This great story is written by Lisa Smith-Bryant who paints a colorful picture of a teen age girl, Denise. Shortly after she dedicates her life to Christ, she leaves the safety of the Sanctuary into the arms of the love of her life. This relationship involves her boyfriend, a dope dealer and a great lover. Clown In The Prayer Closet takes its reader on a mental journey of life, puppy love, sex, drugs, and teen pregnancy.

People on the fishing piers in the Carolinas do see the beauty of the sun when it rises before some others do. Also by Josh Randal

An inspirational memoir short-story collection of controversial psychological, spiritual, philosophical, and sociological origins. Tom’s ten-year-old grandson blows his mind when he tells Tom that he saw his mother sitting in the closet after she died and told him, “Everything is going to be alright.” It inspires Tom to change his life. Tom emerges from drug rehab a new man, taking self-revelation and being reborn to new heights as he embarks on a spiritual adventure, journey quest in psyche back to his youth in the voice of a ten-year-old child in search of the truth of how he made such a mess of his mind as he rewrites his past trauma and lows into highs because he was still an angel in God’s eyes. Young Tom starts life as a fatherless child of a broken home—neglected with no role models or discipline. His curious nature for adventure in a world with no fences finds him running wild in the streets of south St. Louis and two years behind from failing in school. One step ahead of the social workers, he must figure out how to fit into a world that’s as broken as he is—religious fanatics, child molesters, poverty, racial hate, girls, bullies, and social injustice are conflicts he tries to make sense of, but all he can get is, “That’s just the way it is.” Feeling insecure and inadequate with low self-esteem, he’s falling fast as he searches for truth and facts to fix what is broken like new to rise up and account before he falls through the cracks.

Through the eyes of a despairing artist, Hans Schneir, who recreates in his pantomimes incidents in people's lives with honesty and compassion, Boll draws a revealing portrait of German society under Hitler and in the postwar years.

A young single mother in search of purpose and escaping her psychotic ex decides to pack up and move to a different state. After a couple of years pass by, she discovers that things are actually worse than before. Along this journey, she discovers this is her detour, and she then makes every effort to get back on the right path in God's will for her life. Through prayer and faith, God delivers the young mother, and she never looks back, except to give God praise and glory.

The One Who's Not with Us is a fictional novel that tells the love story of a teenage couple. It was 1965. The Vietnam War was in full swing. Enola and Shane dated for a couple of months before he received his orders for Vietnam. They were deeply in love. The couple spent Shane's last night in town together. They let their passion for one another get out of control. By the pond under the stars and a full moon, they came together for the first time. That one time connected them forever. The couple wrote to one another. When Enola found herself pregnant, she had nowhere to turn. Her parents followed a strict religion, and Enola knew they would not accept her pregnancy. In 1965, an unwed mother was looked upon with disdain by most of society. She thought about telling Shane but decided against it. He was in a war zone, and she felt that he was dealing with enough stress without her adding any more concerns to his life. After all, the couple made no commitments or promises to one another before Shane left. Enola's son was adopted to a good couple in a loving home. She closed her heart to love and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a fresh start in life. Enola severed all ties with her family and quit writing to Shane. She closed the door to her past and moved forward in life. Ten years later, Enola is serving her second enlistment as an army nurse. She thought she had carefully buried her past until she came face-to-face with Shane. Enola confessed the past to Shane. The story tells how the couple deals with the guilt, regret, emptiness, and loss. They learn to trust in God's plan for their lives and accept his many blessings as they are granted.

An allegory against the pompous, legalistic Christian. A parable against the Mega Church. Two races of people: the Fausts and the Christians. One is black-clad, cursed to wear the color that matches their hearts. The other are white-wearers, clothed in God's Glorious White. Christland, where every street, avenue, home, and business are as white as snow. Faustland, where everything is as ebony as night. Two half-breeds: one with Christian blood, though clearly a black-clad Faust. The other a Christian, with Faust-blood running through her veins. Together, they defy all which they'd been taught to believe...

The first-ever anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression