A body is found hanging from a noose made from a bell rope! Is this just the start of things to come? The deceptively quiet remote village is shattered after a brazen obnoxious outsider purchases The Old Vicarage - strange disappearances occur. It wasn?t until the gruesome village history was revealed - that the baffled police could solve the chilling mysteries connected to the bell tower. The fictitious villager's charact...

Do you like stories that display and showcase the strength of a woman? Feminine Shades depicts the heroism, super-power, and survivor traits subsumed in these seven tales. A young lady is trapped in an abusive marriage. A wife struggles to find her self-worth as a wife, mother, and career-woman. A widow tries to keep hope alive, and seeks a better tomorrow in the midst of hardships faced by herself and her children. An underg...

A young boy describes his experiences with various desert phenomena. He traces the paths of lightning across a monsoon sky with his eyes and watches the world turn reddish brown as a dust storm approaches. He sees the sunset as the product of a giant squeezing tubes of paint from below the horizon and canyon walls as layers from the mud, sun, and parched-land years. The desert provides wonderful sensations for him to explore....