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Light And Tender Blue and Other Stories from the Sixties is a collection of fourteen short stories or novelettes written between 1960 and 1964. One or more can be labeled Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Race Relations, or Satire. They were written while the author was in high school and college in the sixties. They have never been published before. They are in the order for the best read. However, you can red them in any order that you choose. I hope you will enjoy reading them.

Odds and Ends: Stories and Essays from the Sixties is a collection of thirty essays or stories written between 1959 and 1969. One or more could be labeled: Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, or Satire. They were written while the author was in high school, college and seminary in the sixties. They have never been published before. They are in the order for the best read. However, you can read them in any order that you choose. I hope you enjoy reading them.

In July 1910 Summer is home from college. Her favorite thing is to ride her horse up into Eagle Mountain and swim in a secluded pool. She is caught alone. After keeping her captive for hours, her assailant releases her hands and rides up the mountain and disappears. It is too dangerous for Summer to go up or down the mountain in the dark. She camps out overnight. Her father and his crew find her early the next morning. They track the man down. They corner him in the saloon and the Sheriff kills him. But was it the right man? Her doctor tells her she is not pregnant and to go back to college. At her Homecoming Dance in October, she falls in love with Mark, a football player from Wyoming. She invites Mark to her October Fest party at her residence that next weekend. He promises to come even though he has a football game in Nebraska that day. But before they can see each other again, she is kicked out of her residence and forced to go home due to her condition. The doctor promises to take her baby to a foundling home in Chicago. But at the last minute, Summer decides to keep her baby girl, even though it will ruin her life forever. In the meantime, Mark cannot get Summer out of his mind. But he is on a scholarship and cannot look for her until he graduates. When he finds her, he is given the choice, take the job as housekeeper or leave. What young man raised on a ranch in 1912 would take a job as a housekeeper? How does Summer find true love and get revenge? Read and find out.

Katya is one of 24 women and 8 men who are to provide shore-leave for the staff and crew of the SOLAR WIND on a 20-year voyage to the asteroids. Katya is a certified sex therapist and surrogate spouse and a Clinical Psychologistfrom Sweden. Sex therapists are part of the Psychology staff on the voyage. They are responsible for research into the affects of long term space flight on the staff and crew as well as their well being as a community. Nippon-American built the Orbital Complex or OC(oh see) at L5 and the SOLAR WIND (spacecraft). The company pays most of the crew and some of the staff. The majority of the staff is paid by the UN. The UN wants Nippon-American Corp. to tag asteroids for future use. The company wants to orbit asteroids behind the moon at L2 for the lunar colony and Orbital Complex or OC (oh see) at L5. Katya falls in love with Alex, the Czech in charge of the Nuclear Physics staff for the UN and the engineering crew for the company. Alex has an affair with Iliss, a married woman going on the voyage with her husband. Later, Katya falls in love with Iliss. Falling in love complicates Katya's life and job. How do you hide affairs from 320 people on a spacecraft the size of a city block?

In September, 1879, five-year-old Jamie wakes up from her nap and sees her eleven-year-old friend Laura stripped naked and staked out on a hill. She sees her father tortured and gutted and her mother gang-raped. She jumps out of back of the covered wagon and hides in the roots of a huge cottonwood blown over by a storm. Jess finds one burned wagon and evidence that seven other wagons were stolen. There are thirteen bodies that were scalped and murdered by renegade whites hoping to blame the Indians. Jess finds Jamie and sits down nearby and sings nursery rhymes until Jamie comes out of her hiding place and curls up in his lap. Jamie says, "e;Daddy, I thought you were dead."e; This is the story of how Jess, Jamie, and Kristin become a family after enduring trials and tribulations.

Fifth Volume of Poetry: Falling in Love is my fifth volume of poetry. These poems were written between July 1977 and October 1981. They were written for and about two different women.One woman dumped me after I fell in love with her in 1977. Even though we never had sex, it took three years for me to get over her.The second woman became my best friend and then my mistress in 1978. After she moved away in 1979, we kept in touch by letter and telephone. I missed her so much that within a year, I was ready to move in with her and be a family with her and her child and my son. It never happened.I hope you will enjoy reading and learning from my life experience. I try to give you a hint of all the feelings I had as I wrote the poems. Every one of us has to struggle to be good and kind and loving.I have loved many girls and women in my life. And a part of me still loves them all. I wish you a lifetime of loving and caring for others and being loved and cared for.

Second Hundred and Sixty-three Poems is a book of poetry written between August 1963 and March 1967 while the author was in college. He shares what he was feeling and thinking when he wrote some of his poems. It is an autobiography in poetry. The author often considered taking his own life, but decided not to do that. The author questioned his Evangelical Protestant upbringing and later chose to be a Christian through his philosophy of life and not through the church. He served as a pastor for a number of years. The poems are presented in the order in which he wrote them and they share the feelings and questions he had during that time in his life. Readers may find his poems and comments helpful as they struggle with their own feelings about the world, their family and friends and their purpose in life.

Third volume of poetry includes poems written between 1967 and 1981. They describe the author's feelings and observations as he struggled to be faithful to his calling, his marriage, and himself. His faith in God sustained him throughout.

Fourth volume of poetry includes poems and letters written between 1981 and 2002. They describe the author's feelings and observations as he gets a divorce after leaving the church and work his way through five lovers until he meets his soul mate. His faith in God sustained him throughout. The words to most of the songs he has written are included.

The Qarka have been secretly visiting Earth for thousands of years. Two thousand years ago they brought goats home to Qarka because they liked goat's milk and goat cheese. The Centauri Empire conquered Qarka a thousand years ago. Over the last few hundred years, the Centauri have taken Qarka Girls as sex slaves. Now they are secretly taking Earth Girls as sex slaves while looking for a criminal who escaped to Earth. Arri Tolin is a Qarka Girl who was stranded on Earth 24 years ago. She had a mixed-blood baby she left behind. Now her daughter and the Centauri criminal hope to stop the Centauri sex trade forever.

What happens one summer, when the best friend and buddy you ever had in your whole life turns out to be a girl instead of a boy like you and she is trapped in a family with an abusive father? You find a way to get her off of the mountain and into the city. And you make her your college roommate. You help her find a job, get a G.E.D. and become a nurse.Back home after graduation, Jim is a teacher and Curly is a nurse. An angry abusive father with the help of thirteen relatives with shotguns force Jim and Curly to deal with their true feelings for one another.Later Curly is called as nurse for Ann's sick baby. When Ann's baby dies, Curly decides to become a doctor. Ann runs away to the city. Ann's husband and two of his buddies rape Curly for revenge on Jimmy's birthday. The following year, Curly goes to medical school and Jim works in a store. Then Curly gives birth to their lovechild, Lenore.A month later, Curly brings Ann home for some payback and falls in love with Ann. Curly promises to share Jimmy with Ann and that when Ann is twenty-one Ann can have their second lovechild.Does Jim bail or does he come to love Ann as much as Curly loves Ann?What happens when the Love Nest scandal hits the front page and Curly gets her fifteen minutes of fame?Follow the trail to Adventure and Romance with Curly, Ann, and Jimmy and their children.

This is A Modern Christmas Fable about an Angel whose wings are so full of dew that she cannot fly and falls into a tulip bloom in the Land of Imps and Elves and how she helps the Imps and Elves learn how to celebrate Christmas.

Two hundred and seven years ago a starship is pulled apart by a gravitational vortex. Three segments out of fourteen crash-land with survivors in three different places on Big Blue, an earthlike planet. Now two boys and a girl discover that they have been telepathically connected since before they were born to three different mothers on the Second Continent. Jeanne, DonEl, and Al'Lan become voyagers to other planets for their community. And one day they appear naked in the middle of a desert and cannot remember why they are there. Something happened in transit and they have lost their short-term memory. Jeanne is pregnant with twins: one child from each of her two husbands: DonEl and Al'Lan. And voyagers NEVER travel pregnant. So why are they in this unfamiliar place surrounded by strange telepathic animals that want to kill the unborn?

First Eighty-five Poems is a book of poetry written between January 1, 1959 and August 1, 1963 while the author was in junior high and high school. He shares what he was feeling and thinking when he wrote some of his poems. It is an autobiography in poetry. The author often considered taking his own life, but decided not to do that. The author questioned his Evangelical Protestant upbringing and later chose to be a Christian through his philosophy of life and not through the church. He served as a pastor for a number of years. The poems are presented in the order in which he wrote them and they share the feelings and questions he had during that time in his life. Readers may find his poems and comments helpful as they struggle with their own feelings about the world, their family and friends and their purpose in life.

Jwrl (Earth name: Albert) is an Anarchist who escaped execution on his planet. Now he is hiding inside the body of Rajah Sinclair with Rajah's consent so that Jwrl's natural signal will be hidden by Rajah's human animal body.Kqbt (Earth name: Lenore) can be invisible or change into the shape of any human animal that she touches. She is assigned to capture Jwrl or kill him but she also wants her usual R&R on Earth. On her planet the penalty for having sex with an animal is instant death. But she can't help herself. She falls in love with Rajah, a human animal.What is a girl to do?

Hallie gave birth to Jeanne who was a clone. Jeanne's father died in a starship disaster two hundred and eighty years ago. Jeanne's mother died four hundred years ago back on Earth. Jeanne was born with a constant psychic connection with two boys she does not know. Jeanne could not stand to be touched by anyone but Hallie. Jeanne ran away from Meld School until she was 7 years old (11 in Earth years). She ran away to be alone in the dark and warmth at the back of her mind. After she learned the names of the two boys in her head, Jeanne could get into the mind of anybody she thought about, including Hallie. And Jeanne could see through their eyes and hear through their ears and they never knew she was there.What would you do if you could do that?Every year the Red Moon eclipses the White Moon. Every five years, an ugly Green Moon aligns behind them during the eclipse.Two hundred years after their starship is pulled apart by a gravitational vortex formed by the three moons, the sun, and the planet, three children all of the same age but from three different Meld Schools bring a Change of Custom to the People of Big Blue.Big Blue is an earthlike planet with a year of 500 days. And each of those days has approximately twenty-eight hours in them. It is the Earth equivalent of 584 days in a year. A three-year-old is almost five in Earth years.The People divided the year into ten months with five weeks to a month. They had a six-day workweek and then a Sabbath day followed by a three-day weekend every week.The Sabbath is Community Service Day when all of the People go to a job or activity assigned to them by the Elders. All the other days of the week, the People could do just what they pleased. That was their Privilege. And, except for the Sabbath Day, Privilege always took precedence over Custom.The Sabbath was a Tithe of their time.Aboard the Starship, the People were having a contest to name the continents on Big Blue. Disaster ended the contest and forty thousand lives.The People are the descendants of the eighteen thousand men, women, and children who landed safely on the Second Continent.The Smythes are the descendants of 114 boys and 143 girls and one man who survived when half of the Education unit of the starship crashed into the Great Swamp and rainforest on the southern shore of the Big Continent.The Tara are descendants of seventeen hundred men, women, and children who landed safely in the Round with all the animals from the starship. They lived a thousand miles from the Smythes on the Big Continent.During the alignment of the moons every five years, the Tara sit on top of the Round, hold hands, and recite the names of the forty thousand dead Children of Tara. Their Service of Remembrance ends with the Tara Prayer:"e;From Tara we came and to Tara we shall return. We give thanks for what we have and pledge to meet with love and courage what will be. May all of our loved ones: past, present and future, be with us this day and always. Amen."e;

OUR CALL TO SERVEWE ARE LIVING WORDS OF GODWE ARE CALLED TO BE THE CHRIST"e;The Word which proceeds from the mouth of God shall not return Empty."e; From Isaiah 55:10-11.It is my personal belief that God calls each of us while we are in the womb to serve God. In calling our names in the womb, we become living words of God intended to do God's work in our world.And what is the work of God?"e;God has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you, but to do Justice and to do Loving Kindness, and to Walk Humbly with your God."e; Micah 6:8It is up to us. We have the power to do good or evil. What will you choose to do? The world is in our hands.

After his divorce, the author broke his engagement to his lover and began to live alone. Within four months he was in love again. The poetry in this volume covers his relationship with three more women before he found his soul mate and wife, Carolyn. The poetry in Volume Seven was written between February 1982 and March 1985.

Sixth Volume of Poetry: Falling in Love Again is my sixth volume of poetry. These poems were written between October 15, 1980 and December 13, 1981. They were written for and about one of my lovers. We had a wonderful courtship for about two months before the realities around us began to close in and separate us. Even then, it took over a year before we parted company.I hope you will enjoy reading it. I try to share with you all of the feelings I had as I wrote the poems. Every one of us has to struggle to be good and kind and loving.I have loved many girls and women in my life. And a part of me still loves them all. I wish you a lifetime of loving and caring for others and being loved and cared for.