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In Book 1, Jack conspires with friend Jeremy to undermine their racist, secessionist teacher's efforts to poison his students' minds with his benefits-of-slavery lectures. Will the students buy into it? Not if Jack has any say. The book is dedicated to my brother and to my old friend, Jack, the latter who, at 19, was killed speeding in his too-fast car, alone, in 1971. We met when I was a first grader at a Groton, Massachusetts parochial school. Jack was in second grade, I was in the first grade. One day Jack began teasing on the bus ride home so we got off at his bus stop to fight. I was little - he much bigger. He pinned me to the ground, forced me to quit. That kicked off our friendship that lasted years. Jack was a pitcher on the high school baseball team. He was so fast - somewhat wild. I was afraid to bat against him. He tried out for a professional farm team but didn't make it. He worked in the local factory and had no real career designs other than in sports which were the center of his life. Not long after his failed attempt(s) at major league baseball, he smashed into a tree at high speed on a quiet road early one morning. Jack had a 'hero complex' - needing to be the center of attention. He excelled at sports but wasn't interested in academics. He bet everything on his sports abilities that wowed neighborhood friends growing up. This story also is dedicated to both Jack and my brother, Paul, a friend of Jack's. Paul passed in January, 2016. I finally started Jack's story in 2000 when I began teaching in New York City. It dawned on me one day to transport Jack as a composite character - i.e., a character who has qualities and characteristics that Jack had but who also possessed ones he didn't have - into 1860's America. In the book, Jack becomes the hero - a status that mostly evaded him in real life. I think he would have been proud of the story. Many events are entirely fictional - some are not. All characters are fictional or partially so.

Jack: Book 2 is a rollicking high-seas adventure. Schoolmaster Jerome Whittemore - a former 'preacher' on slave ships - quits teaching after a devastating classroom humiliation at the hands of Jack and Jeremy, two fun-loving, non-conforming students. Whittemore quits teaching and returns to his former ship - the Helena - on what may be a suicide mission. Ignorant of Whittemore's plan to incite rebellion with his newfound abolitionist teachings - Jack and Jeremy sign to the same ship. Jack and his teacher had hated one another but their antagonistic relationship changes after Jack is finally triumphant in book one. Jack decides to follow him to sea while recruiting his reluctant best friend, Jeremy, who invariably is skeptical of Jack's adventure plans. Both develop a new respect for Whittemore and sign for the same sea voyage - unaware that the Helena is a 'devil slave ship'. Whittemore is appalled to see them on deck that first night after the ship is beyond the northern-flowing Gulf Stream. The self-proclaimed 'preacher of the deep' for 'the Church of the Holy Waters', Whittemore intends to incite rebellion in his first sermon since glorifying the southern white plantation slavery system on the same ship three years past. Jeremy and Jack beg him to scuttle his 'crazy' plan but to no avail. Book 2 opens with master's diatribe against the slave trade and Captain Pendleton and his enablers - the crew of the Helena. Intrigue, espionage, conspiracies, mutiny and hurricane plague the ship's voyage during its several-month cruise through the Caribbean Sea to Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola and elsewhere. In Jamaica, Jack and Jeremy meet two free blacks - America and Mauricia - and together they conspire to free 110 African slaves who will board the Helena in Cuba. Jack, Book 2, was published in May, 2016. Please write a brief review. See the last page where you will find instructions. Thanks. - G. L. Dorion.

Barbary and Nakisha are bound across time by a poppet. They must reach across time to save one another before the ghosts of the past destroy them both.

Abby is totally normal, except for the fact that her father is one of the best actors in hollywood. Our story starts after she and her boyfriend Hayden break-up, she is heart broken. But after a video of her (naked) asking Hayden why he doesn't love her anymore, gets out, she is shot to stardom. She is trying to deal with the pain of breaking up with Hayden, and being famous, along with a few twists along the way, at the age of 17,

Beth Kozera promised her best friend, Carrie Hansen, that she would stay and manage Stratton House in Carrie's absence. How she regrets that promise! Because Beth has no idea how to manage an event venue. Since when did brides become so demanding and grooms so lecherous? Plus, Beth can't boil water, let alone supervise a sit-down dinner for 200 guests every weekend. Thank goodness for Joshua. Or, at least, she thinks. But when Beth offers his mom a job managing the kitchen, Josh shows his patriarchal colors. So much for tall, dark and haughty. Now, her former fiance, Charles Mercer IV, is pressuring Beth to let him back into her life. Apparently the pregnant girlfriend Charlie left Beth for wasn't carrying his baby, and Charlie is convinced if he can restart a romance with Beth, he can somehow mend his life. All Beth wants to do is keep her promise to Carrie. But can every promise be kept?

After Hillary goes missing, Sam, Hunter,Dave and Charles go on a hunt to find her. will they read to see!

This was a short story that I wrote in my Fiction Writing class this past semester. I plan on revisiting this story and expanding on it in November for NaNoWriMo. Enjoy!

"A rollicking adventure!" The trilogy is now complete. I plan to publish Jack: Book 3, by August 1, 2017 as well as a separate volume with all three parts. Until then enjoy Books 1-3 here on Wattpad. I completed the trilogy on May 30, 2017. The cover (left) is a possible cover for Jack 3. Book 3 opens with Jack and his companions in control of the slave ship, The Helena, renamed The Midnight Raider, having tricked the pirates and slave traders that were chasing them after they stole the ship. Jack has ordered the Helena's captain - kidnapped in Cuba - imprisoned below deck. Despite his friend Jeremy's reluctance to go along with him, Jack invites the captain to help them and the 110 now-freed slaves to sail back to Senegal and Guinea in West Africa to return the ex-slaves home. Captain Pendleton agrees. But will this slave trader - whose dream is to buy the Helena to make enormous profits blockade-running when the American Civil War begins - keep his word? Jack believes he can continue to outsmart the captain. He also believes the captain wants to do the 'right thing'. It's a combination of trust and mistrust but Pendleton may be the only person aboard who has the longtime experience crucial to crossing the middle Atlantic Ocean to Africa. Jack and Jeremy have another problem: Two young Jamaican women are aboard ship and are scheming to make sure that they stay together with Jack and Jeremy who plan on leaving them back at their homes after returning from the African mainland.

It is late 1860. Abraham Ernest Levitan, a secluded farmer, needs help tending to the extensive land he owns. Agatha Eve Irvine, an otiose young girl is sent to find a job as a cure for her discourteous ways. She arrives at the Lonehaven Ranch when the only available job flies into her face while walking down a street in Yellowville, Kentucky. The girl takes on this labor with no other option, not knowing what to expect and with little eagerness to get her hands dirty by working the ways of the country. What she certainly does not expect is for the landowner to be a black man. //Story idea under construction. Everything is subject to change. Idea: May 8 2022. Do not copy! Disclaimers/Warnings: Age gap romance (20 years) Offensive language & slurs Physical violence & blood Mentions of SA (The rest is yet to be rated) !If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in it's original, safe, form, please go to my Wattpad profile (brooklinebaby). Thank you.

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A snippet from a short story in the works.. Set in the Louisiana Delta of the late 1870s This is a story of Love and American Redemption

A short Lady antebellum story of Hillary admitting her love for Charles, Will their love find a way? Currently writing the sequel. <3

In the heart of a nation torn apart by conflict, "Hearts of Iron" follows the passionate and dangerous romance between Virginia Blake, a spirited Southern belle, and Ethan Carter, a principled Union soldier. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865, their love defies the stark boundaries of a country at war with itself. Virginia, raised in the genteel world of Southern aristocracy, finds her heart drawn to Ethan, a Union soldier whose convictions and compassion challenge everything she has been taught to believe. Their clandestine relationship blossoms in stolen moments and secret meetings, each encounter fraught with the risk of discovery and potential betrayal. As battles rage and families are torn apart, Virginia and Ethan must navigate the treacherous landscape of their forbidden love, balancing personal passion with the brutal realities of a nation in conflict. Torn between loyalty to their families, their respective sides of the war, and their deep, transformative love for each other, Virginia and Ethan's story is a testament to the power of connection in the most divisive of times. Their romance becomes a symbol of hope and reconciliation in a world consumed by hatred and division.

this is a poem about the protagonist of Kindred, by Octavia Butler, and female slaves in general.

Did He know he would find her there in the garden?