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After 47 years of a great relationship, courtship, and marriage, the author found himself alone. His wife had struggled with a rough fight with dementia. Suddenly, she took an unexpected turn for the worse, leaving him alone for the first time in his adult life. He was 64 at the time, but felt more like he was 40 physically and 95 emotionally.

This short work attempts to explain how I write using the "pantser method" to craft stories and books. I've done my best to sum it up in terms that are easy to understand. I've also included some basic writing methods that have helped me write and a technique to help you self-edit.

Based on my career as a medic, this is an uplifting story of a young boy who at the age of nine claims to been visited by an angel with the promise of divine protection until he has fulfilled an unnamed task at some point in his life. Over the years, he finds that time after time, something or someone helps him avoid a certain tragedy. His life completely changes one morning in a ditch in the front yard of a church as he is called on to resuscitate a young boy who has stopped breathing.

A husband writes about his romance, marriage, honeymoon, and life with the woman of his dreams. Tender moments of love and intimacy build a strong relationship that can not be torn apart by her history of sexual abuse as a child, and her slow decline into dementia and Alzheimer's. Written by the author of the February 2018 Rave Review Book Club "Book of the Month" selection, The Totally Unnecessary Death of Amanda Dawn, the listener gets to feel some of the joy, the love, the intimacy, the happiness, the pain, regret, and the sadness of this relationship over 40-plus years.

A modern-day Aesop's Fables story of how a father readied his son for adulthood using short stories and sayings. Using a sense of humor and a knack for finding ways of using everyday happenings, this story explains how the author's father taught his son real lessons in life.

This is a true story of Alicia, a young woman the author met back in college back in 1972. She was "smokin' hot", and he was an overweight farm boy who had no idea that women such she even existed. The woman is already involved in a small town "sex for money" deal with some "friends" of hers. As time goes by, Alicia is making a lot more money but is blind to the fact that she is being sucked into a dirty system that begins to overtake her. The story is based on the conversations the two had throughout the next 20-some years.

A little boy in a small rural town is more than he seems to be. He speaks frequently and lovingly of his 'other family' from long ago. A college friend of the mom, now a college instructor, convinces the family to allow him to 'revert' the boy back to that earlier point in time with disastrous results.

My real life story of a brain injury I sustained while at work back in 1981. While the day of the injury is described, it goes much deeper than the injury. At that point in time, there were few definitive medical protocols for the physical and emotional healing following a severe closed head injury. Everyone thought I was faking it until an event that was witnessed by an entire emergency room team.

A group of men pool their money to purchase a lot of cocaine to sell in their neighborhood. After a shaky start coming up with the cash, the man who came up with the idea begins to play a game with the profits that upsets Victor, his largest contributor. When promised payouts don't begin to show up, things begin to get a bit testy, leading one man to begin to seek other ways to get his money back. One by one, Victor seeks his revenge against the rest of the group. Slowly the gang's membership dwindles until there is only one more to find.

A story of a 'space traveler' from the mind of a seven-year-old boy as it was explained to his grandfather. Moreover, it is the love story between the boy and the old man as they both learn and remember valuable lessons in life.

This man was a brutal killer - cold, methodical, emotionally untouched by his cruel acts. He described these murders to me much as you might recount a pleasant Sunday drive. This is not a story for the squeamish or faint of heart. I can hear him tell me how he attacked the final three victims and how he messed with their minds in their remaining minutes. I hear him a lot some nights. It has been over 35 years since I last saw him, and I still remember his last words to me: "Watch your step."

The true story of a medic who finds himself at the site of a horrific accident involving more than a dozen victims. As the medics work to rescue the survivors, Mitch finds one man hopelessly trapped and running out of time. The medic stays with the man, and a conversation between the two begins. It all transpires over 21 minutes, but it changes the life of the medic.

The Man in the Corner Booth tells the story of how a waitress and a tired old man affected the lives around them.

A woman walks the short distance from a New Year’s Eve party to her home in a snowstorm, but she was never seen alive again. It isn’t until the next day her husband realizes she didn’t come home. Eight days later, her body was found in a low-laying ditch in a marshy area. What follows is the story of the investigation as the killer continues to prey on people who make the mistake of getting in his way.

This is the "backstory" of Finding Myself Again. This story is told to the author as she tells him about her youth. She explains how she came to be taken advantage of by men who were more than willing to use whatever she would allow them to use. Everything was good for a while, but then things began to get out of hand. Each relationship brings more abuse, more scars, and more fear.

A man who seems to have everything suddenly loses it all and ends up homeless and unemployed in a major city. With winter setting in hard, he struggles to remain alive, but his hopes of making it back to normalcy are rapidly diminishing. Then came the night he ended up on his knees with a pistol to the back of his head.

A conspiratorial tale of the 2012 presidential election season based somewhat on the real events leading up to the 2012 election. Events after the election are pure fiction. The story centers on a manuscript found in 2023 but written in 2012. It tells the story of the manuscripts the author and several of his friends starting about September 10, 2012.

A story of generational abuse of a young boy who becomes a young man, first suffering abuse as a boy and then fighting the inner battle to keep from hurting those around him. Many of the events were experienced or witnessed by the author.

A horrific car crash leads to problems for the people who scavenged the remnants of the accident scene. A small and peaceful town becomes a nightmare for those involved. This 19,000 word short story makes for a nice afternoon or evening listen!

This is a true story, and it was the character that I have named "Ken" who told me this story. I've known him now for about 30 some years, and he really was a lifetime drunk with his career in drinking starting in his senior year in high school. The shame of it all was that he had been given a full basketball scholarship to attend one of the bigger, medium-sized colleges in Michigan. He showed up to the first summer basketball camp absolutely plastered, and they cut him and his scholarship on the spot.