This collection of short stories is peopled with characters who boldly face the sorrows and strains of everyday life, seeking relief in a smile and redemption in words of compassion and honor
Gayle and Gail grew up together in a small middle-class town in Southern California. Facing their 50th high school reunion, they gathered their thoughts, hopes, dreams, accomplishments and disappointments in a blog-form for their own personal amusement. Looking back -- and looking forward -- at 60!
Accomplished surgeon Adam Montgomery is every nurse’s nightmare—and especially for Katharine Darling, his colleague in Doctors Without Borders. Though warm with patients, the arrogant doctor is cold with his staff. But after Adam barely survives several attempts on his life, his gruff manner changes under Kate’s tender care. Yet Kate hides her deeper feelings for him, certain that his wealthy family can never accept a woman with a past. Will the transformed doctor show the woman he’s fallen for that he needs her as a workmate...and a wife?
We live in a time of fear and trembling. We see the fear on the faces of those who have come through an earthquake or hurricane. We see fear on the faces of those who lost loved ones due to a terrorist attack. We see fear as a mother sits with her babe, whom she canat nurse because she dried up from lack of nourishment. We see fear as new strains of diseases flood our world. Fear, fear everywhere.
Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on childhood—and for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and more. Travel can whisk us away to craggy mountainsides and sunny coastlines or bustling cities and mysterious jungles. Travel can excite and rejuvenate or intimidate and overwhelm. These sixteen stories reflect upon our immense, intriguing world and our explorations of it, whether you choose to follow the beaten path or abandon it.
The stories within this book are about a man who had no fear. His walk through this Earth was like no other. He toyed with death on every corner, from operating an automobile to his negligence in handling gas or propane to the drinking of unsanitary water. He was able to walk out the boom of the crane 40-50 stories above ground, as height did not bother him. In all aspects of life he took chances, for he had the faith of a child in God. Inside these pages you will read of just some of the calamities he had while attempting to skirt around death.
Boston, 1763 the Seven Year war is ending, but what Eliza doesn’t know is a new war is coming, a conflict that could threaten everything and everyone she loves. Come on this journey with her as she tries to find her way in this rapidly changing world of war and intrigue which tests her loyalty and love. Can she protect her family while also saving the land and home she loves, or is she destined to lose it all? “Till I Come Home” is borne out of my extensive work in genealogy and pays homage to our ancestors, especially the ordinary women whose accomplishments were anything but ordinary. Our ancestors live on through stories like these. Also, discover “On the Wings of the Red-Tailed Hawk,” the story of Eliza’s great-great grandmother and her journey to Colonial America, available now on Amazon.
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