"You're Not Gonna Believe This...."

Author: Charles E. Kaczorowski

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2017-06-12

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1532018568

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How would you like to join me on an unbelievable ride? Let us take a ride on a mystical wooden kiddie roller coaster as we travel thru my dash (you know, that line that separates, the date you were born and the date that says you, died) to, re-live my experiences, when I went knocking on Heavens door, starting at the early age of five years old, having to survive my first automobile accident. At sixteen, I drowned but was miraculously saved. Four years later I was in Vietnam, then had two major automobile accidents one before I was there in the WTC on the 93 bombing, then another before I was there on 9/11. After ten months at Ground Zero, I ended up with nineteen health ailments, one being bladder cancer. This will probably have you feel like youve been pushed back into that seat youre in and have you look to see if youre safely secured, as we go about feeling the remainder of those climbs, drops, curves and hoops with me. While were still on this journey, I will tell you about some of these most amazing surprising coincidences that had occurred to me (ones that I could never imagine, happening) and all because of this sudden change in me, that came about, hours later on September 11, 2001. Why, and more than, anything why me?

More Stories and More
More Stories and More

Author: Derryl G. Berry

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2023-01-13

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1977261272

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The variety of Derryl G. Berry’s imaginative short stories and intriguing essays make for delightful and entertaining reading in short spurts or extended time. Read a few short works while waiting for the bus, like “The Key to Her Heart” and “Wood Chucking” and “Pretty Like Mommy” or “Late for Lunch”. Or take more time for a longer work before bedtime, like “The Thanksgiving I Almost Exploded” or “You Don’t Know Fear” or “Chasing Shadows, Chasing Us” or “Saved by the Cell”. You might enjoy to matching opinions with Derryl and some of his essays. Try “The Blue Tree” or “How Did We Get to Be Different?” or “Consider the Kingfisher” or “Educate Against Crapspeak” or “Freedom to be Fools”. But beware, some might keep you awake thinking. Do you believe time travel is possible? Read Derryl’s opinion in “Time Travel Is Not Possible”. You could find that some of Derryl’s poems will pluck your own heartstrings. Maybe “She Passed by Him” or “Butterfly Madam” or “I Will Leave You in the Echoes” or “You Kept Me Awake Last Night” or “Today I Drank the Wine”. A few might just make you chuckle or say, “Hmm, well yeah, maybe.” One or two of Derryl’s Flash 55 Fiction might do the same.

Lyin' Like a Dog
Lyin' Like a Dog

Author: Richard Mason

Publisher: Richard H. Mason

Published: 2010-02-22

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1439271399

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Richard has adventures living on a small farm in Arkansas.

You Ain't Gonna Believe This But...
You Ain't Gonna Believe This But...

Author: Stanley S. McGowen

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1412037948

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This collection of short stories is intended to illustrate a more humorous glimpse of a soldier's life in Vietnam. It's of the times when boredom and a fertile imagination often lead to amusing situations, rather than the "blood and guts" of combat. All the narratives in this book, saves one, are true, or at least were presented to the author as fact. Some are without a doubt true, as they happened to the author. Other Vietnam veterans related the remainder of the yarns, swearing that each and every detail was unquestioningly genuine. We all know that combat veterans do not lie but their memories may, nevertheless recall their experiences slightly altered from actual events. Perusing these stories the reader might logically conclude that ego or passing years might, just possibly, influence a few of the bone-chilling tales. GI's live through numerous happenstances that are not heroic but are embarrassing or mundane. No matter how cynical a GI becomes, some events, maybe only in retrospect, are viewed as ironic or downright funny. These random experiences are what the book are about.

The Life Story Interview
The Life Story Interview

Author: Robert Atkinson

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 1998-01-06

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 150634965X

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First-person narratives are a fundamental tool of the qualitative researcher. One of the latest volumes in the Qualitative Research Methods series, The Life Story Interview provides specific suggestions and guidelines for preparing and executing a life story interview. Author Robert Atkinson, Director of the Center for the Study of Lives at the University of Southern Maine, places the life story interview into a wider research context before moving on to planning and conducting the interview. Atkinson carefully covers the classic functions of stories, the research uses of life stories, generating data from a life story, and the art and science of life story interviewing. He also thoroughly examines the potential benefits of sharing a life story, getting the information desired and questions to ask, and transcribing and interpreting the interview. To provide further support for the reader, the book concludes with a sample life story interview. As the use and study of narratives continues to grow in importance throughout the research enterprise, The Life Story Interview becomes an even-more valuable tool for qualitative researchers in all disciplines.

The Bizarre Ramblings of a Sane Madman
The Bizarre Ramblings of a Sane Madman

Author: Barry Goldstein

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2016-06-13

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1480830089

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The Bizarre Ramblings of a Sane Madman was written to stretch your mind and imagination and let you share in the thoughts that permeate my brain. hopefully it will make you laugh and stop to realize the multitude of absurdities we encounter on a daily basis. i hired an assistant to stand next to me while i wrote this book and slap me silly every time i started to rant ramble be random or get a little wacky. .. he quit after the first day lucky you or wait..maybe not.

Let's Play Ball
Let's Play Ball

Author: Linda Gould

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-02-24

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1450207618

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Miranda is a bright, attractive woman with an important government job, a nice home, and a prominent lawyer husband. Her fraternal twin sister, Jessica, is a sportswriter who has spent years sacrificing her social life and conventional career prospects to establish a magazine. Jessicas publication has finally caught on after she receives renown for an article she writes about local baseball star Manny Chavez and his perilous journey back to his native Cuba to retrieve his abducted son. Jessica, now engaged to Manny, invites Miranda, her husband, and their parents to join her in a luxury suite to watch the hometown Washington Filibusters take on their archrivals, the Florida Keys, in a championship game. As they are wined and dined by the team owner, Miranda envies her sisters seemingly perfect life and faces the reality that her own is a facade. But when the forces of revenge and corporate greed catch up to the perfect couple and blow their world apart, Miranda is suddenly thrust into a world of international politics. Lets Play Ball dramatizes the struggles of two ambitious sisters against the backdrops of immigration, global conflict, and the nations pastime.

Muscadine Vine and Clear Creek Water
Muscadine Vine and Clear Creek Water

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Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2002-01-14

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0595210732

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Muscadine Vine and Clear Creek water is just one of a collection of award winning short stories contained in this anthology by published authors recognized by their peers and selected for this work.The lead story is set during the depression of the 1930's and is an account of actual experiences by its author. It is a story that will be enjoyed by all ages. The older generation who lived in those times will identify with that era and today's youth will go away with a clear picture of life without televison, computers and all the other modern conveniences of today.The eighteen stories that comprise the this work will satisfy those who seek a variety of genre, including, romance, murder mystery. the supernatural and creative writing by accomplished authors.

Etta Mae's Worst Bad-Luck Day
Etta Mae's Worst Bad-Luck Day

Author: Ann B. Ross

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0143127373

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A delightful standalone novel as told by the sassiest character in the beloved New York Times bestselling Miss Julia series. Don't miss Ann Ross's newest, Miss Julia Raises the Roof, coming April 2018 from Viking. Heart-of-gold, hardscrabble Etta Mae Wiggins has bewitched Miss Julia fans as the steel magnolia’s sidekick in several New York Times–bestselling novels. At last, Etta Mae gets to speak for herself, and longtime readers and newcomers alike will love her story and her opinions of Miss Julia. Growing up, Etta Mae couldn’t escape her daddy’s no-good name—or the attention of every roving eye in town. But when she becomes the home nurse for an elderly man who is Abbottsville’s wealthiest resident, she sees an opportunity to say sayonara to her trailer-park days once and for all. However, a number of interested parties are less than thrilled by the thought of wedding bells, and she’ll have to work fast to marry Mr. Right on the worst bad-luck day of her life.

Messiah on the Frigidaire
Messiah on the Frigidaire

Author: John Culbertson

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 0573660379

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"The small town of Elroy, South Carolina is thrust into the evangelical spotlight when what seems to be the image of Jesus appears on a refrigerator in a trailer park. The discovery by Lou Ann Hightower, her husband Dwayne, and her best friend Betsy, sets into motion a frenzy of conflict, communion and good old fashioned commerce. When the National Investigator turns the appearance into front-page headlines, their trailer park becomes a Mecca for miracle seekers, soul searchers and disciples with a decidedly political agenda. At the urging of the towns business leaders, Betsy pretends to get messages from the appliance-based apparition, and the crowds multiply like loaves and fishes. Through the ordeal, the three undergo an evolution in their relationships with each other, and they are forced to come to grips with their lowly status in the caste system of the rural south. In a region where religion is as much a part of life as grits and cotton fields, God surely moves in mysterious ways."--Publisher's website.