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Miracles and Murder: and Other True Stories
Colorful illustrations accompany each chapter in Miracles and Murder: and Other True Stories. Humorous, spiritually cynical and filled with odd occurences, this collection is engagingly familiar to all who have questioned the absurdity of life. Told in the tradition of American folklore: That's Eel Backwards, My Avenging Angel, What about the Butterflies? and My First Murder, are just a few of the many enjoyable stories.
8.5"x8.5" 155 pages 35 color illustrations

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Whoa Weeee What a ride! Thank you TOM! Your book was a joy to read and your artwork is fantastic! Love your sensitivity and your consistent voice. It was a sad day when I finished reading your book. Kinda of like saying goodbye to a fun evening of feasting with friends.
Emily Bording

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"Heresy" - Jesus, The Teenage Years
Three separate stories intersect and parallel each other over a period of 2,000 years. An artist creates a painting titled Jesus, The Teenage Years, and upsets the leader of a group of radical evangelicals. He sends out a believer to destroy or deface the art, but the effort results in even more publicity and fame for the artist. An assassination is planned but things get even weirder and more miracluous for the assassin.
A nineteen year-old Jesus finds himself working as a building contractor and fighting the Roman occupation. While working on remodeling a large estate, he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Mary. They travel to Bethlehem to discover the truth behind the massacre of the innocents and hopefully, to heal his wounded soul
A young soldier named Tim is fighting his own battles in Iraq. Disillusioned with the pointless invasion and its tragic consequences. After a tragic event involving the death of innoncent civilians, Tim lays down his weapon.
6"x9" 261 pages
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The Foot Soldier
In 1967, The Summer of Love invades San Francisco, Paul, a Vietnam War veteran, and his draft-dodging friend David, sour on the hippie party atmosphere and strike out to end the war by counseling young men to fight the draft. They end up in the once isolated Texas village of Beeville, now overwhelmed by the nearby Naval airbase which has swollen to over five thousand men training pilots for the war. The young airmen have brought with them psychedelic music, liberal behavior, and drug use.
At Alamo-Cola, the local soft drink bottling plant, tensions run high as Tejano workers are fed up with being paid half the wages as the white workers, despite millions in revenue from the base being pumped into the local economy. A worker for Alamo-Cola, befriends David and introduces him to “Mexican Town.” Work, poverty and racism are issues the locals fight every day, and David offers to help in their struggle at Alamo-Cola by forming a union. When the union’s demands are rejected, a boycott is called.
On a trip to the Rio Grande Valley for a weekend of peyote eating, David meets his guardian angel, Juan Cortina. Paul travels to the underworldon his trip and finds forgiveness, and is reborn from the earth itself.
Combatting the boycott, a Texas Ranger and an ex-Mississippi Sheriff, abduct David, violently subdue him and take him to a remote section of a local ranch where they plan on lynching him next to a farmworker organizer thye killed months earlier. David escapes when his peyote guardian angel wakes him up and orders him to flee into the woods. “Mescalito is riding to help you–flee!” As David flees, the hanged man, woken from death by Mescalito, attacks the Texas Ranger.
6"x9" 291 pages
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