Short Stories

With a desire to feed his family, provide for their needs and live up to the father figure he never had, this husband, father and friend is a shining example to Black entrepreneurs everywhere. (NOTE: One need not wear a suit to be a true entrepreneur.)
It is 6 a.m. in Harrisburg, Pa., and Leroy A. [...]

The self-proclaimed Internet Rock Star, Brian Fanale, is all the inspiration you will ever need to learn how to become a profitable internet entrepreneur. He has created MLM Lead System Pro as a guide map on how to do it right. His story demonstrates to you just how unquestionably any person can become successful with [...]

The date was June 11, 1966. I was fifteen years old. I am half finished with my Biology final exam. I had studied for this exam for a week – I needed to ‘ace’ it in order to keep my 4.0 GPA intact. It was not going to happen – well not that day anyway.
The [...]

Thinking positive and thinking right are two different things, thinking positive can still get you nowhere although you arrive there being mentally happier and ready to go. Positive thinking is not bad it helps us cope with the day’s events in a manner that most people would find relaxing and laid back. Thinking positive allows [...]

I want you to try something with me, close your eyes and get comfortable. relax your face muscles down to your toes, sense the bodies awareness of itself, pull yourself deep into that sense of body awareness feel the here and now, be present to your energy, your heart pumping to your breath and your [...]

“I was walking so far, so far I walked I felt as if I was crawling across the ashes of a burnt world. But it wasn’t that, it was the burning sun glaring down from the sky…”
The sky was a bright blue, there was not a cloud in the sky but abruptly a roar came [...]

Remember when I tested the cumfy mattress in our factory, um I do. Who would have thought I would have found a crocodile in the mattress ?
The chase went on forever, I thought I had lost him but he kept reappearing, it had something to do with the cumfy mattress but I never could work [...]

Mankind has always celebrated the harvest with a feast and with fellowship. A bountiful harvest meant survival and many blessings to come. Ancient civilizations have documentation that indicate celebrations were held during the harvest season each year. The Egyptians, Hebrews, Greeks, and Chinese are just a few people we know who held a festival each [...]

Sometimes it only takes a split second to transform someone’s life. A moment’s distraction, a bad decision – and a life is irrevocably changed. That nightmare scenario happened to Tom, a former Army Sergeant Major and Gulf War veteran during a simple journey one morning. Tom, a fit and active man who loved riding his [...]

The other night there was a full moon, the temperature was 55 degrees, and the fire pit was roaring. A group of us had just sat down to enjoy this fall tradition, a fireside chat. You can imagine the scene, it was pretty cool. That is until someone asked me a question. That’s when I [...]

Like any other numbskull of a man who has a zero perception of what jewelry is, I never thought that I would be able to find a unique piece of jewelry that would be fitting for the girl I was then courting. It took me around a week of searching and I had to be [...]

I never taught of anything special about mom’s jewelry. As a kid, I used to watch her get all fancied up, dressed and slowly open her jewelry box and start to tinker and mix and match her jewelry with the dress she was wearing. As a guy, I couldn’t figure out how significant a piece [...]

Over the last twenty years we have seen a huge increase in all paranormal subjects areas. Investigation groups have sprung up all over the place and reality television featuring hauntings, investigations etc., are a nightly event. While there is a lot of concern surrounding this type of ‘entertainment’, the upside is, it is opening peoples’ [...]

Until this three-month odyssey, I wasn’t much of a cat fan. It’s not that I disliked them. I just hadn’t been around cats much at all. They seemed too independent and not inclined toward unconditional love. My husband and I were newlyweds, and we had just moved into our first home, a dark-brown contemporary cedar [...]

The original idea of Santa Claus, (or Father Christmas in Britain, or Papa No?l in France, etc.) came from St. Nicholas. He was a very pious fellow, born in Lycia, Turkey, in the early 4th century. After his parents died, he totally dedicated his life to Christ and joined a Lycian seminary.
It’s been said that [...]