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The Sisterhood Diaries
Misty, Molly and Sally grew up together in Anaheim, CA. Misty and Molly moved to Nashville, NC. Sally stayed behind but they all get back together at Blackbeard's Museum in Beaufort after learning what life's all about. Misty became a dentist with a rural practice. She worked her way through dental school spending weekends flat on her back, delivering compensated sexual favors to the movers and shakers of Raleigh. Molly earned her Master's Degree in Cultural Anthropology and is gainfully employed as a glorified accountant for a chicken packing plant. She hates her job largely because she goes home nightly smelling of wet chicken feathers. She's always wanted to be a model. Sally attended U C Irving but dropped out when she became pregnant with Mac's child. Mac did the honorable thing and married Sally, much to the dismay of his wealthy parents in Boston. These are their stories.
The Rapture comes to Lucas Ridge
Michael Archer is a Social Worker from Murphy, NC. His boss recruits him for a moonlight stint interviewing the hapless denizens of a nearby cluster of tumbledown shacks at the request of a pharmaceutical company in Atlanta. It seems the firm has found a cure for Alzheimer's and the ingredients they need to manufacture the drug are buried deep beneath Lucas Ridge. The job seems straight-forward at first but when a co-worker ends up dead in a mosquito-infested swamp, Michael begins to wonder whose calloused hands are tugging on his personal puppet strings.
Giants
Russ Hatler's tenth novel, Giants, is set in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. It tells the story of a brave, resilient people reeling from the wrath of Mother Nature while struggling to survive the machinations of political chicanery. It's also the tale of a young man's treacherous journey from adolescent angst to responsible adulthood. The novel follows the progress of Brandon Stevenson, eponymous protagonist of The Hedonist, from North Carolina to Utuado, a small town in the mountainous interior of the Enchanted Island. Interwoven with the fictional narrative are several historical chapters describing the rape of Puerto Rico by Christopher Columbus and his merry band of Spanish Invaders in 1493 and proceeding all the way up to the rape of Puerto Rico by Vulture Capitalists in the present day. Philosophy, politics, recreational pharmaceuticals and ecological mischief also take their lumps. The humor in the book is dark and merciless.
Hood River Anthology
Hood River Anthology is a hybrid novel, consisting of historical chapters and short stories. The first several chapters tell the story of a fictitious German family of tenuous nobility who escape from East Germany during the Soviet occupation, dodging Stasi agents and border guards, and eventually settle in Hood River, OR, where they build a Bed and Breakfast modeled after King Ludwig's Schloss Linderhof castle. The succeeding chapters are short stories about the lives of lodgers who stay at the Neue Schloss Linderhof. In many respects the compendium mirrors the tradition of "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson or "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters.
Casino Hopping Through the Lower 48
A fractured twist on The Pilgrim's Progress, the book describes the first-person narrator's six-thousand-mile automotive odyssey that covers two weeks and twelve casinos. It is filled with wit, philosophy and homespun advice regarding the eternal battle that pits domestic harmony against the pursuit of liberty. Although casino gaming plays a large role in the tale the narrator also finds himself thrust into the ageless game of sexual hide-and-go-seek when he reaches out to help a gorgeous goddess and comes up with a handful of happy endings.
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is a light-hearted novel about Global Warming, worldwide overpopulation and the inexorable consequences of outlandish wealth inequality. An underground cave is discovered in The Bob Marshall Wilderness area during the Cold War. A bunch of billionaires set out to create the most luxurious bomb shelter ever built, far from the madding crowd and miles away from prying eyes. Their vision is not shared by the bulk of their peers who prefer to fritter away their wealth on fast cars and loose living. During the ensuing fifty years the Cold War dies a natural death, to be replaced by the existential threat of Climate Change. The opulent hole in the ground morphs into a Sanctuary for rich folks who wish to preserve their personal prosperity and at the same time to circumvent the demise of the species. When a category 5 hurricane deluges Miami Beach even the most devoted climate deniers have a come to Jesus moment.
South of Even
In the world of casino gaming, larcenous souls tip the scales of fortune in their favor. Casinos don't stop players from cashing in if the win is honest. But if the rules in the game are bent, casinos counter the results. James "Jimmie Quick" Silver knows life on both sides of the fence. He was a dealer, a player, a winner, a loser and a fugitive run to earth. Now he's a high-tech-gadget toting servant for the house. He finds folks who scam the casino. They cheat or steal; they skip town on a bloated marker. But they leave clues for Jimmie and Dolly to find. When she isn't helping track down scum, Dolly dances in a North Las Vegas dive. Jimmie tracks the casino's current trio of bent blackjack players from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. When the suspects are traced to Puerto Rico, Jimmie and Dolly catch a plane to the Caribbean for a quick trip through the islands, ending up in Santo Domingo for the breathtaking finale.
Campbell
James Campbell (1791-1879) was born in Washington Co., Tennessee, the son of James Campbell and Jane Sample. On March 20, 1813 he married Sophia Downing (1793-1866) in Barren Co., Kentucky. She was born in Frederick Co., Maryland. James and Sophia had nine children, all born in Kentucky. The youngest daughter, Melvina, was about a year old in 1837 when the family migrated to central Missouri. Both are buried in the Campbell Burying Ground south of Russellville, Missouri. Descendants live in Missouri, Kansas and elsewhere.
