Marcus had adopted Thomas as a child, a little more than a newborn baby, a orphan from a good family belonging to one of the oldest and the best-established families in the country. He had adopted him during the boy's childhood and had ...
Sis stopped up and stood at the door and wished me Merry Christmas. She said Sam and the baby wished me Merry Christmas too. Sam couldn't make it this year, she said. Something about his business. Mom brought up some eggnog and a few ...
This is a collection of short stories I wrote after completing The Seed of the Guardians, my first novel.
Author Gillian Fletcher-Edwards grew up in a mining family of the fifties and sixties, from which many of her stories and life philosophies grew. Marged Evans is the story of two people who drifted apart.
The man looked up with a smile, and I could see he was not put out at all. Like he was glad to see them. ... The fella looked at Jenkins. “Who's gonna stop me. You?” Then he laughed like he heard something funny.
As he expressed it in the dramatic address which he delivered that morning to his compatriots over the national radio and television network, the Nation's Leader trusted that the funeral rites for Big Mama would set a new example for ...