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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 that happen when one least expects, this collection of short stories is engagingly familiar to all who have questioned, wondered, and finally concluded that life is weird. 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 the art, but the effort results in even more publicity and fame for the artist. After that failure an assassination is planned, but a life changing miracle ends the assassin's quest and her relationship with the radical pastor.
At the same time, the nineteen year-old Jesus finds himself working as a building contractor and fighting the Roman occupation. While remodeling a large estate, he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Mary. They travel to Bethlehem to escape Roman soldiers looking for Jesus, and discover the truth behind the massacre of the innocents and in the process, healing Jesus' broken heart
Intersecting realities collide when a young soldier named Tim is fighting his own battles in Iraq, disillusioned with the pointless invasion and its tragic consequences. He lays down his weapon after a horrific event involving the death of innoncent civilians but is recalled to active duty after a kidnapping of NATO doctors. While traveling to the village, Tim meets Jesus and Mary escaping the violence on a remote mountain road as they travel to Bethlehem.
6"x9" 261 pages
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“This story will change they way people think about Jesus."
Mary Geason, Film Producer

The Foot Soldier
In 1967, The Summer of Love, Mississippi Burning, and the Vietnam War all meet in a small Town in Texas.
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, while Paul travels to the underworld on his trip and finds forgiveness, and is reborn from the earth itself.
Combating the boycott, a Texas Ranger and an ex-Mississippi Sheriff, abduct David andviolently subdue him before taking him to a remote section of a ranch where they plan on lynching him next to a farmworker they had killed months earlier. David escapes when his peyote guardian angel wakes him and orders him to flee into the woods. “Mescalito is riding to help you–flee!” As David flees, the hanged man, awoken from death by Mescalito, attacks the Texas Ranger.
6"x9" 291 pages
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“I couldn't put this book down. It's such accurate depiction of an amazing period of American history. It's funny, full of love and compassion, it's terrifying, and it's an incredible read for anyone whether you were born at that time or not."
Terese Kristensen