Charleston, SC Short Stories, Book One, Six Tales of Courage, Love, the War Between the States, Satire, Ghosts & Horror from the Holy City

There are six exciting stories in Charleston, SC Short Stories, Book One, along with 31 IMAGES, mostly FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF BEAUTIFUL CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. Each photograph relates to action in each story, thus enhancing each story greatly, and each gorgeous photograph has a detailed caption with MUCH additional information. Pick up a good bit of fascinating Charleston history without even realizing it! The author's imagination has been FIRED by Charleston's colorful past of pirates and ghosts, and, of course, the War Between the States, ever since he was a little boy. As an adult, he studied Charleston history and literature intensely at the College of Charleston and on his own for over 30 years. The author's literary philosophy is to make a story MOVE, as Louie L'Amour would do, but with the emotional detail of an Anton Chekhov.

Here are the story titles followed by the EPIGRAPHS:

A More Perfect Fifty-Dollar Bill
“If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side.”
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

V for Victory, V for Vision
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus

Indian Rose
"If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle it is."
J. B. Yeats

Payday
. . . Suddenly, John bolted to O'Flynn and slowly, deliberately, poured the blood red acid on O'Flynn's head, careful to cover his whole Moe-head as the unlucky O'Flynn jerked and convulsed and screamed his primal death scream into the tight bandana. . . .

The Mullets of Colonial Lake
They were a different breed of Mullet . . .

The Genie of Folly Beach
“I want all racists and race hustlers gone so I’m wishing for an end to the Ku Klux Klan,” and immediately the KKK was gone along with the NAACP, the Black Coaches Association, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and MSNBC, among others.