The world is destroyed.For a thousand years, the Rehloy lived in isolation, developing a special relationship with nature. Theirs was a spiritual life, ethereal, in some ways divine. But change was in the air.Something was coming, something ominous.Loy and Beyond is the continuing story of a native people with extraordinary abilities, who face the invasion of a barbarous and technologically superior one.It is the coming-of-age story of a child whose...

The world is destroyed.Stripped of all modern technology, a small group of people survive and evolve. The Rehloy are born blind and don't gain sight until they reach puberty. Learning of the world first through their other senses, creates such a high level of awareness in them that they border on the mystical.For a thousand years they have lived in isolation, developing a special relationship with nature. Theirs is a "spiritual" life, ethereal, in some ways divine. But the ...

Norman D Gutter, now in his second year of his career as a civil engineer, seems to go from one difficult situation to another—except most of it is humorous. Norman tries to find the humor as the company he works with incompetent contractors, and deals with fun-loving, joke-making fellow employees. Splitting time between the office and construction sites, Norman never seems to catch a break as events spin around him.The company he works for, I.C.E. Engineering, is crazy busy, and t...

"Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"As president Lincoln told Congress his war aims at the start of the Civil War, this statement leaps off the lectern. What freedoms did the nation have? What rights did the states have? Did they have the right to leave the Union just because things didn't go the way they liked at the ballot box? This...

This book brings together narrative approaches and brain injury rehabilitation, in a manner that fosters an understanding of the natural fit between the two. We live our lives by narratives and stories, and brain injury can affect those narratives at many levels, with far-reaching effects. Understanding held narratives is as important as understanding the functional profile of the injury. This book explores ways to create a space for personal stories to emerge and change, whilst balancing ...

The Bible gives many examples of people who acted on faith and accomplished something great for God. This Bible study looks at some of those, as well as at people who, in the centuries since the Bible was written, have also been examples of what can be accomplished through faith. "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." Hebrews 11:6

The development of the U.S, Constitution, in response to the failing Articles of Confederation, happened in a few years following the Revolution. This book looks at a number of key documents from those years: analysis of the problem, pre-Convention debates, the Convention deliberations, post-Convention debates in the press and in State conventions, and the Bill of Rights. The discussions of those days are then tied to an issue we still deal with in the 21st Century.

After his mother died, with his dad still working nights, Danny Tompkins missed a lot of normal teenage activities. He survived those years, but decades later he realizes many of his adult habits of responsibility and difficulty having fun stemmed from those years. He relives it, and takes a small first step to overcome the baggage from his teenage circumstances. "Growing Up Too Fast" documents the teen years, and the adult Daniel's struggle to change from what those years had made him.

The six Danny Tompkins short stories explored teenage grief at the death of a parent. They are collected here in one volume. The stories follow 13-year-old Danny as he comes to grips with the death that changed his family. Decades later the adult Daniel re-lives many of the scenes from those few traumatic days, of the next school year, of how his surviving parent coped, of how Danny and his siblings coped, and how in his later years he found a release of his grief in writing poetry, as wel...

The book of the Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, has fascinated readers for two millennia—and confused them. Is it prophecy, or allegory? A man's creation, or the inspired word of God? What does it mean? And how did John write it? He was on Patmos "for the gospel." The church assumes he was in prison there. Was he, or was he there as an evangelist, to spread the gospel?"Preserve The Revelation" is a fictional account of how it might have happened. John is helped by A...

Denise Benfield is dealing with her mother's imminent death from cancer, when Mike Pelton shows up at the door, saying he was an old friend of her mother's, hasn't seen her in forty years, and wondered what has happened to her. She lets him in, and learns that it was more than just friendship all those decades before. Should she let him see her mother?"It Happened At The Burger Joint" tells of this encounter, as Denise tries to figure out what Mike's relationship was to her mother....

Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore PrizeIn 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to save the town of Cairo, Illinois, but in the process, it completely destroyed the small African American town of Pinhook, Missouri...