Posts by mwweaver
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So glad you’re here… Throughout the winter and spring, check our blog to follow our story development process and help us shape our literary landscape in selecting which stories we will publish next. A Most Excellent Pirate Adventure has hit the Amazon shelves, This book marks the launch of our new Signature Series. No one…
Read MoreThe Master Storyteller 2017-18
The Master Storyteller 2017-18 Six students from the CHESS program Master StoryTeller class of 2017-18 in Manassas, Virginia, welcome you to explore their 37 short stories. A fan-favorite sword fight. Atmospheric experiments with tone and mood. A realistic and compelling research-based story. An unexpected collaborative story planned in only 30-minutes, and written, as a group,…
Read MoreThe Master Storyteller 2017-18
The Master Storyteller 2017-18 Six students from the CHESS program Master StoryTeller class of 2017-18 in Manassas, Virginia, welcome you to explore their 37 short stories. A fan-favorite sword fight. Atmospheric experiments with tone and mood. A realistic and compelling research-based story. An unexpected collaborative story planned in only 30-minutes, and written, as a group,…
Read MoreThe Master Storyteller 2010-11
The Master Storyteller 2010-11 The Master StoryTeller class of 2010-11 from Gainesville,Virginia, welcomes you to explore their year of writing shortstory fiction. A fan-favorite sword fight. Contemporary fiction. A 100-wordcontest. Cautionary tales about making deals with the devil.Alien worlds and alternative perspectives.It’s all right here. It’s all student work. It’s all fun.Enjoy!
Read MoreNewsboy Empire
Newsboy Empire Orphaned and living hand to mouth, Jimmy Small is one of hundreds of boys working Newspaper Row near the dangerous Five Points intersection, a nexus for gambling, alcohol and brawls in the summer of 1907 New York City.At night, Jimmy dreams of owning his own newsstand. Sleeping in a garbage-littered alley, he awakens…
Read MoreTreachery on the Great Lakes
Treachery On The Great Lakes Orphaned at the age of fifteen, Nat Morton finds work as a longshoremen on the Chicago docks in 1899. Before his father’s untimely death, they had traveled regularly on a lumber barge across the Great Lakes. Now, Nat yearns to become a boat pilot. With the mystery of a lost…
Read MoreA City Of Lies
A City Of Lies Christine Thompson and Adam Vestry are Providentially reunited four years following their first adventure in The Invisible Empire. The year is 1876. Chicago, just five years after the Great Fire, continues to rebuild its reputation as Queen of the West. The nation stands on the threshold of greatness, and a hope…
Read MoreInvisible Empires
Invisible Empires Josiah Washington, a sixteen-year-old former slave, longs to experience the true meaning of freedom in 1870’s Philadelphia. An act of kindness sets Josiah at odds with ADAM VESTRY, the seventeen-year-old son of an influential white newspaperman who is secretly plotting to bring the Ku Klux Klan into the North.Deeply hurt and frustrated by…
Read MoreA Trail Of Tears
A Trail Of Tears Daniel Sweetwater is a sixteen-year-old Delaware Indian living with his preacher father among the Cherokee in 1838. He and his father are forced to march with the last remnants of the Cherokee nation on a 1000-mile journey from their homes in Georgia to a reservation in the Oklahoma Territory. Cruel men…
Read MoreRace For The Skies
Race For The Skies Struggling to make his way, 15-year old Andy Nelson is a gifted mechanic in a 1910 Midwest town. He finds a wallet, but his greedy boss, Seth Talbot, wants the money. Andy refuses, banks the money to keep it safe until he can find the rightful owner, and hides the empty…
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