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"Just a very short memoir... of getting the 'finger'. Again. If you're getting on up there in years and you still haven't had it, come along with me for the practice. It's a barrel of fun... Not."

Guess What! You have just found out your high school teenager is going to NYC for their annual trip. Should you panic now, or wait til you hear the price? One parent's short memoir of Band Trip sticker shock!

Driving through Georgia? Take a pocketful of Quarters. Why? Because there are some places there where it now costs A Quarter to Pee. My friend Amy found out the hard way. She had none. This is her story.

When you are born in the South you are different. And you always will be.

Sometimes you have to meet the wrong person to meet the right person. Janice was definitely NOT the right person for Jeff...a revelation that came to him while "playing the piano" at her dad's house. The same dad who just happens to be a detective...and is on to Jeff's misdeeds with his daughter.

What it is really like to spend time with a homeless person, in the city that was once known as "Bombingham." 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.

Have you ever known someone briefly...then they were taken away suddenly? It's not like a family member. It's different. But still leaves you hurting.

Have you ever had something happen to you that defies all logic? That happened to the author and a friend, when they went to the sleepy little Southern town of Pulaski,Tennessee, to watch the Klan...And ended up...You will have to read it to believe it - or disbelieve it - yourself.

It probably hasn't happened to you. Hope it doesn't. You're in love, you have children, and out of the blue.... You lose it all. "And That's That." One woman's true story of when it happened to her.

There are three great truths in the book Moneyball that will help you become more successful in your life.... On Balls Alone shows you what they are and why they are so important to you.

This article discusses the missing key that helped the author earn more money as a new indie writer. That key is speed, as evidenced by the Oregon Ducks. See how speed breaks all the traditional rules and can help you in the new and changing world of ePublishing.... Just like it did for the Ducks...and led them to a Rose Bowl Championship....

A young man has to learn the hard way about the pitfalls of not paying attention to the law of supply and demand. He is a quick learner, though.

Navy Lieutenant G. Palmatier has a small problem: A polar bear. But he's not going to let a little thing like that come between him and the crazy redhead he loves. Especially since he's so drunk he won't feel a thing til after it is all over. Don't try what he tries at home.

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.

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.

Join me as I return to Seventh Grade for One Day... to help a Science Teacher as she tries to do the impossible: Teach 36 kids each class, all day long. I spent not even one day with this teacher and I know: There must be a special place in heaven for her. Get ready for one wild and funny ride!

While a kid in Germany... A completely naive young American army brat... I saw a young Jew get beat up badly. But don't jump to conclusions... It is wrong to do so. Read the story first. And only then judge....

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