The Book
The Second Born: The Dead Giants
It was an inherited struggle for many generations of those living on the outskirts of Appalachia. A poor man with poor ways, our father dictated the Bible to his own liking. He’d preach hellfire and brimstone from the pulpit before falling prey to the devil’s holy water again. Wed as a child, our mother, sixteen years younger than our father, guided her nine children with love and hope that all things be possible through the Lord’s will. My older brother.....
The Second Born: The Reverend’s Ways
Two young brothers struggle to save their farm and help their mother provide for nine children. Their honky-tonky father complicates everything with his quenchless thirst for ‘quick cash’ and the brothers suddenly find themselves logging their farm’s dense forest. They meet a host of characters from that culture who changes them all, some for the better, and some not. Conflicts arise and personalities clash, sides are drawn with the old man pretending he has control of it all, while.....
The Second Born: The Gant House
Tempers would flare with the old man breaking his promises yet again. My anger would overcome me when I planned his demise that he’d never hurt us ever again. With tall tales of Whiskey Holler and times gone past old Harry at ninety, would become a dear friend of mine. It was uplifting Calvin’s return and with a host of others to work the woods, especially with James falling in love and never being around when I needed him. The.....