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This eclectic mixture of poignant memoir, bristling Op-ed, and literary criticism focuses on three of the most serious issues facing society today--gay rights, the environment, and universal healthcare. With both sarcasm and insight, Johnny Townsend analyzes the arguments against human progress and shows us a way out of the repressive policies that confound reasonable people everywhere.

Passion, Connection, & Affection: Poems about Love and Relationships is about the joys of being alive and being in love. A lifetime of experiences and a celebration of the uniqueness of every person are reflected in this collection of poems.  The poems tell the author's story authentically...

Searching for better land, the Elam Brown Party headed originally for Oregon Country during the Mexican War, but diverted to the Mexican province of Alta California. At Johnson’s Ranch, Bill Johnson told them his 20,000 acres had been purchased for a hundred and fifty dollars! The Party...

In an island nation blessed by the warm waters of the gulf stream, the most severe winter in Ireland's history added to the misery, the suffering, starvation and death experienced by Ireland's peasant population. Their main food source, the "lumper" potato had been destroyed for the second...

A U.S. submarine captain fights, along with his crew, against the Japanese in the World War II Pacific Theater of Operations. We start with his boat newly arrived in western Australia, and operating in enemy waters in Southeast Asia and the Philippine Islands. He also tries more than...

Lauderdale President Henry Wade Smith V won the War of Reunification in the Spared Territory’s 70th year. Year 72 finds “Harry” bored and antsy. Such is not the case for his lovely wife, Colbert President Catherine Ragland Smith; “Cate” thrives under the peaceful challenges of family and...

Seventy years after terrorists unleashed a weapons-grade virus on earth, a lone cluster of mankind survives in the Shoals Area of NW Alabama. Why? A U. S. Air Force C-130 carrying the only supply extant of the “Mad Flu” vaccine crash-landed at the Muscle Shoals Airport in Colbert County. Two draconian...

The Tortured Jewel is the story of a shelter dog who after being caught by the county escaped and climbed like a cat over their wire enclosure. Bijou tells her own story of her illness and the attempts to cure the problem. She explains how she waited to be adopted, about her new family,...

Hard work, lots of reading, factory jobs took me from a poor, uneducated family , through BS and MA, then into intelligence work, then 29 years of postings at Embassies in Africa, Europe and Australia. Short stories illuminate poor family background, great curiosity and wide reading, work in intelligence...

Nine Girls, No Boys is a collection of true stories of a family in rural Virginia—Daddy, Mama and nine children. All girls. No boys. For young Black parents trying to rear a large family in the 40s, 50s and 60s, there were tough times with years of struggle. Stories are funny, sad, depressing as...

A real account of Javier Soto’s journey of life in foster care. Javier was born in Spanish Harlem (1972) to a 16-year-old Puerto Rican mother and 24-year-old Black father during a period in America when this was considered taboo. Removed from his mother ‘s home along with his sisters due to a...

In early 1862 the American Civil War was a hit-or-miss affair of small forces clashing along lines of march to no real purpose other than someone thought it was a good idea. In the first week in April, 1862 three barely trained and poorly equipped armies, one under Ulysses S. Grant, one under...

A man hears his long dead father’s voice on the phone. A hunter returns home to find himself in an alternate universe. A husband loses his shadow and perhaps his soul, and an anthropologist encounters live elves. These are some of the episodes in the twenty stories found here with unexpected conclusions, leaving the reader startled, amused, or to ponder for a moment or two...

Whimsy can be defined as "playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor." Fun is "enjoyment, amusement, or lighthearted pleasure." Whimsy and fun are terms rarely associated with the legal profession. But El McMeen is not your typical lawyer; nor is Steve Baughman. Both...