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Elgin’s old life was nothing much, Beauty Wyoming was as beautiful and remote as one could get, a town of cowboys and Indians, in a setting of rangeland, mountains and lakes. Elgin Chalmer’s was a cowboy and a part breed black-sheep slacker living with his huge Siamese cat Humph in a forty year...

Interdiction is the story of the conflicts with reality faced by young people growing up today in a world of terrorism and violence. A quest for peace but how to approach that goal is on every young adults mind in this century. This is the story of two such youths faced with decisions typical of what...

The original version of this poem, was written over two year ago, and included in a book published under my pen-name. I have always been very pleased and proud of the original poem, which was done on a challenge from two friends to write a poem to go along with a picture. While it was never my intent...

Freeverse Unmasked is a collection of 29 poems and freeverse. if you like what you read please look for other works by Terry James on the smashwords website, including other freeverse work in 'Freeverse/Poetry In Motion'

On March 14, 2016, I published book of puns in Smashwords entitled Read My Best Puns To Boggle Your Mind. In this book you'll find twenty-four more. As with the last batch, these puns are originals, ones I invented. The last batch treated you nice; the puns were intended to be funny. The ones...

How far would you go to discover your purpose? Would you kill, cry or fall in love? Maybe all three. This book covers morality, evil, philosophy and satire as the characters in these short stories desperately try to discover their meaning. Watch rebellious angels try to deal with a human population...

Several of my overseas beta readers of The Realm asked about how Jill came to be - so I wrote A Lengthily Time Ago; now published as a free story on smashwords.com. - then they wanted one of Jill with more detail like I did with Jonathon's Story in the Bronx, New York. In this one I thought to make...

This is poetry about love. This is first part my my love poetry series. it is about love separation passion and much more. I have written poetry in all the fields including science nature politics economy emotions of people, people in distress and so on. please don't forget to read my books Poetic...

A short short poem based off of one of my paintings that is title, "Twilight on The River Bend." The poem is a description of that painting, and therefore takes on the painting's title. Currently, this painting, “Twilight on The River Bend”, is for sale and listed on ebay. I am...

Beavers and boat shacks, trains, planes, automobiles, true love, old love, sex, and hate. Everything wrapped up into a big ball of words. There are stories and poetry in everything. Everything we see every day has beauty or horror that can be put to words. The daily exercise of performing these...

Driving back to Mendenhall late at night in a thunderstorm, Chief of Police Kate Williams stops to check out an accident only to find herself fighting for her life. A Mendenhall Short Mystery by the author of The Shoeless Kid and The Tuxedoed Man.About Marcelle Dubé:Marcelle Dubé grew up...

Ilgiprart and Oogithap, Electrosquids from the Fungus Asteroid are sent to earth on a dangerous mission. They have to collect samples to send back to their laboratory on the asteroid. They need to learn more about the planet in order to put their plan of world domination to work.They land somewhat...

Mike Resnick introduces us to Lucifer Jones, a con man traveling in Africa presenting himself as a missionary. As the author puts it, Lucifer unfortunately "isn't the brightest bulb in the lamp" and mirth rather than wealth is often the result of his endeavors. Volumes II and III...

“What sort of thing were you looking for, Bob? Sleepwear? Like this one?” I ran my hands slowly over the side-swells of my breasts and down to my hips, showing off the smooth satin. “Um … maybe,” he said. “Or maybe an … um … underwear … you know … set.” “A bra...