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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

The drifter killed, but not for pleasure nor profit. He killed to exact revenge for the innocent, avenge their untimely deaths in the name of God.Did this make him any better than the blue coats? After all, killing is still killing, regardless of the reasoning behind it all.The drifter wasn't that worried about it all. He'd already made his peace with the Lord, for what it was worth in the end.For now, he had a job to do, and God help any blue coats that got in his ...

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...

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.

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...

On the outskirts of the town of Red River, they waited.They waited patiently.They never got in a hurry; if they were caught committing such a nefarious act, they would surely be put in prison for the rest of their natural lives, for committing such an unnatural act against humanity.So, they waited – patiently.Their patience paid off.Before long, right before midnight, she came strolling down the dirt road toward town. A young thing; so petite and pre...

I'll never forget the first time I killed a man.Wait...I'm getting way ahead of myself calling it a killing. Yes, I did kill him, but you couldn't really classify it as a murder. I shot him in order to save an innocent person's life, in the line of duty.I used to be a cop.Well, I'm still a cop, but I guess I just don't feel like one. A righteous cop, anyway.I almost lost everything.It was a justified shooting – a young man by the name of Tommy Ray Wa...

In September of 1974, a local Vincennes woman, Dolores Oliver, seemed to vanish from a local tavern without a trace.Weeks later, her body was found in a corn field in Illinois. For the next 47 years, the case went unsolved. Fifty years later, in 2024, due to a local resident reading my first book on the case, and coming forward with some valuable information, the case has been solved; her own grandfather, who was a rapist and pedophile, had admitted to the murder in a death bed con...