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His name is Joseph James Pennyway, or Jojay for short. His world is the lower York Road uber-blighted corridor of Baltimore’s St. Pius V parish, and if Charm City’s Archdiocese had an absolute hell on earth, this just might be it. No one would blame Jojay if life hardly mattered to him. He learned much longer ago to develop much broader shoulders than his immediate universe required of him.What else could he do as the only Catholic young man amidst Pentecostal and Evangelical neighbors who’ve tried to recruit him into their lodge since his eighteenth birthday? Who is he supposed to be in life, with a father in Jessup prison, and a mother addicted, insane, and homeless since God knows w...

Madeline Kloppleman and Kim-Jack Donaldson are a couple in their mid-twenties. She’s white, Jewish, privileged, and ready to marry, but only if the ceremony is in Antarctica on New Year’s Eve. He’s a black, inner city, high school science teacher, trying to keep his students alive until graduation. Madeline is singing her way toward a recording contract. Kim-Jack is about to invent the perfect pizza box. When one of his students is arrested on Christmas Eve, hours before they’re scheduled to depart for the frigid nuptials, he’s assigned the task of legal guardian, but the student has to be with him around the clock...even at a wedding at the South Pole.

In the book of John, the Bible records the story of a SamaritanWoman who met Yeshua (Jesus), at the well’ in the town of Sychar. Yeshua was alone at the well, which was unusual. The woman coming to get water in the heat of the day was also unusual. Could it be that this meeting was divinely ordained by God? Did demons try to stop the woman from meeting the Messiah? Did the angels fight and overcome the dark angels? Have you ever stopped to wonder why this woman was married five times and was currently living with a man who wasn’t her husband?Although this woman remains NAMELESS in the Biblical story, History records her name! History also records the names of her sons and her sister...

“You’ve really been married to him for forty years?” Kelly sighed. “That’s true love.” “No, that’s called persistence. True love is when it’s raining and the umbrella is too small for both of you and your husband holds it over your head to keep you dry. True love happens when there’s only one toilet available and you both have to go, but he lets you go first even if it means peeing in his pants. True love is him taking the middle seat on an airplane even though there’s an obese person sitting next to the window whose flab is overflowing into his space.” Margie shook her head. “Forty years together has nothing to do with true love. A forty-year prison sente...

Second Edition, newly revised for KDP2023 Sports Category Finalist--American Fiction AwardsWhat would you do if you were the 12-year-old new ace pitcher of a very small town baseball team, and you and your teammates went on in one magical year to represent your far western Oklahoma panhandle roots at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and you were much too embarrassed beyond mere words to see your own mother cheer you on in the bleachers as you take the big stage hundreds of miles away?This is Sooner’s situation, and his story is Going to Williamsport, as he experiences his mom suffering through acute paranoid psychosis during the early years of deinstitutionaliz...

Remember when you were young and you had dreams of what you would be when you grew up? We all had dreams when we were children. Then “life happens” and our dreams get put on a shelf and layered in dust. Sometimes, circumstances look as if there is no possible way we can reach our goals. History records the story of a young woman that had a vision for her future. Suddenly, all her dreams seemed like mountains of impossibility. For twelve years she suffered, not knowing why. Yet, she clung to the promise that she was blessed and her story would be told for many generations. Walk with me as I uncover the untold possibilities of this woman’s life, as she pursued her dreams, comin...

“We’re more than eagles, we soar even higher!”You might expect such a team motto, inscribed on the patch of their uniform sleeves, to befit a boys’ youth soccer squad known as FC Aviators. And needless to say, when a boisterous bunch like these kids are based in an historic aviation city such as Wichita, Kansas, well, of course, you’d just expect them to naturally soar even higher on the pitch, right?Well, maybe not, if you asked their coach going way back to their little shaver days of Under 8 rec league before ultimately reaching the pinnacle of the Dallas Cup well into their middle school years at the Under 14 elite select level. Andy Founder is about as local as they come, and ...

Remember when you were young and you had dreams of what you would be when you grew up? We all had dreams when we were children. Then “life happens” and our dreams get put on a shelf and layered in dust. Sometimes, circumstances look as if there is no possible way we can reach our goals. History records the story of a young woman that had a vision for her future. Suddenly, all her dreams seemed like mountains of impossibility. For twelve years she suffered, not knowing why. Yet, she clung to the promise that she was blessed and her story would be told for many generations. Walk with me as I uncover the untold possibilities of this woman’s life, as she pursued her dreams, comin...

When online dating fails, is a singles cruise the best answer or the last resort?

Sixty-year-old accountant, Yancy Dellacort would rather lose a battle with the IRS than take another cruise. Yet when his wife of thirty-five years passes away and his attempts at online dating fail, his only recourse to find a life partner is to sign up for a Caribbean singles cruise on the Wind Seeker. Putting his best effort into the onboard search, Yancy discovers that romance at sea is worse than a ship without a rudder and that love and sex are often inseparable, even for senior citizens.

The introduction of a successful vaccine against Covid has produced the unintended side effect of rendering all gunpowder in the world inert. Every weapon from a six-shooter to an atom bomb is now useless. However, on a fifty-seven-acre island in the middle of the Doubs River that divides France and Switzerland, a dairy farmer's prized cheese spread has gone into short supply and the world is about to go to war over its loss. “Boulong's Cheese” is 70,000 words of spitfire humor, biting satire, and just what the world needs now that the end of the pandemic is in sight. It pits the Queen of England against the new, bald President of the United States, and gives the Pope a way out of a...

Against Stewart Goldfarb’s wishes, his eighty-one-year-old grandfather has decided to buy an alpaca ranch in Okaloosa County, Florida, and move south. However, his twin sister Kate, a geriatric nurse, would rather see their grandfather in a nursing home than a cowboy hat and insists that Stewart convince Grandpa to abandon his plan and remain in New Jersey where she can watch over him.

Their fears may be justified, as there are powerful people at work in Okaloosa County who want the grazing land that the alpacas need, and they’re willing to do anything to take that land away.

“Duke couldn’t blink. No words came from his mouth. Finally, he took a long deep breath, but the air in his lungs was frozen. His throat hurt when he swallowed. The more he looked at The Ghost, the more impossible it became to force his gaze in another direction. He’d seen those eyes before. He knew it in a place so deep inside that the feeling was without question. The Ghost wore an expression that no one could ever forget. It was the face of death. Duke Garvey was seeing the eyes of a nightmare from some time long before he was born.” Duke Garvey, a Jamaican-born detective newly promoted to the 84th Homicide squad in Brooklyn, NY never gave much thought to his Rastafarian upbr...