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Tales from the Texas Timberlands:
Texas Porch Short Stories
Volume 2
During the day when there is a break in the day's labor or in the evenings when the sunlight is waning, stories are told from Texas porches. Although these are usually short stories, they can be long, and thus continued at the next porch sitting. They contain humor, sadness, suspense, mystery, philosophy, and instruction about the human condition and, in general, the journey of living. The storytellers find the rhythm of life for themselves, and the listeners hear valuable lessons and truth.
Tales from the Texas Timberlands, Volume 1 celebrates this storytelling about East Texans with five unique and descriptive short stories. Tales from the Texas Timberlands, Volume 2, continues the celebration of this storytelling about East Texas with five more unique and descriptive short stories. They are tales to soak up and remember.
Tales from the Texas Timberlands:
Texas Porch Short Stories
Volume 1
During the day when there is a break in the day’s labor or in the evenings when the sunlight is waning, stories are told from Texas porches.
Although these are usually short stories, they can belong, and thus continued at the next porch sitting. They contain humor, sadness, suspense, mystery, philosophy, and instruction about the human condition and, in general, the journey of living. The storytellers find the rhythm of life for themselves, and the listeners hear valuable lessons and truth. Tales from the Texas Timberlands, Volume 1 celebrates this storytelling about East Texans with five unique and descriptive short stories. They are tales to soak up and remember.
What is Unseen
Kyle Luman is on the abyss of deep despair. After the loss of his wife, he sees no point to his life other than being the obligatory father to his two children. Living with his family in Connecticut had been his life. Without her, he has no hope. His mother invites him and the children to live with her in Three Oaks, Texas, his hometown.
In Three Oaks, he finds renewed friendships, spiritual awakening and love, But he, his friends and his newfound love are also battered by the unseen evils of self-centeredness, envy, jealousy, greed, racism, power-grabbing and political corruption. Kyle discovers an unseen hope and with his friends leads the battle to overcome the evil pervading their community.
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Seeds of Bliss
Seeds of Bliss is about the East Texas town of Lyric, its triumphs and its struggles, and the people who are an integral part of it. The novel focuses on a hometown man, Scott Mitchum, and his daily goal to live out his faith in God, how he translates it into practical actions which he inoculates into his relationships and his will to survive and thrive. The story includes other characters who are positively influenced by Scott, and those who wish him harm primarily because they don’t like him. The setting and plot are filled with the environment, the culture, the humor, and the danger of East Texas.
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