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Read how the author took his emotions, and experiences and put them in poetry and short stories during a global crisis.

During the covid 19 pandemic, the world raced against time. As scientists worked to get a cure for this disease, people were locked down and kept from living the basic freedom a person can have. As people were reported dying in the thousands, and chaos was occurring around the country and around the world, the author went to his writing talents, to be able to keep a sense of sanity. During this time the world was closed, distant and not available. As you read this novel, you will feel his back and forth emotional changes he suffered. Kept away from playing sports, being with his friends and family, the writer focused on creating certain writing works as a way to record what he saw and experienced during the pandemic. Amazingly, the author creates a world of fictional characters and stories, while staying away from becoming infected with the virus. A time of historic uncertainty became this author’s time to write.

This collection is written boldly and lyrically for fans of poetry, expressing emotions we experience in life, such as love, laughter and pain. There are thought-provoking essays. Your intellect will be challenged. Some of these writings will have you grabbing for a dictionary. The logic and concerns expressed by the author on topics such as peace, family, war, oppression, veterans, hope and faith, will make each reader think and consider views from a different perspective.

Editors: Dr. Patricia H. Graham, Ms. Amy Russ, Ms. Kay Wolf

Through Their Eyes: The Quill Took Flight is an anthology of student writings based on their personal life experiences. These works include poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by second language learners from around the world. Additionally, other students such as Cherokee and Appalachian have submissions, which include Native American customs and stories such as the history of ginseng in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Reflections on Nature is a major transitional writing style for Ms. Graham. Accustomed to writing books in a genre based on Southern Fiction, Ms. Graham has ventured out of her comfort zone to explore and redefine her role as a transcendental author.

Reflections on Nature is a creative view of exploring the good, the bad, and the ugly based on themes surrounding nature. Reflecting on nature itself is quite beautiful, but contrasted with the nature of man will stun and shock many. The natural relationship between God and Ms. Graham is evident through her creative prose and poetry. A must read for anyone who yearns for a better understanding about life, themselves, and others.

Virginia Tolles, author of Tales Along the Way Home (ISBN 9781424127405), has compiled a collection of her poetry and short fiction for your enjoyment. These works, known as A Part of Me, range from serious to lightly comedic and are drawn from her own life. Each is warm, endearing, and relaxing to read. You won’t want to miss reading a single one.

• Meet Adele, who, at the age of seventy, was sentenced to work off a habitual speeding habit by teaching driver’s education to teenagers at a detention center.
• Esperanza must decide whether to pursue the fast track in Washington, DC, or a more hands-on career in her hometown.

Virginia spent her career as an editor for government agencies and contractors. Now, she writes for and maintains her websites and is learning more about writing haiku and other forms of poetry.

The subject of creation is commonly regarded as an arena of incompatibility between science and religion. This book is an attempt to harmonize scientific theories regarding the beginning of the universe and the existence of living beings with the story of creation revealed within the Bible.

The anecdotal approach employed in this book contains accurate historical references, albeit melded with distinguishably fictitious stories that intertwine with the realities of our past to illustrate the drama on which our narrative embarks.

This work is not in any way intended to compromise the teaching of the Church for the sake of accommodating the scientific theories of mankind. On the contrary, it is the objective of this book, as previously stated, through sound reasoning and the powerful and clear voice of fiction, to show that both teachings could be equally accepted.

This book is about all the times that I prayed to GOD for material things thinking that those things would make me feel better about myself. I realized that is not how you are supposed to pray and with that wisdom I found happiness. It took for me to fall a thousand times to realize I rose to personal success. After all it is what I think of me that matters the most. I was a person that wanted to have what others had not caring that what they had may not be what’s best for me. I wanted to always please others and by doing so I neglected my inner being. I realize now that I am human and I make human mistakes. I am far from perfect but I’m striving every day to walk in the glory of who matters to me most…GOD.

A collection of poems and short stories. A Writer of Time is about a man who writes poetry and short stories that have been inspired by his life experiences. You can read and visualize the changes in his life as he writes each poem and short story.

“Are there pets in heaven?” “Is there sex in heaven?” “What would Jesus drive?” Often lighthearted in tone but always thoroughly rooted in scripture, the editorials in Altar Ego Musings are drawn from five years of publication in the Northern Virginia Daily. They deal with scientific interests from a biblical perspective: evolution (“Religion, Revolution and Evolution”, “Up from the Slime”), astronomy (“Talking to Extraterrestrials”, “Lost in Space: Feel the Wonder”), popular political questions (“Which Ten Commandments”, “A Good Book for Schools”), popular holidays (“St. Patrick for Protestants”, “Late for Christmas”, “First Christmas Eve: No ‘Silent Night’”, “Resurrection Rabbit”, “Easter Disappointment,”) the relationship between Christianity and Judaism and Secular Humanism, prayer, biblical interpretation, and a five article exploration of the Noah’s Ark story. Most of the more than fifty editorials include introductory comments and concluding remarks by the author, a retired Lutheran pastor and graduate of Princeton theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary, New York.

Poems and writings of love and darkness... of acceptance and betrayal... of happiness and sadness... and everything in between.