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Although they had always dreamed of having a family, tall, horse-faced Frances and stubby, one-eyed Jack had reconciled themselves to a lifetime of loneliness. Then one day, out of nowhere, an infant is dropped into their midst. A fairy tale for adults!

Set in Alabama over a period of fifty years beginning in the late 1940s, this exquisite collection of fifteen short stories provides snapshots into the lives of different characters.The link between the stories is Billy, AKA William Vernon Johnson. Though they can be read as stand-alone stories, the collection chronicles the life of young Billy from a young boy to a man enjoying his role as a grandfather. Billy/William narrates several stories...

Devoted mother Cassie Carter is hard working and dedicated to running her small farm in Georgia. She tends to her home and sickly son daily while her truck driver husband is away on long hauls across the country. Damaged romantic Paul Hamilton has a void in his life that leaves him wandering from affair to affair, empty and unfulfilled. He identifies with the haunting poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, yearning to capture an elusive love. One day, in ...

Thanks, PG!:Memoirs of a Tabloid Reporter recounts the life and adventures of reporter Billy Don Johnson during his 20 years (1975-1995) working for the fictional tabloid The National Insider. After his dreams of becoming a crusading journalist with daily newspapers are dashed, Billy throws himself into the wild world of diets, household tips, ghosts, UFOs, weird history, and celebrity scandal, all of which is designed to please Padrone Gallio...

Thirteen Stories is a collection of the most popular short stories and novellas written by author John Isaac Jones over the past 15 years. This volume covers a wide range of themes common to Jones' work including birth, death, greed, loneliness, marital infidelity, sibling rivalry and unconditional love.The stories: *Going Home *Boone *For Love of Daniel *Lonely Magnolia *Annie *The Agreement *The Surrogate *Pauline *Serpentus Saragossii *Temb...

What a story!" - Amazon reviewerAfter the Johnson family learns the youngest daughter is pregnant and unwed, they devise an elaborate plan to keep it a secret from the outside world.Part of that plan includes a lavish lie which is designed to make the scheme seem more believable.Once the child was born, however, this lie would not only come true, but change the lives of every member of the family.A story about petty jealousy, sibling rivalry a...

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