Indian Short Stories

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! From a post-Civil War soldier who's sick from the dreadfulness and injustice of battle and longs for a life where he can regain his self-respect to a slip of a woman with flashing blue eyes and an Irish brogue who's on the track of the men who took her family, this collection of monthly winners from the eZine Frontier Tales whisks you back in time to when life and death were close neighbors and a person's word was a bond. These Tales honor the Old West and the men and women whose strength and spirit made the United States the unique ...

Priscilla putters along in her usual life of bridge and gossip and coffee shops and shopping at the local markets in the small Indian town where she lives, until one morning, the mysterious man known only as the Pharsee gives her a box. The thing is filthy, twitchy and just plain wrong...but no matter what Priscilla tries, or how many cleaning boys she fires, she simply cannot get rid of it.

Cold and storms plague a lone ship crossing the Indian Ocean. The Avarta’s crew whisper of ill omens, their eyes on a new cabin boy nicknamed Bilge. Could the orphan foundling be a harbinger of bad luck? Fog stalks the ship. An unnatural mist clings to their keel. The sailors whisper of pirates, haunted derelicts, and monsters. Their warnings, echo in Bilge’s nightmares. A bump in the night. Scraping against the hull. Are the monsters real? Is it all real or hazing and imagination? Surviving the truth might mean facing more than the storm.

Childhood innocence is shattered for 12-year-old Rosalie Weston when she witnesses a frightening incident at her favorite outlook in the lush Appalachian forest around the home where she lives with her mother, grandmother and aunt. Past and present intertwine when Rosalie and her friend, Willis, uncover family secrets that will forever impact the course of their young lives.

Harvey is visited by a Caucasian man looking for spiritual healing, but Harvey isn't the type of Indian who would believe in spirits.

Dorothy, a First Nations Elder on a remote reserve buys a military grade tank off the Internet; which starts the rumor mill as people try to figure out why she has one.

Jewish identity. Perhaps, no other socio-psychological phenomena has gone through so many shifts, tribulations, elation, and changes. Jewish identity and experiences have been a source of much intellectual interest and discussion for philosophers and literary geniuses in the history of humanity, such as Hillel, St. Paul, Ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Calvin, Mann, Levinas, Herzl, etc. In this fine tradition and in the class of such geniuses, H. C. Kim has produced a volume of literature that will certainly rank among the most elite in the genre.

I am Indian. He is African. I know nothing of him, yet he’s my husband. I don’t know what his interests are. I don’t know the sound of his voice. I don’t even know what he looks like. I am worried about this marriage. Will he love me? Will I love him? Most importantly I wonder if the rumors are true about African men. If he is big…and can I handle that much man? My Arranged Marriage is a short erotic interracial romance. It is for mature readers only.