The Henderson Writers Group challenges its members each year to submit works for blind judgement. Those with top scores are presented here.Enjoy this multitude of works written by Beverly J. Davis, Brandi Hoffman, Pat Kranish, David R. Long, Keiko Moriyama, Rick Newberry, Chike Nzerue, Wolf O'Rourc, Lori Piotrowski, Donna Pletzer-DeVargas, Joe Van Rhyn, Valerie J. Runyan, Laura Engel Sahr, Judy Salz, Willow Seymour, Arleen Sirois, Nancy Sanders Tar...

"The System: Book 1" by Bryant Thomas Coates is an exciting thriller about young men living in a tough neighborhood, dealing with crime, loyalty, and survival. The story follows Bee, a teenager stuck between ambition, family, and trying to survive. He and his friends are learning that in their world, respect and power are earned the hard way. Bee has to make life-changing decisions that will affect his future.The novel explores family struggles, the cost of power, and how a life of...

A closely held firm is not a smaller version of a large public firm, anymore than a child is a miniature adult. Recognizing that value comes from the ability to generate future cash flows, this book emphasizes the differences between the large and small firms when presenting the concepts to value the closely held firm.

Outlaw Sammy Page made a solemn promise to his wife and daughter to change his ways after a jury found him innocent of double homicide having been at the scene while a husband-and-wife were being brutally murdered."What Has Happened to Women in Juárez?" The newspaper headline jumped off the page as Sammy paced the jail cell following his arrest on suspicion of foul play after his wife and daughter went missing in the West Texas border town of El Paso.Hell's Bells contains e...

The Mighty Crusaders return in an all new lost tale, featuring a stellar cast of talent. With the New Crusaders facing an uncertain future and the truth about their parents slowly being revealed, one man searches for answers. But will the answers he finds be worth reliving the pain of his own past?

Sammy Page, a long time thief, stares into the institutional glow of death row when he takes a couple's prize possession, while they lay in their bloody bed after having been brutally murdered.Long Gone is a fast-paced thrilling tale of love, romance, corruption and murder as seen through the eyes of Sammy Page, who was turned out to make fast money by a desperate mother at the age of 10 years old, So, Sammy's childhood playground of stolen cars and hot rides takes the place of swi...

Outlaw Sammy Page has no recollection of his life before waking in The Buckskin Canyon nudist camp, being nursed back to health by the voluptuously sexy camp founder, Dr. Alexandria Rose, after she found him unconscious on the property. He's unaware that he has a wife and daughter waiting at home. He doesn't know that authorities discovered a man and wife brutally murdered in a house with a lonely light burning after he drove off with their luxury liner. He doesn't yet know that there's be...

On April 26, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege paused in Union Square, New York, before being taken by rail to Springfield, Illinois, William Cullen Bryant listened as his own verse elegy for the slain president was read to a great concourse of mourners by the Reverend Samuel Osgood. Only five years earlier and a few blocks downtown, at Cooper Union, Bryant had introduced the prairie candidate to his first eastern audience. There his masterful appeal to the conscience of the natio...

The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William Leggett's mismanagement. At the period's close, Bryant has found in John Bigelow an able editorial associate and astute partner, with whose help he has brought the paper close to its greatest financial prosperity and to national political and cu...

In January 1872, Bryant traveled to Mexico City, where he was greeted warmly by President Benito Juarez; on this and other occasions he was feted for the Evening Post's sturdy condemnation in 1863 of the abortive invasion of Mexico, which was freshly remembered there. AT the close of his visit a local newspaper remarked that the "honors and hospitality which were so lavishly and generously conferred upon him were the spontaneous outpouring of a grateful people, who had not forgott...

The years just before and during the Civil War marked the high point of Bryant's influence on public affairs, which had grown steadily since the Evening Post had upheld the democratic Jacksonian revolution of the 1830s. A founder of the Free Soil Party in 1848 and the Republican Party in 1856, Bryant was lauded in 1857 by Virginia anti-slavery leader John Curtis Underwood, who wrote to Eli Thayer, "What a glory it would be to our country if it could elect this man to the Presidenc...

This is the only collection ever made of Bryant's letters, two-thirds of which have never before been printed. Their publication was foreseen by the late Allan Nevin as "one of the most important and stimulating enterprises contributory to the enrichment of the nation's cultural and political life that is now within range of individual and group effort.William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was America's earliest national poet. His immediate followers—Longfellow, Poe, and Whitman—unques...