The history of the bandana is a truly American story. While the bandana may have its beginnings long ago and far away, it is the All-American garment nevertheless. Don't believe it?Well, here's what you'll discover inside this book:How Martha Washington created the first American bandana used to help win the Revolutionary WarWhy bandanas were critical items for cowboys on trail drivesHow bandanas played a vital role in American politicsTh...

When first appearances turn out to be wrong . . .What happens when a far-flung mining expedition with an element of space exploration becomes a harrowing tale of survival and escape? Find out in the first brief novel in the series The Odyssey Affair, deftly blending science fiction, fantasy, and suspenseful thriller.Metallurgist and Mine Engineer, Second Class, Franklin Collier gets a lot more than he bargains for when he signs up for a surlenium mining job with Stellar Met...

A Cautionary Tale about the Near Dystopian FutureJust a few years down the road, the new health-care plan is firmly entrenched. A new bill, Ethical Assessment of End-of Life Care, has also been enacted into law. And the authorities are ruthlessly implementing it throughout the land – no more medical resources wasted on the defective and dying, equitable distribution of quality medical care, no more lingering half-lives sustained by expensive machinery. The "thanatos solution" has a...

"Two Stories: Supernatural and Psychological Mysteries" comprises (obviously) two stories (approximately 9,700 words) that have elements of the psychological/supernatural mystery/thriller with an admixture of horror."A Helping Hand" . . .When you're a fast-failing organic farmer in New Hampshire, with a known termagant for a wife, an event like this – digging up a human hand in your potato patch – can be devastating to your small profits when the news gets out, especially s...

What would you do if you discovered that your long-held dream was a cheat? If it turned out that the goal you had been pursuing almost all your life with everything you had was only a hollow deception after all?Michael Anders has to face this when he finally lays his hand on the brass ring.Like all of us, Michael Anders had a dream. Ever since he was a kid in junior rodeo, he dreamed of becoming a world-champion rodeo cowboy – riding bulls and bareback horses, scoring high,...

They give you just enough to keep you comfortable and quiet . . . if you're willing to put up with all the burdensome regulations and intrusions into your private life.And most people do. But is it worth it?At long last, William Oudeis didn't think so. But then it cost him everything.Or maybe he gained the only thing really worth having . . ."SlumberJoy, a global matress-manufacturing company, had its largest US plant in Doulosville, Oklahoma, where William ...

"After the Fog" – Four Tales of Horror and Supernatural SuspenseSanity means seeing what is real . . . what is there. But that's not always as easy as it sounds.Sometimes it takes a completely unexpected, violent, preternatural reversal to make us see beyond the fog. And that's exactly what you'll find in these four original, intriguing stories."A Helping Hand" – "It's not every day you find a human hand while digging potatoes. But that's exactly what happened to Le...

"It's not every day you find a human hand while digging potatoes. But that's exactly what happened to Leonard Johnson on a Saturday morning not long ago." That's how this quirky little story begins.When you're a fast-failing organic farmer in New Hampshire, with a known termagant for a wife, an event like this can be devastating to your small profits when the news gets out – especially since that ancient hand has peculiar "qualities."This discovery sets off a chain of inexo...

"Two Tales of Horror and the Paranormal" is a two-story bundle of approximately 9,600 words. In it you'll see that things aren't always as they seem – that there's a lot more to some humdrum, everyday lives than the people living them ever dared to imagine. And the implications are, well, sometimes frightening . . ."A Helping Hand""It's not every day you find a human hand while digging potatoes. But that's exactly what happened to Leonard Johnson on a Saturday morning not lo...

"Two Weird Tales of the Dystopian Present and Future" is a two-story bundle of approximately 6,600 words – two prescient short stories that treat of what is and what may be. Both scenarios will likely come to pass, and neither will be very pleasant. So be warned . . . be prepared . . . and watch."Eve's Refusal"Eve is a dirty, mentally challenged homeless woman who stands on a street corner in her rags and "prophesies." But she knows exactly what she possesses – what most of ...

A new bride and party girl who marries merely to escape her former life. A naïve, solicitous husband who sees no harm in an ordered life. A honeymoon hike on a mountain trail. And a tragic outcome.Murder, manslaughter, a misunderstanding gone horribly wrong, or sheer accident? Perception is everything, isn't it? In any case, justice has a strange way of working itself out."Over the Edge" is a short story – a psychological thriller and a tale of horror – of approximately 3,7...

Just a few years down the road, the new health-care plan is firmly entrenched. A new bill, Ethical Assessment of End-of Life Care, has also been enacted into law. And the authorities are ruthlessly implementing it throughout the land – no more medical resources wasted on the defective and dying, equitable distribution of quality medical care, no more lingering half-lives sustained by expensive machinery. The "thanatos solution" has arrived.But there are, as always, unexpected ramif...