Paul David: 31 books

In 1952 on a Kentucky mountain, Jimmy and Curly are trapped by history and poverty. There are no roads. You walk or ride a mule or a horse, if you have one. What happens one summer, when the best friend and buddy you ever had in your whole life turns out to be a girl instead of a boy like you? You...

This is A Modern Christmas Fable about an Angel whose wings are so full of dew that she cannot fly and falls into a tulip bloom in the Land of Imps and Elves and how she helps the Imps and Elves learn how to celebrate Christmas.

The following stories tell of various individuals who perished through unusual, though often far-fetched, circumstances. Several of the incidents were caused by sheer bad luck - the wrong place at the wrong time -, while others were caused by their own stupidity and carelessness. Either way, these stories reveal just how downright diabolical death can truly be.

Dear Reader, Faith Naber, our mother and grandmother, wanted to share with us what it was like to grow up in Mount Greenwood during the great depression. Mount Greenwood is a neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois. She started her book at the beginning of her first memory of...

First Eighty-five Poems is a book of poetry written between January 1, 1959 and August 1, 1963 while the author was in junior high and high school. He shares what he was feeling and thinking when he wrote some of his poems. It is an autobiography in poetry. The author often considered taking his own...

What happens one summer, when the best friend and buddy you ever had in your whole life turns out to be a girl instead of a boy like you and she is trapped in a family with an abusive father? You find a way to get her off of the mountain and into the city. And you make her your college roommate. You...

This novel is about a young family on their way to their new home in Colorado from Ohio. They were wealthy, but they sold everything in Ohio to go to a new home that only Roger C. Andrews has seen. (the C is for Charles) Roger bought a canyon from Barnaby Collins because he loved it so much. He was...

Hallie gave birth to Jeanne who was a clone. Jeanne’s father died in a starship disaster two hundred and eighty years ago. Jeanne’s mother died four hundred years ago back on Earth. Jeanne was born with a constant psychic connection with two boys she does not know. Jeanne could not stand to be...

Katya is one of 24 women and 8 men who are to provide shore-leave for the staff and crew of the SOLAR WIND on a 20-year voyage to the asteroids. Katya is a certified sex therapist and surrogate spouse and a Clinical Psychologist from Sweden. Sex therapists are part of the Psychology staff on the voyage....

Shorty Martin found an alien machine on his Iowa farm by accident. He excavated it and discovered that it powered up at noon. He walked up the transparent corridor and stepped out on the sphere and disappeared from Earth. He was transported to another planet. An old witch woman named Bitina tries...

The Qarka have been secretly visiting Earth for thousands of years. Two thousand years ago they brought goats home to Qarka because they liked goat’s milk and goat cheese. The Centauri Empire conquered Qarka a thousand years ago. Over the last few hundred years, the Centauri have taken Qarka Girls...

In September, 1879, five-year-old Jamie wakes up from her nap and sees her eleven-year-old friend Laura stripped naked and staked out on a hill. She sees her father tortured and gutted and her mother gang-raped. She jumps out of back of the covered wagon and hides in the roots of a huge cottonwood...

Light And Tender Blue and Other Stories from the Sixties is a collection of fourteen short stories or novelettes written between 1960 and 1964. One or more can be labeled Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Race Relations, or Satire. They were written while the author was in high school and...

Two hundred and seven years ago a starship is pulled apart by a gravitational vortex. Three segments out of fourteen crash-land with survivors in three different places on Big Blue, an earthlike planet. Now two boys and a girl discover that they have been telepathically connected since before they...