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This story is so short, to tell anything about it would be to give away the ending....

This story is for all those who have ever wanted to see President Obama in person but couldn't. It tells what it was actually like to be there among the 50,000 or so other people that day, March 7, 2015, when the first black president of the United States of America came to speak at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Is there anything you wish you could do over? This is a very short audiobook about regret, and trying to live in such a way that you never have to have that again in your life. What is the key to doing that? One question....

In only the second year after the hardware/software breakthrough that allowed human beings and dogs to communicate finally, an aging shih tzu came into the local office of Dog/Human Relations and requested to be placed in protective custody so an investigation into the murder of a dog he once knew could be undertaken....

In January of 2015 I was asked to give three readings of my work at the University of Alabama Gadsden Center. At the first one I thanked the people who came to hear me, and told them I thought they had a right to know if I could write or not, right from the beginning. So I told them I would play them the audio version of "The Killing of Train-Man Brown", and that afterward, if anyone wanted to leave, there would be no hard feelings. No one left.

What can you do, what can you say, when your child becomes discouraged? I said nothing. I wrote this letter to her instead. Tell your child you care. That she's wonderful and special. Because...she is.

This story came to me in the form of a letter and email, and I am publishing it with the author's permission, I hope, word for word, with nothing changed or left out except the author's name and the city where he lives....

In the time of Eric Garner's death, what happens when a white man "can't breath." This is one white man's story.

Will Bevis is a prolific writer of short, sometimes very controversial slice-of-life stories, articles, essays, and memoirs that make you feel you are right there, experiencing the story as it happens. His best-known story is the Top One Hundred Free for Kindle story "The Killing of Train-Man Brown." He has written more than 100 short stories, including "Then Her Wig Fell Off", "Let the Dog Drive", "Blackbird", "Supply and Demand", "Daddy's Playing Dead", and many, many others. Many are also available as audiobooks.

When officials come to disinter a noted Civil War figure, they receive an a horrible surprise. The body is still bleeding. From the Mouth. But why. The wife and the gravedigger know. But they are not talking. It is up to the doctor among the group to find out why this could be happening. And he does.

This is a collection of 3.5 Very Short But True Stories About Life in Alabama. Contains Only the "Best" Southern Ingredients.

Is there a secret that will put a "local" writer over the top? Come with the author as he goes to a Local Authors Day in search of what might help to make a "best-seller". Hint: romance! Includes some brief information about how to proceed if you want to start writing yourself.

Everybody knows that when it snows down South, nobody knows what to do - and everybody panics. Be there with this story, when only one or two inches surprises the weather forecasters and everybody else, closing schools, closing roads, and leading to a Southerners may be a lot of things - but they are not snow drivers.

Come spend Memorial Day at a small city in the Deep South. You may be surprised at what you see and hear. I was.

A little boy is lost.

What does a rich man do?

Listen to such a scenario in Money First: How to Get Rich

Have you ever been too proud to take someone back who you loved, but who wronged you. I have. This is the story of someone who reminded me of that, because of their own story. It's a train wreck of a truck driver story... Like the break up of all good love gone bad is. It made me want to go "Back to Slidell..." To that moment in time... When it would have been better to forget pride... And forgive.

Why do people like to re-enact wars? Especially the civil war. Meet Jerimiah "Jerry" Wingate, who gets himself in quite the pickle when he and other new re-enactors experience just some of what our ancestors went through. If they had it to do over again, they might just take up golf.

What kind of person would publish his father's autopsy results? I would. I am Will Bevis, the author of sometimes controversial short stories and articles such as Slow Foreplay on a Fast Bus, Who Won the War, Young Turk: A Dog Story That Will Make You Cry, and now, An Autopsy Letter: It Is What It Is. I will explain to you why I did it. You may not agree with me for having done it...but...maybe you will.

WARNING: This short story is for adults only. It contains hard language and hard situations. Meet Candy: She's fallen for some wrong men in the past... And she's become a little more self-destructive each time. Now meet Jay. Her new love. The one who is going to take her all the way to the bottom.

There are some old Geezers you just don't mess with. Meet one of them: Paul. Then - for your own safety - try to get away from him as fast as you can.