Marshall: 1961 books

The casual word around town is I’m wasting my education, especially after I got out of the Army. The Army. I can say for a fact the Army shaped me, both for good and for bad, but I imagine everyone can make that same claim. Since I was a child working in my dad’s machinist shop, I have...

Captain (Cap) Lincoln Washington Hutchins III is 26 years old in standard years, but the war in Vietnam robbed him of many things beside his youth. Leaving the Army as a Captain, he goes home to Houston to find parents that argue over nothing, a girlfriend who cheats on him, and people who think he's...

SVEN’S CONTRIBUTION is a Sci-Fi novelette of approximately fifty pages, but what happens in those fifty pages could spell the end for the human race as we know it. Determined to make a lasting contribution, Sven enters the cloud.

Ever since I can remember, folks called me Dickey. Word is it was after the famous guitar player Dickey Betts. Never mind that my name is Harold James Parker and I look nothing like the man. It all started when I was 8 and got a kid’s plastic guitar. Supposedly I was spotted trying to trade licks...

This continues the adventures of Lincoln Washington Hutchins III who is known to his friends as Cap from his Army Captain days in Vietnam. He’s a half-breed Lakota Sioux Indian born and raised in Houston, Texas. After two tours in Vietnam and getting a full medical discharge, he went home only to...

A man wakes up in a field on his knees vomiting out his guts. He looks around and for as far as he can see there is nothing he remembers. The smell of fresh cut grass is the first thing that enters his senses as he sits up and looks around. The sun is just creeping over the horizon and immediately...

I've heard all my life that big things come in small packages and that is probably because I was almost a midget until the 10th grade. Over the next two years I went from 5-4 to what I like to think is 5-10, but is probably a bit shy of it. Hell, with cowboy boots on, I'm okay and taller than most...

From as far back as I can remember, I hated the name Sammy, or Sam, or anything other than my given name of Samuel. My mom named me after a profit in the Bible and he wasn't called little Sammy that I know of. I don't think people picked on him either like they did me. Maybe it's because I was shorter...

Literate world history took shape during the course of the third millennium BCE chiefly in the Mesopotamian land of Sumer. There is a vast difference between the way secular scholars process this data and the way believers in the Bible can and should process it. By accepting at face value both the...

Flora Richmond announced to the school her pending retirement as a grade six teacher. On her way home that Friday, she made her usual stop at a local 7-Eleven to buy her weekly lotto 649 ticket. She used the same numbers each week, bought them from the same ticket seller, and on her way to her car...

Seth Harrington can be invisible or undetectable, but he is not a superhero. The ability only works in morally grey situations; the rest of the time, he can’t turn it on and off at will. He can use a movie ticket stub to buy a coffee or a one-dollar bill to pay for a cell phone. He can stop muggings...

Inspiriert von H. P. Lovecrafts klassischer Erzählung ?Der Schatten über Innsmouth? wagen sich 16 moderne Meister des Schreckens noch einmal an die Küste New Englands in das verfluchte Fischerdorf Innsmouth mit seinen abscheulichen, nicht ganz menschlichen Bewohnern .... Inhalt: Stephen Jones:...

A homeless shelter, five minutes into the future. A chance for redemption. A Smashwords debut.

A short story of 9700 words. A retelling of the Rapunzel story. When a witch claims a couple's newborn daughter in exchange for the father's trespass and theft, she finally has the daughter she's always wanted. As Rapunzel grows and matures, however, the witch finds that even with all her powers, she cannot keep her child from growing up.