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From End to End

Claude: A Novel Set In The Distant Future

Consequences

Eternity: A Heavenly Novel

Nothing Personal... It's Just Business

Mom and Me: Three Cat Stories

Shay

Pendulum

Distant Star

Murder Beside the Hudson

Writing fiction is fun, but requires inspiration to a greater degree than non-fiction.  We enjoyed writing the stories below and hope you will enjoy reading them.

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Jan Young's Fiction Catalog

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From End to End NEW

227 Pages

628 KB

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A collection of wide-ranging short stories by an author with wide-ranging interests.  Included are two ghost stories, two pieces of railroad-related fiction, an exploration of what it means to become elderly, and both creation and destruction stories.  All are designed for a general audience and are appropriate for younger readers.

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Murder Beside the Hudson

252 Pages

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A man and his wife are found murdered in their beautiful home on the Hudson River north of New York City.  The investigator rules out the household staff and concentrates on a mysterious bearded visitor that the taxi company brought to the house that day.  His connection to the victims turns out to be the key to understanding the convoluted story behind the deaths.

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Distant Star

457 Pages

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Exiled from Earth, forty thousand people make a seven-generation trek to a new star, a new planet and a new home.  Along the way they encounter technical difficulties, mysterious aliens, new diseases and dissention within their own ranks.

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Pendulum

163 Pages

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Set in the 1920s, this story mixes small town mid-American life with prohibition, the Chicago mob and courtroom drama in a tale with one surprising twist and turn after another.

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Shay

210 Pages

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Railroad fiction in the style of the 1930s: The action takes place on a Shay-powered lumbering line in the years surrounding World War I.

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Consequences

267 Pages

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What happens when a time-traveler decides to go back in history and change the outcome of World War II?  Ray Putnam, living in 2010, finds that he has a battle of his own on his hands.  Everything has consequences and life gets complicated in a hurry.

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Nothing Personal...  It's Just Business 

323 Pages

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Jimmy Alden, a successful businessman, is mugged in a parking garage and would have been killed were it not for the intervention of a strange little man known as Bub.  Bub uses the mugging to extort Jimmy and force him into a life of terrorism with incredible consequences for Jimmy, for his family, and for the nation.

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Eternity: A Heavenly Novel 

260 Pages

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For a moment, set aside the question of whether or not heaven exists. If it does, what it is like? This novel begins with the death of Robert Conway and then follows his life in paradise. It’s a bed of roses to be sure, but some of the roses have thorns and there are both glories and surprises.

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Claude: A Novel Set In The Distant Future 

275 Pages

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The planet Gehrig was discovered in the year 3118 and was named after a legendary player of an antique game.  Its name came about when a surveyor, who was a history buff, orbited the planet and noticed that its single continent and single ocean were shaped approximately like the coverings on an old-fashioned baseball.  He later researched the game and discovered that one of its heroes had been a man named Lou Gehrig.  The surveyor proposed naming the planet Gehrig and the name stuck.  

Gehrig, however, was found to be a planet without exploitable resources and one with violent and fearsome native wildlife.  It was thus ignored until 3750 when the Galactic Committee chose to make it a prison planet: a dumping place for the worst of the worst.

Dave Welch was improperly convicted of a series of horrendous murders and banished to the planet Gehrig.  This novel is the story of his life, his discoveries, and what he does with them.

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Mom and Me: Three Cat Stories

298 Pages

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Three novellas prominently involving cats:  Mom and Me is the biography of a tortoise-shell shorthair living in present-day Alaska.  Smudgy involves a gray tabby in a love story set during World War II.  The Feud tells of a 1920s murder solved, in part, with the assistance of an elegant and intelligent Siamese named Sultan.  Although fiction, all three stories present the cats in a realistic and natural way and are appropriate for all readers.

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