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From the author of Slow Foreplay on a Fast Bus comes All the Heart's Fault. There is a knock on the door. It is the silence of the night. You come awake slowly. The knock won't go away. You realize it is time again. Death is at the door once more. Also by the same author, The Killing of Train-Man Brown and Send Me a Friend and many, many more short stories.

I was only 17 - a white kid green as they come - when I first met Walker Brown. Everybody called him "Train-Man Brown" or just "Train-Man". Not Trainman - that was too soft. The emphasis was on "Man". A black man, he had evidently kicked more than a few butts in his lifetime of working in the moving mail cars, and had earned quite of bit of respect along the way. It was assumed he was crazy - but I never believed it, not for a moment. And he was the only one who would help me, as I struggled to do my best on "The Gravy Train".

All older people want to do... is feel alive again. Sometimes, it takes an angel. Welcome to an eighteen year old one. A friend of mine.

Jezebel "Jessie" Bizzard has a big problem. Her father. She will be alone with him for three days. Will she survive?

Have you ever known someone briefly...then they were taken away suddenly? It's not like a family member. It's different. But still leaves you hurting.

"Darkness Comes" Jeddok finds these words written by his father on a map leading to the fabled land of Grhytnod. Haunted by his father's disappearance, Jeddok and his two best friends embark on a quest to find him. But they find more than they bargained for when they discover war is brewing against The Not, an evil entity which consumes living souls. When the peace pact between the Varruns and the Darkrruns - the soulless army of The Not - is broken, two exiled kings form their own pact.

Come along and catch a glimpse into a world you rarely see. Perhaps you've seen a hint of it out of the corner of your eye...but it's better to ignore it. Isn't it? In this instance, it all starts out under a Magnolia Tree...And ends where?

It is the first day of the Civil War...and Charlie Bateaux's got big, big plans for getting rich. But they don't go quite as Charlie had in mind. In fact...they go way wrong. From the author of "Mosquito Creek, 1865" and many other Civil War and non-Civil War Stories including "The Killing of Train-Man Brown," "Then Her Wig Fell Off," "Send Me a Friend, and "Slow Foreplay on a Fast Bust," comes "Charlie Bateaux, 1861."

There really was a New Hope Crash and at the end of this story I will tell you the best place to read about it. The New Hope Crash has been on my mind for many years. I could never shake it. Finally, I went to see the crash site myself, and returning home wrote this story. It will tell you how I first came to hear and know about the real New Hope Crash and how I combined fact and fiction to I hope bring the story of that fateful evening to more and more readers across the nation and the world than those who had previously known about it.

What do you do when you see children whose lives are so bad it breaks your heart? One woman took a risk. What she saw was none of her business. But to love...was her business. From the author of a Top-100 Free eBook for Kindle, "Killing of Train-Man Brown" and "The Christmas Mirror: Santa's Last Letter to a Wonderful Child" (number-one in two categories in both the US and UK).

Have you ever had something happen to you that defies all logic? That happened to the author and a friend, when they went to the sleepy little Southern town of Pulaski,Tennessee, to watch the Klan...And ended up...You will have to read it to believe it - or disbelieve it - yourself.

Many have believed that Atlantis was a fiction created by Plato. Well Plato was not the first to write about it. We have found a very much earlier document. It was written in 9619 BC, about 9,250 years before Plato's writing. This ancient document is believed to be the oldest document that has survived almost intact down through the ages. Further, archeological finds and scientific evidence provide convincing proof that Atlantis really did exist; Atlantis was real.

"Then Her Wig Fell Off" is a story that I heard and wrote about, in a hair salon - the same one that is pictured on the cover of the book. Inside you will meet the person I call "The Magician" who takes anyone who walks through the door, and not only makes their hair look better, but makes them FEEL better as well. Even if they are old...or have cancer. We're all human, both the beautiful and the not so; those in their prime and those dying. This is a story that lifts the human spirit.

Originally titled The Greatest Civil War Lie Ever Told, listen to this audiobook and decide for yourself whether it is fact or fiction. An alarming tale of deceit, danger and betrayal both during and after the Civil War: Is it fact or fiction? What appears at first to be one lie expands into a far reaching expose of conspiracy, deception, and threats on many levels. Written by Will Bevis as the first of at least four books on the subject it will grab your attention from the first page.

It's a typical Christmas Eve. All except for the hot weather. And the head.

The old woman living in the high rise for the elderly was the same as all those around her.... With one exception...

This short article that you are about to read has become, without my intending it to be, the most controversial thing I have ever written. It is about a bus trip I took to the Gulf of Mexico, sponsored by my kid's school - with about fifty pre-teens and first-year teenagers on board - as well as three or four parents and teachers... who all made the mistake of sitting in the front of the bus, where they were blind to what was going on behind them. I was the only one who sat in the back, and who had a clear view ahead of everything that was happening.....

When the lights go out and the city sleeps, a monster preys on the children of Henderson. The little girl next door to Debbie Swanson disappears from her bed, the next day the child's body is found in the river. Debbie may hold the key to what is happening in Henderson, but it is locked away in a childhood memory so terrifying that to remember could destroy her sanity.

The whole family was weird. But weirdest of all, was the little Yorkie. The one called "Big Tiny". His sister, Little Tiny, was normal. Meaning, that she was not a dog vampire. She was also a loyal sister. When Big Tiny found the hole in the floor of the closet and made his first of what was to become many escapes and blood runs, she didn't rat him out by barking. She was however, worried, not knowing if the blood dripping from his mouth when he returned was his or not.

It is the final days of the Civil War and a column of Union Cavalry has met stiff and unexpected and stiff resistance at Mosquito Creek, Virginia.... From one very strong young Southern woman. It is them against her. And they will lose.