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Tom Porter was a burned out young National Guard Warrant Officer when he moved to Tooterville in search of peace and quiet. He makes his living taking short tours of active duty for the Guard and is looking for a home and a job to provide income after he retires. He makes friends in the small town and finds the love of his life in the small house next door. His adventures and life in Tooterville make him realize he has found his home and a secure income stream for his retirement.

Bob was a soldier, a man who cared for his family, his fellow soldiers, friends and companions. He was also somewhat of an idealist and ethically above reproach. He believed in live and let live but was an implacable foe if you tried to force your belief or way of life onto him or others. Unknown to him, he was selected to be one of many World Walkers, some of whom spread throughout the history of the world. After his first transfer to another world, Bob discovers a startling fact. Not only is he a World Walker but he is a wizard. Native Americans revere him as the Great Shaman. This story ...

In book 5 of the popular Wizards series two new World Walkers appear. Elroy and his wife Dawna are trying to find their way in the strange world they find themselves in when they meet Warren the Wizard and, through him, more of the World Walkers. The old hands teach them wizardry and help them find a place in their new world. They overcome their sorrows and many obstacles before settling into a new home to begin their life as wizards, helping their new friends build a better world.

Earth is a disaster. Humans are trashing the environment. Global warming is rapidly approaching the tipping point. Shawn O’Malley is discharged from the Army and returns home only to find his neighborhood in dire straights. He struggles to decide what he wants to do with the rest of his life. His elderly neighbor asks him to help keep his home and land in shape while he goes to college. Soon, Shawn finds himself working more on restoring the natural wonders of the neighborhood than he does on his college courses. When the neighbor dies, he leaves his property, home, and contents to Shawn....

Ninety-three year old Garrett Belvedere, a retired aerospace engineer was wiling away the remainder of his life in an assisted living facility when he was offered the chance of a lifetime, a chance to return to work and be useful once again. With some trepidation he agreed to take the newly offered position, a position that could result in his death or a chance to live years longer. His job? Allow himself to be transported to a new colony world where, if he lived, he would be young again. After riots and world upheaval on Earth the colony was abandoned, left alone to survive or not on its ...

Martin Shackleford lost his wife in an accident and his farm in a lawsuit. A friend slaps some sense into him and he looks for work wherever he can find it. After taking a new job Marty discovered, after entering on duty, that it required a temporal and spatial relocation. Martin finds himself literally changing history while finding a new love and becoming successful once again. Marty and his fellow pioneers revitalize a stagnant society and bring prosperity to their new homeland while keeping the environment clean and life slower and simpler.

John Stennis made the best friend of his life while working to survive the affects of a financially crippling divorce. His friend and the love of a good woman helped him survive the breakup of his first marriage, near financial ruin and the destruction of his world. John and his family, along with other select individuals literally rise from the ashes of the destruction of Earth to achieve mankinds greatest dream. Thanks to their saviors incompetent fellow employees they gain the stars.

Three short poignant love stories written by a master storyteller about farmers who have not fared well in love. Surprisingly they find strong love and companionship where they least expect to do so—right on their farms. Each mans inherent kindness causes women they helped to love them unreservedly. These stories received very high ratings and much praise when first published online. In Wood Nymph, our heroine Sarah is mistreated by men for years beginning with her mother’s boyfriends, then men in foster homes and finally by older men she works for. She ran away from her live in ...

The first two short stories in this anthology are about people in the great Smokey Mountains. The author has outdone himself with these two short, thought provoking stories presented here for your enjoyment. Our third story has scenes in the Rocky Mountains and Ozarks. TEACHER Thomas (Tom) Eagle, Staff Sergeant (SSG) U.S. Army is propelled into a new experience after riding his horse into a strange, cold fog. On leave at home after a tour in Afghanistan he rides into the Smokey Mountains for a short camping trip to unwind from his deployment and never returns. Somehow, he is moved into the ...

In the long awaited book 6 of the popular series "The Wizards" Elroy and Dawna are flying down the river looking for a place to camp and unwind when they see a glistening object on the riverbank. Investigation shows it to be an aluminum canoe. Further investigation reveals Dawna's brother, long thought to be dead on Earth, living on the riverbank. After a joyful reunion they take him home and teach him the intricacies of being a wizard. He adapts and after conquering his teen age angst Doyle fits into the community where he finds love and his niche on this new world. He adapts Warren's ...

Young Garret Mans started his adult life as did many young men. He wasn’t sure what he really wanted to do with his life but he did know he didn’t want to work at something he didn’t enjoy. He became known as a Ne’er do well around town because of his proclivity to hunt, fish, and work just enough to have a minimum amount of spending money. His grandfather finally got through to him and he began, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, to settle down and find a career. He found he liked to be thought of as a ne’er do well or, in country speak, a good ole boy and encouraged those...

Heartbroken Peter Walker, saddened by his first love choosing another wizard (The Wizards, Book 10, Gaia's Disciples), discovers how to World Walk and ends up on a new world in British Colonial America. The new world is unlike the one he grew up on or the one Gaia brought him to. Landing in an uncharted wilderness, Pete begins a journey eastward, meeting and befriending many while searching for a permanent home. Wizards are considered by many religious sects to be disciples of the devil. Pete fights those believers and the Governor, finding true love and building a new country in the heart ...

In the near future terrorism and smuggling continue to increase. The U.S.Air Force is authorized to interdict and escort every incoming flight to a port of entry. If the planes do not follow instructions, they are authorized to shoot them down. One such interdiction mission results in the downing of a bona fide UFO. Almost overnight the United States and world obtain technology that allows them to expand to the stars. The search then begins for the home world of the aliens who sent the ship to Earth. Finally, years later, an intrepid team of young Space Force members crack the computers in ...

An eighty-year-old man returns to his childhood hometown for what he believes to be the final time. His trip down memory lane ends with a fall that is similar to one he took when he was four years old. Like before, he awakens in a hospital after the fall. Has he died? Is his life passing in front of his eyes while being judged? The hospital, people, and even his home and small body are just as he remembered them so many years before. Join Tim as he takes his second trip through life and breathes new life into a dead village.

The children and grandchildren of the World Walkers are bored. Like many young people, they do not like working in their parent's business and want to strike out on their own. Some of them, now young adults, decide to do something about their boredom and figure out how to explore outer space. Since their world is technologically deficient, they find ways to use their magical abilities in the exploration. This exploration results in the discovery of aliens and other humans living on a distant world. Ultimately, they do the same thing they rebelled against and enjoy the work, benefiting ...

Warren, an out of work computer nerd, was indulging in one of his favorite pastimes--attending a renaissance faire--when, on the spur of the moment (and in desperation), he answers an advertisement for a job as a wizard. Little did he know it was an actual job in an impossible field or that it came with a wife! Within minutes of taking the job he finds himself and his new wife transported to another world where he is thrown into the situation of being resident magician in his new city of residence. Over the course of years he grows into his job and makes his new home a better place. During ...

Three short stories about five young people find themselves moved from Earth to other worlds where, to their surprise they find magic exists and actually works! Much of what the locals call magic is actually what we of Earth call science but it works and allows these young people to live and prosper in their new home. In “Transplanted Wizard”s, our young gamers, nerds or geeks all, are driving home from a gaming session when, somehow, they are transferred to a world with two moons. Unable to return home, they discover the magic they ‘learned’ in their games allows them to work and ...

On a dark and lonesome night, a meteor that wasn't crashes to earth on a grieving man's land deep in the Arkansas mountains. Hunting the remains afterward, he finds more than expected and spends years investigating his find and changing the Earth. Along the way, his grief heals and he becomes revered to humanity, helping lift us from Earth to the stars. He finds love, knowledge and new friends along the way while building the empire of man in the heavens and on Earth.

Two men discover the treachery of their women and find themselves alone again after a traumatic experience. They are faced with public humiliation and overcome it with the help of other good women, women who they ultimately marry. Their Hispanic angels help them put their hurt aside, heal and succeed in life while beginning and raising a family.

Another tale of magic and intrigue from the Master storyteller James Maness. Obed, a young wizard, has achieved Master level and is sent out into the world to practice his magic. Inexperienced, he runs afoul of the rich merchants in his first hometown and, after a destructive fight decides to move on in hopes of finding a new more pleasant home. During his travels he encounters and fights dragons, brigands, greedy nobles and corruption. By chance, he encounters other wizards known as World Walkers who welcome him into their group. They fight corrupt merchants and greedy usurpers to the ...