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Non-poets need love, too! We may not have the mechanics of a Whitman or the insights of a Dickinson or the intrigue of a Poe, but onward we try, crafting our own brand of the art of poetry. Blue Ridge Sunsets strikes at the sensitivities of the 'everypoet', touching upon the elements of what moves each of us, perhaps not as eloquently as the greats of literature, but nonetheless real. Read on! Inside are some ninety-nine "poems", most of whic...

The follow-up companion volume to Say A Few Syl-la-bles!, Utter A Few Adjectives! is a compilation of short stories, poems, limericks, and comics. This delightfully insightful collection contains introspective studies, stories of the supernatural and the unexplained, reminiscences of a cherished childhood friend, recollections of the author's stay-at-home-dad experiences, the art of the five-line poem, and even offers experiments in stick-man ...

Lance Hawthorne, his life irrevocably altered by his witness of a horrific crime at the innocent age of ten, is cursed to shoulder the yoke of guilt for taking no action to report the crime's perpetrators, despite his having rock-solid evidence. His guilt deepens after the death of his beloved mother five years later, a death he is convinced he caused. Hawthorne drifts through life, his faith shattered, his risk-aversion having rendered him...

Words matter. Don't they? Of course they do, but the extent they do matter depends on how effective are the conveyances of their intended meanings. We assemble our words - our thoughts and feelings - from the building blocks of vowels and consonants. We string together these letters into syllables into words with the hopes our shades of meanings are clear and unambiguous. That, however, is not always the case. Are you more or less likely, for ...

Welcome to Raventon, Georgia, a quiet river town. Yeah, right! Taylor Smart and her mom, Susan, move to Raventon, into the antebellum house renovated by husband and dad, Mike Smart. Only Mike isn't around anymore, and no one seems to know what happened to him. Caves harbor secrets only the bravest dare explore. From day one, Raventon is anything but quiet -- and its residents anything but ordinary. Step into the Chamber of Skulls ... if y...

Book two in the Raventon Mysteries series, featuring Taylor Smart. Taylor and her two friends, Bobbie Leigh Harwell and Pilfree Romulus Bojo accept a mysterious offer to play a game of a series of challenges they at first believe is no more than a prank. The game soon takes on a completely different countenance whereby failure to comply with the letter of each challenge's unique rules is not an option. Once committed to playing the game, the t...

Seven of these nineteen stories are, for lack of a better description, tales with a Halloween-esque theme. I have tagged these stories in the Table of Contents. Some folks enjoy "spooky" stories, some don't. I wanted to give you a heads-up in case you fall into either of these groups. I've not yet figured out exactly what, in literary terms, a short story is supposed to accomplish, except to say it should do so with far fewer words than a nov...

Follow the adventures of Taylor Smart, America's latest and greatest teenage American heroine, along with her talented classmates, as they dive headlong into the strangeness that seems to gravitate to the town of Raventon, a community tucked quietly in the shadows of the hills and valleys of northwest Georgia. Come into their world, as the Raventon Three (Taylor Smart, Pilfree Romulus Bojo, and Bobbie Leigh Harwell) take on all challengers ...

Wolves of Freedom, a novel in two parts, chronicles the innocent perspectives of two young boys navigating their way within a culture and a force beyond their natural, youthful naivete, beyond their untarnished comprehensions. This is a tale of two boys born on the same day, on the same plantation, but into two starkly different worlds, one boy a son of a plantation slaver, the other born a slave. In Part One: Distant Thunder, these boys, as ...

Wolves of Freedom, a novel in two parts, chronicles the innocent perspectives of two young boys navigating their way within a culture and a force beyond their natural, youthful naivete, beyond their untarnished comprehensions. This is a tale of two boys born on the same day, on the same plantation, but into two starkly different worlds, one boy a son of a plantation slaver, the other born a slave. In Part One: Distant Thunder, these boys, as ...

A compilation of poems, essays, limericks, and short stories, BRIDGES is my expression of accumulated wisdom and observations spanning my sixty-four years on this earth. Many of these spans, these personal bridges, are not yet complete, as construction continues as long as I can draw a breath. Someday all will be complete, as will be yours. Maybe herein we will find some common ground, as well as some grounds for friendly dispute. Maybe our br...

I've not yet figured out exactly what, in literary terms, a short story is supposed to accomplish, except to say it should do so with far fewer words than a novel. My collection herein does not attempt to break unbroken ground or to achieve any other high-level goals. They're just stories that happen to be short, some shorter than others. Maybe some are well-written, maybe none of them is. But a book of Homegrown short stories will have a happ...

Lance Hawthorne, his life forever changed by a horrific crime witnessed at the innocent age of nine and the yoke of guilt carried after the death of his mother five years later, is a man who has attained a stature of comfort at the price of cynicism and indifference. Virtually afraid of his shadow, Lance wallows in risk-aversion and an inhibitive philosophy of self-preservation he deems the "long view". Lance has lived an adult life of conspic...

Welcome to Raventon, Georgia, a quiet river town... Having worked weekends for years renovating an antebellum home in the quaint town of Raventon, Mike Smart suddenly vanishes, leaving behind little more than a plaid shirt, a cell phone, and remnants of an apple pie. A year passes and still no sign of Mike. Lacking a body, authorities stop just short of declaring him officially dead, quietly believing it so. Taylor Smart and her mom, Susan, pi...

A tale of love, loyalty, war, commitment, death, and redemption, of growing up at a moment's notice, of discovering what's truly meaningful. Seventeen-year-old Jacob Hoffman, son of a Dunker pacifist, has a winsome and manipulative fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Rachael, who wants to marry him, or so she thinks. But Jacob's heart is set on a rifle, a sparkling Springfield rifled musket, and he's determined to get one - even if it kills him. Taki...

Taylor Smart and her two friends, Bobbie Leigh Harwell and Pilfree Romulus Bojo accept a mysterious offer to play a game of a series of challenges they at first believe is no more than a prank. The game soon takes on a completely different countenance whereby failure to comply with the letter of each challenge's unique rules is not an option. Once committed to playing the game, the three friends cannot abandon the game. Each challenge of the g...

July 3, 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. July 4, 2020, Raventon, Georgia.Now it gets weird. Book III in the Raventon Mysteries series, featuring Taylor Smart and the Raventon Three. The most incredible mystery they've encountered!For a season, special people come into your life.Paths intersect. They just do. You don't know why or for how long.And then they're gone.But, you're better for them.