On the worst night of his life, a surgeon must to make the most difficult cut of his life—or die trying! You won't believe the turn this story takes. ~ ~ ~ Constant Reader: This is one of those stories that pretty much wrote itself. The idea came to me in my exhaustion one night. It sat there, in my brain, worming its way around like a parasite of some sort until I had to write it down after a few weeks. I'm glad I did. I think it's pretty good and I'm betting you'll think so too. Fair warning though, it's intense. Jesus Mother Mary intense. ~ ~ ~ And if you like stories of ordinary folks caught in the maelstrom of extraordinary circumstances—intense fiction—pick up my other reads as well. ~ ~ ~ One more thing. Good, bad, or indifferent, reviews are the coin of the writer's realm—and always appreciated.

What happens when a surgeon becomes obsessed with death? Dr. Isaac Weed had it all: a loving wife and young daughter, a thriving surgical practice, and an extraordinary gift for healing. But when his daughter dies suddenly he cannot let go. Two years later, struggling to heal and just a shell of the man he once was, his gift has become a burden. And then he discovers a door to the afterlife—a door never meant to be opened. Sometimes, healing can go too far… ~ ~ ~ One more thing. Good, bad, or indifferent, reviews are the coin of the writer's realm—and always appreciated.

What if you were driving a desolate highway in a hundred year storm and the only other car on the road was...WRONG? A horrific tale of life on the road with an itinerant scalpel salesman. Well calculated to keep you in suspense! ~ ~ ~ One more thing. Good, bad, or indifferent, reviews are the coin of the writer's realm—and always appreciated.

Cooper loved to play the game. If you’ll sit a spell on the bleacher here alongside me, I’ll tell you about it. Not ‘cause he’s my son either, but because it’s worth hearing. First though, I have to tell you about opening day, about how he quit sucking his thumb—and about the bottom of the fifth. ~ ~ ~ A touching story of a little boy and the miracles surrounding him on opening day of the Little League baseball season. A little piece of Americana, an inspirational story of what it means to live life to its fullest. ~ ~ ~ One more thing. Good, bad, or indifferent, reviews are the coin of the writer's realm—and always appreciated.

This is the story of a world laid bare, of an insane time. It is July, 1863. In the heat of summer the land is a killing ground over which two armies have recently spilled blood. The Civil War is both two years done and has two years remaining; long enough on both accounts for good men to know what has been, and what is coming. Into this shattered humanity comes a battlefield hospital and its disparate souls, including Dr. Josiah Boyd, a Union surgeon whose sanity falls far short of his skill with a knife. † † † In the wreckage of one of the greatest battles ever fought comes the story of a strange and blighted land, where the price of a man’s life is less than the shoes on his feet. It is a land strewn with thousands of broken men, where the dead animals lay thick as the meadow grass, the water is poison, and the hospitals are the last place a wounded man can rest.

In this stunning period piece set in the Fall of 1951, a brain surgeon gives all he's got to save the little boy on his operating table. An extraordinary surgical thriller from the mind of Edison McDaniels, himself a surgeon, who is well known for his intense & heart-breaking stories of ordinary folks caught in the maelstrom. ††† The complete story appeared in the inaugural issue of THE SUMMERSET REVIEW, a literary journal released quarterly on the 15th of March, June, September, and December on the Internet, and periodically in print form. Founded in 2002, the journal is exclusively devoted to the review and publication of unsolicited fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. ††† Click the link to read the complete story for FREE.

The flies. The blood. The wounds. The soldiers. The surgeons. The undertakers. The insanity. ††† The greatest battle ever fought on American soil is in full tilt. Southern Pennsylvania has become one great grinding stone and thousands of men are dead or dying in its wake. In this tilted landscape, reputations are made, careers are ruined, and men are driven to the brink in the wake of two armies intent on killing one another. What happens next amid the carnage and human flotsam will be unholy, unnerving, and all but unbearable, with only one thing certain: nobody will escape unscathed. ††† Introducing an audacious historical novel told from the viewpoint of the surgeons struggling amid the chaos and carnage of a battlefield hospital at Gettysburg in 1863. ††† Not One Among Them Whole, a novel, is vivid in its prose, graphic in its detail, and intense in its telling. A steep descent into the madness of surgery in a time before germ theory and antisepsis, when every wound was potentially lethal and every operation a minor miracle. ††† A must read for fans of historical fiction, medical or surgical fiction, and Civil War fiction. Powerfully written.

In THE MATRIARCH OF RUINS, a widow struggles to keep her family together amid the carnage of the Battle of Gettysburg. This is a story of ordinary folks caught in the maelstrom of an extraordinary time. ††† It is 1863 and the war has come home to the Gamble farm in Southern Pennsylvania. With her husband buried under the willow tree in the back yard, and only four months in the ground, the widow Purdy Gamble must cope with losing him all over again when a rebel surgeon conscripts her farm—and Purdy’s growing respect despite herself. Hannah Gamble Griel, Purdy’s daughter, disappears into the chaos of war to chase her own ghosts, both imaginary and real. And then there are the twins Loli and Coal, just fourteen. One, struck dumb by a mule kick at age five, will find a disturbing peace amid the flames of war. The other will twice save a man’s life, unburying a horrid family secret in the process—a secret at once as alive as warm flesh and as dead as cold bones mouldering under the earth. †††  THE MATRIARCH OF RUINS is a haunting story of lost love, moral dilemmas, and psychological traumas amid the ruins of war, by the author of NOT ONE AMONG THEM WHOLE, which told the story of the surgeons at Gettysburg. This is a vivid, suspenseful tale, told with heart-breaking empathy and stunning detail.