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Three Amish girls dead, a serial killer on the loose, and one FBI Agent determined to bring them to justice. Abrahamstown was a quiet and quaint Amish town. It was a small town where everyone knew everyone, and there wasn’t much going on. But everything is turned upside down when FBI Agent, Jim Wellington, rolls into town after the brutal murders of three young girls. The town is thrown into a whirlwind of terror, suspense, and love as Jim seeks to bring the murderer to justice and stop the madness that’s been spreading across town. With the killer on the loose and the townsfolk hiding ...

Inside these pages dwell denizens of the mythic Old West; ranchers and rustlers, wranglers and robbers, and Pony Express riders who spirits still inhabit dusty trails. Meet the men and women fiercely protective of their land and kin. Discover their loyalty. Marvel at their sacrifices. Learn about their deep passion for the animals that convey them; their magnificent horses. Sheehan's ode to Americana is on full display here.Tom Sheehan is also the author of these fine western books: The Nations, Where Skies Grow Wide, and Cross Trails.

After a long day ridin’, ropin’, and sometimes rustlin’, cowpokes love to stop by a local saloon to wet their whistles. Card playing, loose talking, and fighting always ensued, some in good fun and others deadly serious. In this collection of stories, author Tom Sheehan rides and relaxes with them all. You’re in the right place for rollickingly good western yarns.

At this time of the year, as the nights close in and the temperature drops, winter seems like a season that nobody really enjoys, and we look forward all the more to spring. For many children, however, it is the bounty of Christmas that steals their attention, and for others the renewal of the New Year. But for Nature it is a pause for breath, to take stock of what has gone by in the year to date and ready herself for the energies and dramatic development to the landscape that spring will bring.

Author Tom Sheehan has stated that as a young man he owned five typewriters at one time. Inside each one were stories and fables, including many western yarns. Although he’s given up the typewriter for more modern technologies, Sheehan’s understanding of the mythic west in America remains as strong as a cowboy’s rope. Travel along, as those in the west traveled; on horseback, by stagecoach, and by wagon train, dust flying up into the face and dangers looming everywhere.

Displaying his usual gift of narrative, Tom Sheehan again embarks on a journey of storytelling excellence. Two dozen tales herein explore the destructive power of war, cops and robbers, fables, and family reminiscences. Sheehan won’t mind telling readers that he’s entered his 90th year, and still devotes time each day to create.

He rides tall in the saddle, dispensing justice with a gun or a word, and only when necessary. He is Thomas F. Sheehan, a western stories writer with uncommon attention to detail and subject knowledge. In this, his 8th western collection with Pocol Press, Sheehan again proves he deserves to gallop on dusty byways with many of the other western masters of the realm.

Drawing upon a lifetime of memories following Boston sports, Tom Sheehan reflects through poetry and narratives the agony and sweat of those engaged, along with their fandom.Tom Sheehan is also the author of these fine short story collections: A Collection of Friends, From the Quickening and In the Garden of Long Shadows.

As a young man, Thomas F. Sheehan eagerly devoured the old stories of cowboys, cattle, canyons, and creeks that aided our American west-spread growth, much like those B&W giants of old western movies and their most unforgettable “B” type casts. These characters came alive for him as early heroes. As homage to the genre and those that created it, Sheehan writes his own tales of the frontier. And somewhere, Tom Mix is smiling...

Ride along shotgun with prolific author Tom Sheehan as he blazes new western tales across the prairie. In this collection, his 7th with Pocol Press, Sheehan pens moralistic short stories brimming with frothy beverages imbibed at a local saloon, passionate revenge, romantic sequences, and plenty of gunplay.

In Where Skies Grow Wide, storyteller extraordinaire Thomas F. Sheehan brings out a new collection of western stories where cowpoke card games exude tension, rustlers roam causing havoc, and sweet revenge reveals itself through righteous gunplay. Saddle up, pardner…

The Nations is a short fiction set containing twenty stories by master storyteller Thomas F. Sheehan. These tales celebrate the heroic deeds and legends of various Native American Indian tribes (Cherokee, Kiowa, Lakota) of the Old West in the United States.

Dime novels, so named for their cost over 150 years ago, thrilled readers who devoured to learn of the fantastical adventures of western heroes. Often these stories contained a measured hero, a cowboy, Indians, and gun violence. Truth and justice inevitably triumphed. This formula of western heroes further captured the public imagination when translated to film. Prolific western maven Thomas F. Sheehan cut his boyhood teeth reading western stories and saddling up to western films. This book represents one of a dozen books of Sheehan’s western short story collections.

This short fiction collection by storytelling master Thomas Sheehan explores the human condition from soaring heights to depraved depths and everything else in between. If John Donne had not penned his line “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind”, Thomas Sheehan certainly would have.

In the Garden of Long Shadows is a short fiction collection of two dozen works by literary master storyteller Thomas F. Sheehan. Drawing on his favorite themes of love and war and deep personal reflection, Sheehan’s writing resounds in singing the praises of man.