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Miranda Hope was raised at her daddy's knee, learning poker from the ground up. When most girls were playing with dolls and hoping for boyfriends, she was learning how to detect a short deck, how to set one and how to slip or bottom deal. Her daddy did not want her to cheat, he wanted her to know how it's done, because the gift he gave her would make her rich, but, if she failed, destroy her. With the sudden, violent death of her father, she is thrust out into the world, perhaps too soon, or maybe, just at the right time. Calling on reserves and instincts she did not even know she possesses...

Cat is a determined, talented, crime fighting machine. But she has an odd ability… and she has caught the eye of the CIA. But, is it for her benefit… or theirs? Her handsome, helpful training partner is a force onto himself, and he can show her the ropes. He can also keep those who would kill her at bay… inside or outside the CIA. Still, he is drawn to her though she scares him, at times. He has never seen anything like her. But, out of her heritage comes an ancient evil god from Central America. He wants to set up the sacrifices, the killing, all over again. Like it or not, she is ...

There are angels and demons. Anyone remotely familiar with the Bible knows that. We cannot just choose what we want to believe. Occasionally, they meet, right here on earth, and Hell breaks loose. But Michael, a gunslinger & a bounty hunters knows how to handle it. He even knows how to call in help. But if demons learn from their brethren’s past mistakes, this one is a master, and everyone has to sharpen up. First, save the ranch, save the woman, save the town, and if it confines the demon, maybe that is a win. Maybe. #TheStoryteller- Enjoy!

This is a tongue in cheek tale of a highly romantic but very illogical song written forty plus years ago, Seven Spanish Angels. Perhaps if we look over the players, one will go with God, and perhaps, one will not. But the song relays the wrong message. Tragic, but the west and Mexico were full of this dichotomy. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller

Raven is a woman on a mission. She has little room for a man in her busy life. True, she wins at all things. It is her personality, her determination and her skills that get her what she wants. However, they can get her in trouble, too. Those are lessons. She will tell you her story. Perhaps, it will save you your own hard learned lessons. Wisdom comes from mistakes. It is not easily passed on. But, she can try... Enjoy. She is waiting...

The young Count-Heir was not much different than a lot of his late teen generation in 1866. But he had it made if he stayed put and paid his dues learning his father's company. But he was a dreamer. Far, rugged wilderness called. Being Frenchy the fur trapper seemed so romantic. Or, changing one out for another, perhaps a ranch? Maybe a steamboat Captain shipping furs. A gunman? Maybe. Hell, why not a mink farm? Yeah, that seemed great! But life is what happens when we make plans. Especially if you have a good woman by your side.. #TheStoryteller.

Bush pilot Jon Francisco for Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska gets lost in a storm. Plane crash. semi-modern era, 1970ish.. Man meets odd family, one old man, one old woman, one lovely Indian mix daughter, living on a small island that connects to British Columbia, Canada, via an almost always under water rocky bridge called Wolf Narrows. No harbor, no boats, no nothing. No radio. The people are self sufficient, no need to seek help or supplies, nothing. Simple lives, dangerous ground. Like Wolverton Mountain (1969) Claude King, the old man will tolerate no man near his daughter. Gonna be tough...

Sometimes being lucky is better than being good. Even if it stings a little. He should be a vampire. He should be dead. He is a vampire, in a way. But then, from the depths of despair and loss, even rage,. he finds friends, a badge, a mission, and yes, love.Can she save him when the vampires go down? And, with his determination, they must go down, even if it means the end of himself. Fingers crossed. It could be luck. Maybe God's plan to save the west. Either will work. A #DarkWestern Vampire Tale by #TheStoryteller, G. Weldon Tucker

It started as a better way to enhance the James Webb Space Telescope. A unit that looked the other way. It needed a team of people, and it needed a helpful AI system. Artificial Intelligence took over most of the work, but it did not rule out the need for human hands and minds. Then came a devastating discovery. A civilization of cyborgs, AI driven units in an expanding, circular wave, carefully harvesting only the warm planets like Earth, in a rapidly growing flat plane right toward Earth itself. It will take the combined minds of man and AI alike to stop the scourge, before it is too late...

Roland was a man out of place, a boy who had been pushed through the system, learning war, learning Christianity and learning to kill. Like most soldiers, he did not learn to hate. He followed orders just as soldiers do in this era. But he came from the thirteenth century, the sixth and seventh crusades. He did not hate the infidels, he simply did as he was told, and did it well. However, he bravely fought through Damietta as the Templar Knights, all of 290 strong in their frightening armor and massive horses, along with well over a 200,000 member strong Frankish army and calvary (French), ...

They fought like cats and dogs all through their growiing years, only brought under control when he finally got as tall as his stepsister. Of the same family, they drew no blood but plenty of hurt feelings. Two more determined winners could not be found. Then, somehow, they grew up. One to Military MP Service, the other to school, both focused on criminology, determined to somehow make a difference. Tragic circumtances bring them to the old house in central Illinois, where they reconnect and find themselves entirely different in their feelings toward one another. The story will catch your ...

Rose did not want to take up that badge. Not the thing that killed her husband.But vengeance is a dark coal in the heart. She was competent, determined and angry. She met her partner on the ridge, just before the fight. He changed... just about everything! And he got her through it all. But she was by then a very different creature.

CHAOS History: According to Zoroastrianism, the main religion in the Persian Empire, Ahriman or Angra Mainyu was the god of all that is bad and chaotic in the world. He is the evil twin brother of Spenta Mainyu or Ahura Mazda; the “Wise Lord.” Everything that the latter one did, Ahriman would do the opposite. This where it all started. We are nearing where it will finish. Sound familiar?

Even the most determined space sailor will grow tired of the endless search for a habitable planet. And this one looks really good. Earth-like, but it is exactly mirrored. There is no sign of life, at first which might mean a silent world, theirs for the taking. Good air, water, land, and all they need. Except for the damned roaches. Remember the warning? When all else is gone, who or what will rule the world? Yeah, cockroaches. Then it is proven that life died as we know it more than twenty to thirty thousand years ago! Is this the world we are heading for on Earth? Could be. Now they ...

There will come a time when mankind must seek new homes as Earth is full up. There are two ways to do this: new planets, and huge space stations. Those stations are already on the drawing boards. We will find ways to expand a simple station to hold a half million people, someday, but that is a long way out. And we will need many of them. This is not a warning. It is merely a test that stood for a long time and would have remained forever, had they not met aliens. If they are out there, they are not part of the plan and things can go awry. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller

He came home in one piece, a long damned war, in the blues, fighting the grays. It was over. But he had no idea what some would carry their fight well beyond the battlefield. Abe was a man who could take care of himself. Not necessarily those he loved. What he could do was pick up and try again, in spite of the odds. Now he was put to the test. Would it never end? He found good people from those he hardly understood, and, by God, he would answer that deliberate challenge. His way. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller

Nature can be unkind. The death of a den is a traumatic event to any wolf. No matter that the wolf is the apex predator, like any form of killer, there is sometimes something bigger, stronger, and just as deadly. So, the little pup is on his own. Maybe nature, maybe the Great Spirit, even God, might have taken notice. The little guy had gone through hell. He had not eaten in two days and his chance of survival ran right between slim and none. Red Bird Singing, Red to her white man’s family who raised her, has an affinity for animals, for healing and for a lot more she does not yet ...

In the land of the frozen north, Norway, there lived people of interesting skills. Survival was to the fittest, the most talented, and often most persistent. Dragons are, of course, mythical and exist in a place called Imagination, the land that children keep alive. But this is not a children's tale. A dragon is loose in Viking land, and the people are no match for it. It will take a very determined woman and her man to try to tame it, but as we know, you cannot trust a dragon. Enjoy! #TheStorytreller

The secrets of Nicaragua were kept hidden for decades. The first ruin discovered brought puzzlement with no agreement. It would take a pair of serious, curious explorers to make sense of it. Then, they get wind of something even more intriguing, and it is a long hike into nowhere to find it. If they can find it. And all this time, Volcano Row, only partly extinct, requires the same over-the-shoulder watch as if looking for bandits or Indio. Life is cheap in the mid-twentieth century, true for most explorers of that era.