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"Much Madness is divinest Sense . . ." The year is 1864. Victor von Hielzen visits his wife in an asylum. In his pocket, Victor carries a mysterious vial whose contents will end his wife's suffering. Using it, Victor embarks on a terrifying journey, the conclusion of which may hold...

Chuck Cave knows the value of an oath. When he promised to look after his war buddy's children, the words become a solemn bond.   Now, that pal's daughter Selma is all grown up, leaving the heartland to go to school in Los Angeles. Things seemed to be fine, until Selma's mom reveals...

This is the story of a man sharing an adventure he and his brother had while hunting deer. The pair chose to hunt while major snow and ice storms are passing through the area. The trip was made worthwhile by the discovery one brother makes while out in the woods.

This is an excerpt of the first chapter from my previously published story called "Shawnee: The Adventure Continues". This chapter stands on its own as a short story involving a Georgia plantation owner back in the early 1800's who just happened to be a Cherokee Chief. He and his family discover...

Bite of the Grizzly is a short story written of fiction horror. It is about two friends who make plans to go to Montana on their first Elk hunt. Before they left Paul makes a marriage proposal to his life long friend Carrie and they confirm their feelings for each other with a first time of making...

In this short story the kids come to Grandpa and ask him if he had ever shot anyone. He not only says yes but shares the story of what happened to him and also shares the details of another accidental hunting accident.

This short story is actually an excerpt of the first two chapters out of my third book called "A Cherokee Wish." It takes place in the Shawnee Hills of southern Illinois in 1817 - 1818. It is the story of a white man who falls in love with a young Cherokee woman he saved from the harsh winter weather....

The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Huang shows how, at the level of ideology and theory, traditional Chinese law has been rejected...

One of the few people of his time who actually made a living from bees, C. C. Miller made beekeeping his sole business, beginning as a hobby in 1861 and continuing until his death in 1920, following a long and distinguished career that produced many articles and books on the subject. This volume,...

This is the first book-length study to read the "Ancient Mariner" as "poetry," in Coleridge's own particular sense of the word. Coleridge's complicated relationship with the "Mariner" as an experimental poem lies in its origin as a joint project with Wordsworth. J. C....

Learn effective animal handling and restraint techniques! Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals, 2nd Edition describes each procedure with two to eight photos showing the exact steps needed to achieve safe restraint. A chapter is devoted to each domestic animal species, including cats, dogs,...

Two teenage boys go to there church's picnic but decided shortly into the picnic to go explore the woods surrounding it. Being a National Forest they went on for miles and miles. The boys have quite an adventure throughout the day but end up getting lost. Read along and see if they make it back out and what they find along the way.

This is a horror fiction story written about two teenage boys in southern Illinois who attempt to take on the challenge of staying in a haunted house. Now this is no ordinary haunted house mind you. It is the Old Slave House where John Crenshaw dealt in the slave trade. He held them in cells on the...

Treasure in the Shawnee Hills opens in pre-Civil War Southern Illinois as five riders on horseback come into an Ohio River port to take a gold cache out of the local bank. The five make it out of town with the gold, but the posse is right behind them. Are they able to elude the posse or are they caught...