Different from their peers and family members, coping was difficult.   Decisions were made "for their own good" by parents.   Would the future hold better things for them?   Felicity and Steven, deridingly known by their separate families as FAT and Sticks, not only survived, but thrived once they left the degrading atmospheres imposed on them early in their lives.

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Romance

Smiles, Carol

Historical

Publishamerica Inc

An Unconscious Path

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

An Indian legend says, "As much mischief can happen through unkind or careless words as with flying arrows. Evil comes like a storm. Lit by sunlight, clouds appear like silver foxtails to sweep away devastation. When we see silver foxtail clouds, we are reminded to guard our thoughts and tongues lest evil follow in their wake." Andy Dillynn, for some unknown reason, is chosen to be like the foxtail clouds and right the potential evil another man’s words and careless thoughts have set in motion. Being swept through time, he finds himself masquerading as someone else...twice.

Silver Foxtail Clouds

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Human trafficking and love are as far apart as one can get or so Lily and the other residents of Oregon think. To the residents of Traders Island they go hand in hand. Lily had a rough start in life but when she married money she thought she was set. She is introduced to Traders Island by her husband at the time. Years later, after his death she finds true love on the island. But the road to love isn't always paved with good intentions. Lily finds love at 39. But her life is a roller coaster until her death at age 98. Beautiful, intelligent, witty and bipolar Lily was all of these and more. She has more money than she can use in a lifetime but it doesn't bring her happiness. The Lily Rose is her story, told in her own words and the words of those who loved her.

Thornrow Secrets

Action & Adventure

America Star Books

<p>Different from their peers and family members, coping was difficult. Decisions were made for their own good"""" by parents. Would the future hold better things for them? Felicity and Steven, deridingly known by their separate families as FAT and Sticks, not only survived, but thrived once they left the degrading atmospheres imposed on them early in their lives""</p>

PublishAmerica

We Call It Home

Collections & Anthologies

Within the burning hut the woman, too weak from the multiple births to try to save herself or her newborns, gazed upon their tiny faces. Her eyes turned toward her hearth. Upon the mantle were many crystals. They sparkled in the fire's light. Quickly she intoned a 'prayer of life'. Not for herself, but for the innocents beside her. "Maker of light, Creator of life and love, carry these souls into safety. Bring them together again sometime in the future. Give them peace and joy. Give them lives of abundance and creativity. I commit them into your hand, you who has formed us with your mighty thoughts. We come back to you now." All that had been, both flesh and wood, become smoke and ashes, floating heavenward. Carried by the wind, it disappeared into the mists of the dawn. Only a hint of her final words lingered. "Jennifer's flowers shall live on." As the early morning light heralded the new day, the song of the night birds was once again silent.

When a Night Bird Sings

Mountain Valley Publishing ,LLC

Berlinda Weaver was taken to wife at the advanced age of fifteen, not because she was a beauty, for she was far from conventional standards, but because she had developed her talents to an art and because she was wide of hip and strong of arm. She was the youngest in a family of five. The only girl. The only one of the lot that was proficient at the family trade. Weaver was more than the name they bore. It was a talent handed down from father to son, father to son, until Berlinda's brothers were found to be clumsy and unable to manipulate strands of wool into masterpieces of cloth. Gustafus Weaver, literally wept with grief as each son, one after the other, tangled the wool into such that looked like rags. Disgusted and sorrowful, he sweated blood trying to train them. "They are good for only herding the sheep, not creating the patterns." he shouted to Gerta, his wife. "It is your fault. I should have known better than trust that you, who knows only how to slop hogs, could give me sons to carry on the tradition." Ducking her head and believing his harsh words, she tried time and again to bring forth just one boy child that would satisfy her husband. Four times she tried and four times she failed. Her fifth and last pregnancy not only turned Gustafus into a raving demon of a man, but gave Gerta chills of horror because it was a girl child and crippled. A iii club foot twisted a swollen leg and drove the unhappy mother to abandon the child in the woods.

3 Birds in Flight

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An Unconscious Path

Silver Foxtail Clouds

Thornrow Secrets

Throwbacks

We Call It Home

When a Night Bird Sings

3 Birds in Flight