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You attend a beautiful church near downtown. The area is getting an influx of blacks and Hispanics. The church has a meeting to decide what to do. Do you sell the church and move to a "nicer" place? How would you vote? And how does God really feel about...White Flight.

We all do it. Try to keep up a good front. When maybe, just maybe, things aren't all that great behind the scenes. Meet Sylvia. Like all of us, she knows the importance of a beautiful front yard. And is willing to do the work necessary to have one. No matter what.

A 12-year-old is depressed. He is confined to his wheelchair for a lifetime. He wants another gun. He has 10 already. What do you do? And.... It's Christmas. You love your three-year-old more than anything else in this world. Would you buy him or her...a real gun? One family did.

This is a short memoir about the time Elvis came into my father's "Greasy Spoon" Cafe... and about the tragic end of the girl in Florence, Alabama, that he had come to see.

It is the first day of the Civil War...and Charlie Bateaux's got big, big plans for getting rich. But they don't go quite as Charlie had in mind. In fact...they go way wrong. From the author of "Mosquito Creek, 1865" and many other Civil War and non-Civil War Stories including "The Killing of Train-Man Brown," "Then Her Wig Fell Off," "Send Me a Friend, and "Slow Foreplay on a Fast Bust," comes "Charlie Bateaux, 1861."

Jerry "Boogie" McCain was one of the last of the old Blues Musicians. He had three ways he could kill you. The best was with that blues harp. You don't want to know about the other two. I was fortunate enough to live in the same town as him and to talk with him just weeks before he died. This is what I know of him, and of his life, death, and funeral. I went to the funeral, and followed him all the way to his last resting place. By doing so I was present when the most important thing about Boogie was made known

What do you do when you see children whose lives are so bad it breaks your heart? One woman took a risk. What she saw was none of her business. But to love...was her business. From the author of a Top-100 Free eBook for Kindle, "Killing of Train-Man Brown" and "The Christmas Mirror: Santa's Last Letter to a Wonderful Child" (number-one in two categories in both the US and UK).

It's a typical Christmas Eve. All except for the hot weather. And the head.

From the author of a Top 100 Free for Kindle Story "The Killing of Train-Man Brown" comes As An Angel Might Sleep: Never Turn Away.

A lost love story...brought together again in a beautiful snow....

Some Marriages are a little bit different from others. This is one of those. Do not call the police on me. This is fiction. It did NOT happen.

From the author of "The Killing of Train-Man Brown", "Send Me a Friend", and "Then Her Wig Fell Off..." comes "A Marriage Story".

From the author of Slow Foreplay on a Fast Bus comes All the Heart's Fault. There is a knock on the door. It is the silence of the night. You come awake slowly. The knock won't go away. You realize it is time again. Death is at the door once more. Also by the same author, The Killing of Train-Man Brown and Send Me a Friend and many, many more short stories.

Jezebel "Jessie" Bizzard has a big problem. Her father. She will be alone with him for three days. Will she survive?

There really was a New Hope Crash and at the end of this story I will tell you the best place to read about it. The New Hope Crash has been on my mind for many years. I could never shake it. Finally, I went to see the crash site myself, and returning home wrote this story. It will tell you how I first came to hear and know about the real New Hope Crash and how I combined fact and fiction to I hope bring the story of that fateful evening to more and more readers across the nation and the world than those who had previously known about it.

This is the second of the four books in the Civil War Cover-Up Series. Do NOT purchase it or read it if you have not already read Book One: The Stone Lee Papers. Books Three and Four will be published immediately after the November 2012 Presidential Elections. Read Why in The Civil War Cover-Up, Book Two: Threatened By The President. "The question I am most asked is this: Is this True? I have to tell you that it is fiction. Do you understand? You will find out why in this and the next book." - Will Bevis

From the author of a top 100 Free for Kindle eStory "The Killing of Train-Man Brown" and "Then Her Wig Fell Off" and "Send Me a Friend", "Slow Foreplay on a Fast Bus", and many, many other stories comes... "Carabella: Beautiful Face of My Father - My Mental Breakdown on I-65 South." A short memoir of a family that must have been out of their minds to do what they did - be completely spontaneous for one brief moment in their lives... describing the adventure it took them on... And the memory it created that lives on in one son's heart.

The old woman living in the high rise for the elderly was the same as all those around her.... With one exception...

This short article that you are about to read has become, without my intending it to be, the most controversial thing I have ever written. It is about a bus trip I took to the Gulf of Mexico, sponsored by my kid's school - with about fifty pre-teens and first-year teenagers on board - as well as three or four parents and teachers... who all made the mistake of sitting in the front of the bus, where they were blind to what was going on behind them. I was the only one who sat in the back, and who had a clear view ahead of everything that was happening.....

"Let the Dog Drive" reached number one in the Free Category "Dogs" in Germany, and number four in the same category in the US., January 7, 2012. Thanks to all who made that possible - wb. Nine months is a long time. Even love forgets. From the Author of "The Killing of Train-Man Brown", "Send Me a Friend", and "Then Her Wig Fell Off", comes..."Let The Dog Drive", a very short story. But one that will tug on your heart.

"Then Her Wig Fell Off" is a story that I heard and wrote about, in a hair salon - the same one that is pictured on the cover of the book. Inside you will meet the person I call "The Magician" who takes anyone who walks through the door, and not only makes their hair look better, but makes them FEEL better as well. Even if they are old...or have cancer. We're all human, both the beautiful and the not so; those in their prime and those dying. This is a story that lifts the human spirit.

Will Bevis is a prolific writer of short, sometimes controversial "slice of life" stories, articles, essays, and memoirs that make you feel you are right there, experiencing the story as it it happens.