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The Secret of Their Midnight Tears (trilogy)
Three young men, two young women, one world war.
For the high school students of Marsh Point High School, the summer of 1941 was filled with baseball, dancing, and the intrigue of who was dating who. By the end of the year, they were being called upon to save the world. The first installment, The Secret of Their Midnight Tears follows five young people from their last summer of innocence through Thanksgiving 1942. No one was sure of how it would all end. Two of the boys have enlisted and the girls they left behind wonder if the boys they sent off to war will be the same ones that return to them. They are doing their part on the home front in The Boys We Knew, the second installment, which follows the impact of the war on their lives through summer, 1944. Finally, V-J Day arrives setting off a massive celebration in Marsh Point. The war, however, never leaves them. I’ll Remember You All ends 2019 and the 75th Commemoration of D-Day.
A Faith in the Crowd (as summarized by “the author.”)
You don’t know anything about me, but I certainly have an interesting story to tell. You see, I was killed by four janitors trying to change a light bulb, and before they could say, “Oops,” I found myself on a commercial flight to Heaven. I was assigned to Pleasant Valley, one of the 12 regions in Heaven, but they forgot to give me a job. I had nothing to do but hang out in Methuselah’s Diner that is until The Boss returned from a 10,000 year trip to the Andromeda Galaxy. He told me that I was the greatest historian that the world had ever produced, and asked me to write a history of the earth that would cover the time he had been away so that he could get a handle on all the changes that had taken place. (Turns out, The Boss can’t be everywhere at once.) Met some real interesting people, too, including the Reverend Mr. Whitebucks who was hell-bent, if you’ll pardon the expression, on converting souls even in Heaven. He ended up opening a casino in Las Vegas—there’s a Las Vegas in the Afterlife, too, and well, you’ll just have to read the book to see how it all turned out.
Everyone has a defining moment in his or her life; most of us have several. Sometimes, we recognize them when they occur; sometimes, we only recognize them in retrospect. Some are never known to us. Time Is A Pool is a collection of ten flash fiction stories in which the main character in each experiences a life-defining or life-affirming moment.
These stories are brief, but the moments about which they speak are eternal. The characters are universal: a single mom, a minor league baseball player, a former minister, a couple of women, a couple of men. One experiences a moment of redemption, one a moment of love, another a moment of understanding.
Time Is A Pool will make you laugh, make you think, maybe make you cry, and hopefully, give you hope about the possibilities that Life has to offer—possibly, in the next moment.
Swing Time (trilogy)
Chance and Faith are a couple of dance instructors who love the songs and dances from the past. As it turns out, the Past loves them, too, and brings to them problems of long lost love. They are not time travelers; more like Time happens to them. In Swing Time: A Swing Dancing, Time Warping Story, the two time detectives meet a World War II veteran who found a girl at a dance . . . the night before he shipped out. Time happens to Chance and Faith even more dramatically in Swing Time 2: Stardust in the Shenandoah when the Past not only comes to them, but they venture into the Past. Chance and Faith make returns to the Past once again in Swing Time III: Blame it on the Boogie, this time to the 1970s, but not to resolve a long-lost love. This time they must erase the bitterness of a student who believed that the disco ball would spin forever.
Every song in all three e-book versions are linked to YouTube videos. These novellas come with soundtracks!
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