Alabama - 1863Sally couldn't remember the last time she had felt comfortable in her own skin.She knew it was a long time ago, but wasn't able to pinpoint any particular month or year. That's what life in the wasteland did to you, just used you up, mentally and physically, until there was nothing left but an empty shell of who you used to be, and nothing more.She bore the scars, too.What some folks would have referred to as a badge of courage to her was just ...

I think it's easy to say I have had a very interesting life, despite all of the adversity I had to face along the way.I have been a semi-successful author, an amateur detective, and a cancer survivor – twice.I have fallen in and out of love, and have become a better man for it.This story will be my last story, my magnum opus, so to speak, and maybe, just maybe, someday, after I'm dead and gone, someone might actually stay off of social med...

Once again, Indiana author David Boyer ventures back in time to the 1970s, for more tales of misspent youth, teenage angst and rebellion, and, of course, teenage love and loss, with the collection "High Octane: Tales Of A Misspent Youth."From the scene of a young boy riding his new bicycle into the wrong neighborhood, to find out some boundaries should never be crossed, to the county roads where two rebellious teens, who have run out of gas, find out almost too late that life is a ...

I had been outside working in my flower bed, the day it happened.The end of the world as we knew it back then.I had been planting some flower bulbs when suddenly, the blue sky above turned dark, with huge black clouds looming overhead, swirling around and then parting, revealing an almost blinding bright light, so blinding I had to cover my eyes.Then I heard the voice, it's tone thunderous and deafening.The voice said, I am the Lord, th...

Upon his release from prison for involuntary manslaughter, Billy Blackhawk came home to nothing but scorn and ridicule, being made to feel like a traitor to his community – and his heritage – for having killed a fellow Native American – even if it was in self defense.When he finds out his beloved wife, Wanda Lone Dove, was killed in a mysterious "accident," while he was incarcerated – and the local Sheriff has been doing his best to cover it up – Billy embarks on a personal quest t...

In COLLISION COURSE, author David Boyer takes the reader on yet another journey into a world where seemingly normal people are suddenly thrust into a collision course with fate – or destiny.In "Creepy Crawl," a master cat burglar finds himself stuck inside of a home with three members of the Charles Manson family – with no way out; in "Reflections," a career cop who has been forced to take another man's life in the line of duty, finds himself racked with guilt over whether or not i...

Radio personality Paul Harvey once said, "If you want to get away with murder, just go to Knox County, Indiana."Between the years 1974 and 2004, for almost three decades, his words, although not very flattering to our local authorities, rang true.Then, in the late 90s and early 2000s, through more advanced DNA technology, seasoned police and detectives's determination, and, in some cases, even willful confessions to the crime, our community had begun to see more positive re...

It's really ironic, isn't it, how we spend our youth tossing caution to the wind at every turn, believing we will live forever?I know I did.I think we all do, when we are growing up. I grew up in the baby boomer generation, for example, and the only cares we had was going to school, riding our bikes around the neighborhood until dark, going home to eat dinner at the family table, then TV and bedtime.Then, on weekends, we'd be up early, eating a bowl of cereal and wa...

Milo Polanski caused pain. This was his gift in life. He killed without remorse or regret.He has been called 'the most evil bastard alive,' as well as 'the devil himself in human form.' Anyone who knew him well – that he didn't kill – would have definitely agreed to the aforementioned descriptions of him.Milo had learned at an early age that love was malicious. Love was malice and malice love. He had learned this as a young boy, watching his father beat his younger brother ...

Teenage angst and rebellion, puppy love, and summer dreams I thought would never end. Little did I know that soon enough, life would catch up with me, and I would end up at the end of my journey trying to find what I'd lost along the way; myself.

Brian, Phil, Crissy and Sue have been best friends since grade school. But that's all about to change.Unfortunately for the close friends, local bully Darrel Godfrey was hell bent on making their lives a living hell, and he did one hell of a good job of it in the Summer of 1975. But not for much longer.Brian and Phil had a plan, a very embarrassing prank to play on Darrel, to end his reign of terror once and for all.After exacting their revenge on the local bully, t...

The town seemed to soften some at twilight. Not that Deadman's Gulch was ever 'soft,' but the dusk dimmed the harsher edges. Men weren't yet as full of cheap whiskey as they would be in a few hours.Not that it mattered to Sheriff Jake Collins.He wasn't concerned about the patrons of the Boarsnest Bar. He'd heard enough of the tall tales and bald faced lies the saddle bums tend to spout off when they were stone drunk and looking to make a reputation for themselves to last hi...