitude and revelation found in the dry wash of a season’s finale. John Graham is a California artist, oral historian and the creator of the El Fornio Story Cycle where Junipero Serra’s heart can be found in a jar. WWW.ELFORNIO.ORG

In this book, I continue to share my life with you beginning with my Happiest day and then the process of what I went through to get there while trying to live life without Love. As I went through life struggles I had no choice but to lean and depend on God. There are a lot of people going through some if not all of the same situations that I will be sharing with you, because they too are looking for their Happiest Day. I pray that you are blessed and encouraged to hang in there while YOUR process leads YOU to recovery. The Author

The CC Rockvale Challenge B class of 2022 has compiled an anthology of short stories. This reflects second semester work done by six students.

"Tangled Up In Plaid" is a collection of short stories including "Robin," "Purgatory," "The Diary of Marshall Kemp," and "Phantom Pain."

The endless summer of youth drifted by, cloudless as the skies above, fragrant as the damp earth below, and as inevitably to be mourned as the passing of young love. There was no time before this time, and there would be no time after it that mattered as much. There was only now; the infinite now.

In the Classical Conversations program the Challenge B (8th grade) students each year embark on a semester long writing project. The project is a creative writing short story entirely from the students imagination. This anthology is the culmination of that project. Includes the following works: The King's Call La Vie Est Belle (Life Is Beautiful) Shifting Sands The Skeleton King You Win Some, You Loose Some