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Essay Novel Excerpt

‘The View from the Shed’ excerpt, Ch 7 Good-Evil-Balance

February 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2688 Views 4 Comments balance, circumstance, excerpt, good-evil, importance, morality

CHAPTER SEVEN Good and Evil/Balance Some days I just cannot stop writing, it’s as if my soul is being driven,

Novel Excerpt

A View From the Shed’….excerpt Ch 25 Desire/Happiness

February 19, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1718 Views 2 Comments acceptance, desire, excerpt, happiness, knowledge, the now

I stare outside through my office window, unwilling to go to the shed, my once favorite place of thought and

Novel Excerpt

‘The View From The Shed’…novel excerpt. Ch26

February 15, 2017February 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1637 Views 2 Comments contentment, control, discipline/structure, excerpt, life, order

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Discipline/Structure Without discipline we are a mass of fractured thoughts and whims, searching in vein for resolution, but

Memoir Novel Excerpt

‘A View From The Shed’…an excerpt

February 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2390 Views 7 Comments excerpt, journey, life, perspective, psychological, spiritual

‘The View From The Shed’…an excerpt A Psychological and Spiritual Journey into Perspective …. Chapter Nine: Perspective/Introspection ‘In Acceptance… A

Memoir Novel Excerpt

Harold Be Thy Name…a novel excerpt

February 1, 2017April 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2693 Views 3 Comments kids, nature, Novel excerpt, sixties, wonder, youth

A flashback of Australian childhood, a personal account during Christmas holidays in the early sixties, and an excerpt from

Creative Writing Novel Excerpt Rhyming Verse

Growing Kings: A Brother’s Plea

January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 Paul Neglia 2144 Views 5 Comments brother, freedom, judge, knig, names, soldier, war

You think I do not want a simpleton’s way Father chose me to

Fiction Flash Fiction

The Shoes

January 20, 2017January 21, 2017 Will Starr 2310 Views 6 Comments flash fiction, shoe sale, shoes, street sale, Will Starr

Author’s note: The following was my response to a flash fiction challenge to compose a story about a picture of

Fiction Historical Fiction

Great Smoky Mountains Folk – Thomas Callahan

January 10, 2017September 14, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3053 Views 13 Comments Cherokee, forgiveness, granpa, mountain folk, Smoky Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains See Hell Bent For Leather for the first story about the Callahans. ~~ Thomas Callahan was true

Fiction Historical Fiction

Hell Bent for Leather

January 1, 2017September 14, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3324 Views 12 Comments cabin, family & love, front porch, granpa, hell bent, short story

Hell Bent for Leather “If that boy don’t smarten up quick he be hell bent for leather,” Thomas muttered.

Fiction Flash Fiction

Emerald Memories

December 30, 2016December 30, 2016 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2360 Views 6 Comments emerald, love, memories, new life, New Years Eve, relationship

Emerald Memories “Sarah, you are so stubborn!” Judy snatched up her jacket and left the house in frustration. They

Fiction Short Story

The Truck

December 25, 2016December 25, 2016 Ronnie Sowell 3367 Views 9 Comments Christmas, dad, father, memories, truck

The Truck “You better leave that old truck alone, you’re going to get hurt fooling with it.” Reggie Stamply

Christmas Fiction Flash Fiction

Grubby Bear Must Find a Home

December 7, 2016November 27, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3130 Views 10 Comments Christmas bear, flash fiction, grubby bear, Santa hat, teddy bear, toy store

Grubby Bear Jacob scratched his head as he stood in the back of the toy store wondering what to do

Flash Fiction

Partners in Crime

December 3, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2631 Views 8 Comments crime, flash fiction, friendship, hope, partners, stealing

Slight was she, in stature and countenance, a mere whimper of intent, and living in the shadows all she wanted.

Flash Fiction

When Fear is Justified

December 3, 2016December 3, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2073 Views 5 Comments break in, crime, fear, flash fiction, justified, saved

She never answered the door, each knock a rush of fear that took her breath away. Then, cowering in absolute

Fiction Flash Fiction

Ferry Boat to Friday Harbor

December 2, 2016December 3, 2016 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2624 Views 4 Comments deep water, fear, ferry boat, flash fiction, island, sinking

Ferry Boat to Friday Harbor Martie was terrified of deep water. After she boarded the ferry boat to Friday Harbor

Christmas Fiction Inspirational Fiction

A Christmas Mouse in a Festive House

December 1, 2016November 15, 2017 R J Schwartz 3355 Views 2 Comments Christmas, food, mouse, Santa

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. We

Fiction Halloween Short Story

A Lake Tahoe Haunting

November 23, 2016April 15, 2020 Jamie Lee Hamann 3610 Views 3 Comments ghost, gory, haunted, Lake Tahoe, scary

(Lake Tahoe Ghost Story) 1. Grandpa never talked much. Most of my memory was of me watching him

Fiction Flash Fiction

Blessed Forgiveness

November 17, 2016February 12, 2017 Will Starr 2480 Views 10 Comments cane, coffee shop, flash fiction, Will Starr, WWII

As soon as I saw it, it all came back and I was awash in shame. I grew up

Fiction Flash Fiction

Forgiving the Self…the only release

November 6, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2433 Views 4 Comments flash fiction, forgiving, prison, regret, release, self

Forgiving, a divine release… As if spoken in whisper, the words barely fell from her lips and ears pricked up

Fiction Short Story

Sally Little Britches…A Thanksgiving Story

November 4, 2016November 4, 2016 Will Starr 2679 Views 5 Comments homesteaders, Sally Little Britches, short story, Thanksgiving, Will Starr, Winchester rifle

Sally Little Britches When I found Pa dead, I reckon I forgot about a whole passel of things, and

Fiction Short Story

Wolfer Diggs…A Thanksgiving Story

November 4, 2016November 4, 2016 Will Starr 2535 Views 4 Comments barn, blizzard, fiction, missing girl, Will Starr, Wolfer Diggs

Wolfer Diggs “We didn’t find nothin’, Hiram.” Joe Grissom had been sheriff since territorial days, because he kept the peace

Fiction Short Story

Father Rivera

October 31, 2016October 31, 2016 Will Starr 2397 Views 6 Comments boots, cattle buyer, cowhand, fantasmas, fiction, Tucson

When Gibbs wasn’t talking, he was singing … They left me to die. I was on my way to Tucson

Fiction Short Story

Rose, A Roland Short Story

October 29, 2016January 3, 2017 Ronnie Sowell 3390 Views 13 Comments cowboys, gunslinger, indian, Marshal, short story, Texas Ranger

The creek was low, only two or three inches of water standing in some places. Her horse walked through the