Kahsa hates dictators, especially the one he had sworn his life to. Forcefully brought up as a solider and reduced to a mere guardsman, Kahsa wants nothing more than to leave his old life behind and find freedom far from the endless gaze of his ruthless master, Agar.Deciding to run, Kahsa finds himself in the Glorybud Forest at the center of a prophecy given by a God he does not know. Will this God-laddash-be Kahsa's ticket to freedom, or just another master to rule his life? The o...

After a sudden defeat, Kahsa is left wounded and questioning his role as The Knight of Iaddash. Wishing to reclaim The Sword, he seeks the favor of his God, hoping to be healed.Meanwhile, Agar tightens his grip on Gezentine as various nations gather to oppose him and his newfound army of Shadows. To be victorious, they must put their hope in Kahsa, and the Sword which lays deep within the Gates of Sheol.

"Slips of Speech" by John Hendricks Bechtel is an insightful guide that addresses common errors in everyday communication. This book serves as a valuable resource for anyone looking to enhance their speaking skills and avoid the pitfalls of miscommunication. Bechtel meticulously outlines various linguistic slip-ups, providing readers with practical examples and corrections. The engaging style makes it accessible to a wide audience, from students to professionals, ensuring that everyone can...

As we walk through dark times in our lives, we all need a way of finding truth in the tempest. Whether we are asking "Why the Tempest?" or struggling when life doesn't make sense, God's Word is sufficient to answer all of our questions.Faythelma Bechtel knows the tempest, but she also knows the One Who calms the storm. After losing two daughters and her husband, Faythelma has clung tighter to her Savior and longs to help others who are struggling to find peace in their own storms.

A collection of short stories, essays, art and interviews in celebration of Candas Jane Dorsey.Contains work by Timothy J. Anderson, Greg Bechtel, Eileen Bell, Gregg Chamberlain, Alexandrea Flynn and Annalise Glinker, Barb Galler-Smith, Anita Jenkins, Laina Kelly, Derryl Murphy, John Park, Rhonda Parrish, Ursula Pflug, Robert Runté, Diane L. Walton, BD Wilson and S.G. Wong.

Structured on the Beatitudes, The Gift of Ethics is a short, readable introduction to the major ideas in Christian ethics. Bechtel engages the reader through stories to draw out reflection on the good life.

A helpful book for everyone who aspires to correct the everyday errors of speaking and writing.

Where do you go when your heart is breaking, when your life is crushed with loses that can never be replaced here on earth? Where do you go to find comfort and strength to make it through the lonely days and wearisome nights? Where do you find light to guide you through the dark valley of the shadow of death? God and His Word supply the comfort, strength, courage, and light to keep on living when life makes no sense. This book is for those who have lost or for those who desire to relate to...

A great collection of short speculative fiction.Twenty-three authors selected by co-editors Rhonda Parrish and Greg BechtelNevertheless (Tesseracts Twenty-one) is a collection of optimistic speculative fiction stories, each optimistic in a slightly different way. These stories explore the optimism that drives us to seek out new worlds, that inspires us to sacrifice for others or fuels us to just keep going when everything seems lost and in ...

That Dazzling Sun, Book 2 in The Tinsmith's Apprentice trilogy, continues the vivid coming-of-age story of Isaac Granger, slave to Thomas Jefferson, begun in Bechtel's marvelously adept debut novel, "A Partial Sun" in which Isaac begins his complicated apprenticeship at age fifteen as a tinsmith in Philadelphia in the fall of 1790.In this second book, Rachel Bringhouse, the tinsmith's daughter and Isaac's tutur, sails off to Englad to work alongside the fa...

Looking for a spark that will set your fingers afire?Need a tasty prompt to bribe stubborn Plot Bunnies back out of hibernation?Fed up with it all and just want to browse through hundreds of stories that don't exist yet?Then pull up a laptop (or a cellphone) and get ready to read!This ebook contains 265 prose prompts, which are small snippets of story ranging from a single short sentence to lo...

Dusk, some believe, is a time when two worlds meet and are divided by the thinnest of veils. It is a time when that which is not meant to be seen can be. The walls are down, and the windows are open.If one finds themself alone in the woods at dusk, when the fog rolls across the ground and your sense of direction is lost, beware. There are those who say something may find you.You may come across a staircase. It may be of rusted iron, or collapsing, weathered wood. It is a sp...