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May 28, 2011
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Darrel Bird
Biography
Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.
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Series
Between Havana and The Deep Blue Sea
by Darrel Bird
Between Havana and The Deep Blue Sea
Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea
Between Louisiana and the Deep Blue Sea
Between Havana and The Deep Blue Sea
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea
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$1.99 USD.
Between Louisiana and the Deep Blue Sea
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$1.99 USD.
Books
Charlie
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 19,710.
Language:
English.
Published: October 20, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
(5.00 from 1 review)
The timeline is apocalyptic America. Brandon Linn has lost his family, and wants to die, but instead, he rescues a little 7 year old girl who changes his life.
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Forty Acres and a Mule
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 7,390.
Language:
English.
Published: July 20, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » USA
Josh Barnes has had most of his land stolen, and he marries a black girl just after the civil war.
John Bertram is dead set on having the girl back on his farm. He takes her by force.
The Compound
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 10,720.
Language:
English.
Published: May 6, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
Paul Murphy has had his house blown up, his wife killed, his job gone, and he hits the road walking with the clothes on his back. He is picked up by a man and woman who is heading for a safe compound in Colorado, but is that a safe place?
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White Peak
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 13,950.
Language:
English.
Published: March 6, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
(3.00 from 1 review)
An FBI agent is sent back to Montana where he was raised to find out who murdered two Indian surveyors who were surveying for a casino. As he delves into the problems at White Peak he finds murder, corruption and greed.
The Winslow War
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 7,270.
Language:
English.
Published: February 5, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
Blake Rendell returns home from fighting in the civil war, only to find most of his family dead, and yet another war brewing over grazing land. Carson will stop at nothing to see Blake dead.
Crazy Lou
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 9,830.
Language:
English.
Published: November 20, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » General
The time is right before the rapture and Crazy Lou talks to a white angel stamped on her bag. Driven to kill, her fate is yet to be decided in a world where insanity may be the merciful thing. A man, a woman and a child find her in the old mill just before she has passed over the brink of complete insanity.
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A Yondering
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 14,220.
Language:
English.
Published: November 6, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Jason Allen heads west from the Clinch Mountains of Tennessee , and these are his adventures during the time the west is being settled. When he leaves the Mountains of Tennessee, he has his rifle and his mule. Trouble soon begins to loom in his path as he makes his way to the Wyoming territories.
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Between Louisiana and the Deep Blue Sea
by Darrel Bird
Series: Between Havana and The Deep Blue Sea, Book 3.
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 8,780.
Language:
English.
Published: September 16, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
Jim Grady is off on another adventure, this time by land as he rescues another kidnapped girl.
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The Chicken Plucker
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 4,720.
Language:
English.
Published: July 13, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » General
(3.75 from 4 reviews)
Sage Kennedy was a 20 year old virgin in New York, until she meets Dylan Dubois, and falls madly in love with him. He takes her back home with him to Louisiana, and her life takes a vastly different turn.
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One Eye Open
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 9,620.
Language:
English.
Published: July 2, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
The government redacted the constitution until it was unrecognizable, and then the shooting started. The war quickly cut the food and fuel transportation, and ten years later people fought just to survive. Without a constitution the law was a gun if you were lucky enough to have one.
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A Yoke Unequal
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 9,230.
Language:
English.
Published: May 23, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Inspirational
A Christian woman marries a man who is not a Christian. He is in the CIA, and he gets an assignment to Siberia.
Long Time Gone
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 8,820.
Language:
English.
Published: March 22, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » General
Change comes to us all. Sometimes in a moment, sometimes it comes gradually. Cody Anson, and his neighbors wife, Denise Banks leave early one Saturday morning on a business trip while his neighbor, Dale Banks, leaves to take a group of boys including his son, to Big Bear California on a week end hiking trip.
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Apache Son
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 6,490.
Language:
English.
Published: March 11, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
(4.00 from 1 review)
A man has killed the only father Chaps has ever had. Fate takes him back to his Apache people, and there he prepares to go after the man who hired the killer.
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Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea
by Darrel Bird
Series: Between Havana and The Deep Blue Sea, Book 2.
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 6,540.
Language:
English.
Published: March 9, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Sea adventures
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
The is a sequel to Between Havana and The Deep Blues Sea. Jim Grady is off on another adventure, as he is hired to rescue a girl a girl that has been kidnapped off her fathers yacht.
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Manhattan Mission
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 9,720.
Language:
English.
Published: February 26, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Inspirational, Fiction » Christian » Short stories
(5.00 from 1 review)
Preacher was a drug runner who liked to pull the teeth of anyone who crossed him, but God has other plans for him, and he learns of a homeless mission who is about to lose their building. His life takes on meaning as he learns to trust in God.
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Shards
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 15,200.
Language:
English.
Published: January 31, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » General, Fiction » Adventure » Action
(4.50 from 6 reviews)
Craig Martin travels a dangerous land that demands survival of the fittest. He meets Lou Benton who is a tough woman, and together they set out to go west, hoping for a better life. He knows of a valley on the Colorado river if they can reach it, but that is thirteen hundred miles away into the unknown.
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One Drop In Time
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 9,750.
Language:
English.
Published: January 5, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
(1.00 from 1 review)
A genius savant heads out to Las Vegas only to get lost in the Nevada desert. He finds a space ship, and travels into space at well above the speed of light. When he returns things are not as he left them.
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The Greenbrier Resort
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 12,480.
Language:
English.
Published: August 1, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
(5.00 from 1 review)
The year is 2027 and the government has a place for Christian fundamentalists.
The government says that Christian fundamentalists are mentally ill people, and must be helped. The week end is over, the family has attended an underground church home. The father warns the family to put their Bibles away in the nook under the stairs.
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Eternities Embers
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 18,880.
Language:
English.
Published: June 20, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
A family sets out to cross the mountains in hopes of finding a place to survive after an apocalypse destroys the nation.
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The Scrimshaw Man
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 8,280.
Language:
English.
Published: March 27, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Crime
Paul Jean Cramer, abused and neglected, has never known a day of happiness. A demon latches itself onto him as he leaves home, and hits the open road. Other human predators go after him, and his tortured mind does what it knows to do, and he strikes back before any more abuse can take place.
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Wolf Lake
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 15,670.
Language:
English.
Published: December 10, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Short stories
Tessa Parker is a plucky woman who is thrust into the cold Alaskan wilderness with a cold and bitter man. All she wants is to get back home to her husband and her life with the man she married.
Her health fails her and delays her return home, and when she does return she finds another woman has taken her place.
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Solar Cycle 24
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 15,580.
Language:
English.
Published: October 15, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
(3.00 from 1 review)
An Amateur radio operator discovers a signal coming from space where it ought not to be.
He and his wife are carried off to a government facility; their every day life turned upside down.
Soon they realize that they must get out at all costs as they learn more about Solar Cycle 24.
Restitution Island
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 6,820.
Language:
English.
Published: October 25, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Short stories
Two people learn how to love as they are thrown together by fate on an Island in the South Pacific.
Resentments take it's toll on their relationship when their boss decides to take action, but the plan backfires when his privately own Leer jet crashes in the sea.
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The Family
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 18,430.
Language:
English.
Published: September 16, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
(5.00 from 1 review)
The American economy has gone belly up and The Family now travels through a strange land. A father and son set out from Denver Colorado bound for the upper reaches of Western Washington State.
In a land that yields little food the small band is doing their best to survive in the new wild west.
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Riding The Whirlwind
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 6,660.
Language:
English.
Published: June 8, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Religious
A man who suffers from depression moves his family to Mist Oregon.As he fights depression and
Desperate for work he finds a job in the timber industry.Life is not yet through dealing him blows as he tries to measure up to his new job.
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The Last Trip
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 4,870.
Language:
English.
Published: June 5, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Religious
A fishing boat captain finds what is important in life when his boat sinks. He had promised his wife he would stop fishing when the fishing ran out, but the El Nino brought the tuna close to shore and he rigs out for one last trip.
The waters of the cold Pacific hold him in a death grip as the coast guard searches for him.
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Preparation Day
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 7,630.
Language:
English.
Published: June 4, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Religious
An Adventist teen who finds herself pregnant. She is soon faces the threat of an imposed abortion which she does not believe in, and which she swears will not take place, darkness envelopes her until she finds an unexpected friend in her aging next door neighbor. She flees to a home for girls and finds her life work as she encounters a beaten and bruised teen who is to be her roommate.
The Pride of Jesse
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 4,020.
Language:
English.
Published: June 4, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Religious
A proud young man thinks he has the world by the tail until he is paralyzed from the waist down from a car crash on the San Diego freeway. His plans for the future he thought he had are turned up-side down, he resorts to alcohol to feed his bitter soul and finds an unexpected friend in a co-worker who struggles to pull him out of his darkest days.
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Dawg!
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 4,700.
Language:
English.
Published: June 4, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Inspirational
(5.00 from 1 review)
A boy and his dog named Dawg, accompanies his father to work in the woods, disaster strikes hard and fast as a mishap leaves them both injured in a dark animal filled forest.
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Kicking Against The Goads
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 10,330.
Language:
English.
Published: June 2, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Inspirational
A down and out man takes his dog Boomer and goes on a road trip to Vegas to find work. Things go worse for him as he finds himself in an automobile accident on the blinding snow covered roads of Utah, the future for he and his family looks bleak as he lays injured in a hospital room of a nearby small town.
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Old Dogs Children And Gil Bateman
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 4,290.
Language:
English.
Published: June 1, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Inspirational
(4.00 from 1 review)
Two Children and their yellow Labrador ‘Scoot’ take up with an old farmer by the name of Gil Bateman who lives just down the road, When they go missing the sheriff suspects the farmer of taking them, but Gil Bateman has his own ideas as they frantically search for the two missing children.
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Forsaking All Others
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 6,870.
Language:
English.
Published: May 31, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Short stories
A woman joins a cult and almost loses her husband over it as she learns what this marriage vow means. She is desperate and fearful as she attempts to reclaim her marriage to the man that she loves.
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Rider On The Storm
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 5,010.
Language:
English.
Published: May 30, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Religious
A teen goes wild when his father is killed in a bar room brawl, he causes the death of the man responsible, then takes the life of another men, he embraces the biker gang until he attempts to steal the bike of an immoveable Vietnam vet.
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Strange Associations
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 6,200.
Language:
English.
Published: May 30, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Short stories
A business executive is transferred from his New York office to a southern town in Georgia, his life and his marriage are off track when he has breakfast with a prostitute who is destined to change his life.
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Till Death Do Us Part
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 7,900.
Language:
English.
Published: May 30, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure
A comfortably married man and woman who find themselves in a plane crash on the dry animal filled plains of Tanzania.
The plane goes off course because of an inaccurate compass, and their lives go off course as they come upon the most powerful creature they ever encountered, human nature, and unexpected love between a man and a woman.
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The Biscuit Run
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 9,580.
Language:
English.
Published: May 30, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Inspirational
(4.00 from 1 review)
15 year old Jacob Banning’s world suddenly crumbles as he is ruthlessly taken by cruel men to fight in the civil war. He ends up killing a boy about his own age, and flees the scene of blood, and smoke. He tries to get back home, but is only taken deeper into the south to fight in a battle over a hundred yard piece of ground.
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God Are You Up There?
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 7,610.
Language:
English.
Published: May 30, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Inspirational
(4.00 from 1 review)
His god is the bottle, until he meets the God of the Bible. His chases this God of the Bible until he finds the true meaning of peace.
Between Havana and The Deep Blue Sea
by Darrel Bird
Series: Between Havana and The Deep Blue Sea, Book 1.
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 11,510.
Language:
English.
Published: May 30, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Sea adventures, Fiction » Adventure » Action
A sailor sails to Cuba to rescue his missionary brother from a Cuban Prison, and he will stop at nothing to get it done, a storm at sea threatens the mission as he battles the elements and cruel men to return his God fearing brother back to his wife and home in St. Petersburg.
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Heart Of A Lawman
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 10,250.
Language:
English.
Published: May 29, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
(5.00 from 1 review)
Young John Shay leaves his home in Kentucky to go west. He runs into trouble as he makes the journey. He finds his calling as he observes the injustice of a lawless land, he joins with an old sheriff in Wyoming territory to bring murderers to justice six gun style.
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Fields Of Grain
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 4,690.
Language:
English.
Published: May 29, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » General
A man gets high on crack and is instrumental in the cold blooded murder of old couple, he gets the death sentence, but even though he walks down the halls of death row, he has found life in an old and worn Bible, and unexpected gift from an old sick minister who himself is soon to walk toward death.
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Gone South
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 7,210.
Language:
English.
Published: May 29, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action, Fiction » Inspirational
This novella is about a man is sent to Louisiana to teach in a small backwoods black community. He locks horns with the devils brigade in the form of the Klu Klux Clan, his school perish boss and an old voodoo woman with eyes black as midnight.
The Year Of Our Discontent
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 3,480.
Language:
English.
Published: May 28, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure, Fiction » Coming of age
Two children run away from home because they feel they have been mistreated, they soon encounter bad men as they make camp in the cane breaks of the River bottom land, fear and uncertainty clamps it's cold hand on their hearts as they witness two murderous thieves plan to rob the bank of a nearby community.
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The Day Time Ran Out
by Darrel Bird
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 32,270.
Language:
English.
Published: May 28, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
There was always time, until there wasn't! A Hollywood couple find themselves living in a world filled with the dead. The society they have known quickly breaks down as plague sweeps the land. They bind together with a few other survivors in an attempt to survive the last days on earth.
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Crystal Creek - An Adventure Story
on Jan. 16, 2014
Lacks basic punctuation, poorly edited, no plot.