About the book The Muddy Little Bell consists of stories, legends, dialogues and essays, based on the authors folkloristic writing style. Each story is self-contained and was inspired by an incident happening in the authors life or by a city or a c...
Dance Around the Treasure Box is a novel, which was written at the end of the Vietnam War years and rewritten in 2013-2014. It focuses on the ups and downs of a Vietnam War hero, Fred, readjusting to the United States, finding a job in the Greater L...
The novel “Two Summers of Adjustment” was written in the 1980s and rewritten in 2014/2015. It focuses on several incidents that got the author interested to write the novel. One was the imprisonment of an innocent man and how he had to adjust to ...
This book consists of forty-four tales or fairy tales or recollections of the author or of others the author spoke to or listened to. It deals with modern-day fairy tales, most of which are more for an older child or adult reader than for little chil...
Cindy the Balcony Cocoon is a charming telling of Anne, an eight-year-old child, living in a big apartment building in a big city high up on a big floor, where no pets are allowed. With the help of Anne’s father, Anne suddenly has a pet merely due ...
The two novelettes in the book Out of Balance refer to two almost impossible situationsone between heaven and the underworld and the other between two brothers about the house of their father. Each has a hero or heroine who has to work his or her way...
There are fifty-four stories in the edition Stories, Tales, Folklore & Such As. They were written over the years from the late 1950s to the present. Some of the stories or tales served as jumping boards from which longer stories or tales were wri...
The children story of Ferdy and Irene is a fairy tale that focuses on an individual, Ferdy the duck, being alone and trying to make the best of it, no matter into what kinds of situations Ferdy gets. By finally finding a companion, no matter what ki...
The book covers three short, short stories and is directed at the reader of all ages. It deals with the subject of grandma being a modern-day grandma, a problem the sun has with the moon, and a traveler to an Asian city finding a hotel with wheels....
Moving to Alaska is a novel which is told by the hero of the novel, Ritchie Jenkins the Younger, in moments of reminiscing his travels with his father to Alaska and then alone back to Vermont. Thereafter, there are repeated travels back and forth bet...