Pioneer Stories

REVOLUTIONARY is a work-in-progress novel about the Romanian Revolution, seen from the height of a 6-7-year-old child - the one place where truth shouldn't be complicated, yet life makes it so anyway. Through his eyes, the "adult world" begins to speak in whispers, doors close more often than usual, grown-ups change their faces from one hour to the next, and words like freedom, fear, and gun suddenly enter a universe that only yesterday was about sweet bread, chewing gum, and a Pioneer scarf. The story doesn't unfold in a straight line. It shifts - sometimes almost chaotically - between moments from Before the Revolution (B.R.), with its communist routine and quiet absurdity, and scenes from After the Revolution (A.R.), in a still-young democracy learning how to walk... sometimes in the dark, sometimes at a run. This isn't a history lesson. It's a childhood caught between rumors, sirens, silences, and the kind of courage you don't know you have until you're asked for it. A novel about what a Revolution looks like when you don't fully understand it - but you feel absolutely everything.

(When the most unexpected hero comes in at the right time and has some fun) (Note: I'm rushing here somewhat, so please don't mind the parts that might seem quite confusing)

It's the end of the 19th century. In Southern Ohio, farmers have taken hold of the land, and many have forgotten who it was they had to take it from. For one young girl, she has been reminded time and again of the great Shawnee Chief, High Oaks, and how his people were massacred by the white man. But before the old chief died, he cursed the land, promising that the rivers would flow with white man's blood. For this reason, they are not to go into the woods alone. Sure, there are coyotes and snakes, and an unwary child could easily fall down a ravine. But the threat of the Indians is strongest, and even though they have been long gone, the children mind their parents' warnings. But the girl sees other people in the trees. Tall, strange men, who seem to melt into the greenery beyond the fence. And when an accident at the logging company results in a man gone missing, it may be up to her to get to the bottom of it.

Finn Smith, secretly the ancient Kryptonian AR-NUL, crash-landed on Earth seventeen years ago after a distorted pioneer-mission pod veered off course. Raised by human parents who run a small tech shop in New Horizon City, he grows up awakening powers far earlier than a normal Kryptonian, becoming the city's mysterious young vigilante SOL. While juggling school, tutoring jobs, and hiding his identity, Finn battles rising crime fueled by alien tech smugglers. The Justice League becomes aware of him after he survives a gang ambush involving kryptonite-laced weapons. Concerned for his safety-and the danger he faces alone-they begin preparing to make contact. As New Horizon City becomes a hotspot for off-world activity, Finn must navigate being a high-end Kryptonian teenager trying to help people while the world (and the League) closes in around him.

Being a mail order bride is hard... dealing with the new in-laws is harder! Irene Bailey misses Missouri more than she could have imagined. The cousin she's living with treats her like a maid, and her life is unraveling fast. When she finds Dr. Theodore Harcourt's ad for a mail order bride,she thinks her problems are solved. But Dr. Harcourt isn't interested in marriage. He's interested in money. His business is failing, and his late father's estate will only go to him on one condition:He needs to be married. Desperate for a way to put his life back in order, he finds a bride the fastest and easiest way possible - through an ad. He never thought he'd get so lucky to find a woman like Irene. Smart as well as beautiful, she's everything he's dreamed of. But his aunt isn't happy. She wants the money for herself and will go to any lengths possible to get it. Money isn't everything, but will Dr. Harcourt realize that in time to save his marriage? Or will Irene and the doctor miss their one chance at true love?

The Soldier's Seed, the first book of the Southern Skyes family saga, is a novel that captures the wide range of relationships between colonial, convict, and indigenous families during the tumultuous events that defined the early penal colonies of Australia. Nicholas Thomas, a soldier in the New South Wales Corps, loathes his life in Sydney Town and through a series of events of his own making he finds himself running from his past to what could be an even worse fate. While pioneering a new settlement that encounters one problem after another, he struggles to find his true self and identify what he really wants from life . . . until he meets a woman a soldier shouldn't love. When tragedy strikes, he is forced to make choices that will affect his descendants for decades to come.

ALUMINIUM LUGS

Throughout my school year, my teacher had given our class creative writing assignments where we had to create a story that included certain elements. Specific settings, characters, and items had to be used to explain a given picture. Because of this, parts of the story can get a little weird at times. I hope you enjoy them! I will also include writing assignments from other teachers ;)

It's Carrie's birthday as the whole family is gathered around the little house to celebrate and reminisce. Caroline then tells the story of when Carrie was born. This is my story of how Carrie's birth could have possibly gone. I hope you enjoy. :)