Pen to Publish
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Pen to Publish is a master storyteller skilled in weaving tales of love, loss, and hope. With a background in writing, she creates vivid worlds filled with raw emotion, drawing readers into rich characters and relatable experiences.
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Bless Your Heart and Pass the Wi-Fi.
Bless Your Heart and Pass the Wi-Fi: A Grit, Grace, and Google Maps Story There in Willow Creek, that quaint little town where sweet tea stuck to the air like clinging granny women gossip and magnolias burst onto sidewalks like tacky scandal, this was Mabel Jenkins' home. She was the type of woman who could take a thing as ordinary as last week's pot roast and a can of cream of mushroom soup and make it into king-worthy casserole. Her knitting, her peach cobbler, and refusing to give out the Wi-Fi password were all legend-status in town. Mabel would just say, "Bless your heart, some things are just too precious to give away."
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in Humor
The Bridge to Tomorrow.
Selma, Alabama, in the spring of 1965, was charged with tension and hope. Black citizens protested, marched, and attempted to vote for weeks, and were jailed, intimidated, and denied. One of them was Sarah Johnson, a 23-year-old high school teacher whose voice could soothe a mob but whose soul craved justice.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in History
The Whistler in the Pines.
Deep in Asheville, North Carolina, there is a half-mile forest that people avoid at night. There is no warning on the trails or fencing, but the empty people know better. They say that something that passes through those pines does so, something that whistles as it goes.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in Horror
The Great Waffle House Road Trip Incident.
It started when Uncle Rick announced we were going on a "classic American road trip." You know the kind—seven people stuffed into a five-person van, living off sketchy gas station snacks, lukewarm soda, and the blind hope that the air conditioning holds out past Kentucky.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in Humor
The Last Signal in Monument Valley.
As Ava Jamison sliced her bicycle across the desert road, red dust floated like smoke. Monument Valley's sandstone colossi glowed yellow in the declining sun. An older-than-memory land, and yet it breathed. No bird, no wind—her cries, the rocks, and the fading signal alone astonished.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in Fiction
Pete Rose Timeline: The All-Time Hits Leader's Rise and Fall from the Top.
Pete Rose. The sound of his name conjures a scuffle in each sports bar, stadium, and backyard grill around the country. Love or hate him, Rose's place in the annals of baseball history is undeniable. He's the Major League Baseball batting champion — that 4,256 number just boggles — and played so aggressively that other individuals thought there was heart in the game. It is not a story of trophies and statistics, however. It's a story of mistake, dissension, and a quarter-century fight to regain the diamond.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in Gamers
The Last Light of Hollow Creek.
Clara shivered, clinching her fist over the steering wheel of her reliable Subaru. The trees around the tiny rural town of Hollow Creek were veiled in mist. Her headlights struggled to penetrate the mist, and her rough breathing rasped in her throat as she gazed down the road. Too long years had elapsed since she'd returned, but something within her was drawing her in. It was not any whistling young folks; it was a loose-fingered group of loose ends. It was her impression that there was loose business in the black town's past, and she felt it as a tug within.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in Horror
The Great Yard Sale Wars of Maple County.
Every neighborhood has a neighbor. Edna Mae Ferguson was there in Maple County, Ohio. Edna Mae was the yard sale queen—she was the unrestrained Empress. She topped every spring with shelves of color-coded bric-a-brac sold sensibly and advertised "free coffee with every $10 purchase." Nobody ever figured out how she did it, and she always seemed to have tons of stuff to sell. Either in gathering some or a fence for the second-hand store a block away, people would use to gossip. The whole lot of yard sales in bulk just in order to net a quarter resale, others suspected. Unrelenting. On the whole, in lighthearted jest, that could be grist for mockery throughout Maple County, stakes were high this year.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in Humor
How Route 66 Forever Changed America.
They close their eyes and see America, and Americans see an open road—an open road with no skyline on skyline before them, wind in the windows. That vision lay in part along one mythical route: Route 66. Nicknamed "The Mother Road," Route 66 is a highway from Chicago to Los Angeles, yes, but so much more: an enduring symbol of hope, migration, defiance, and the dogged American Dream.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in History
An Adventure Along America's Unseen Corners.
There is something magical about driving off into the great unknown down an open highway. Perhaps it is the promise of freedom, the excitement of the discovery, or the simple pleasure of getting somewhere else. Whatever it is, it beckons to us, most urgently when life has been too compartmentalized, too fragmented.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in Wander
Saluting the Heart of America's Home: Mother's Day.
The second Sunday in May, families across the nation sit down to dinner together to honor one of life's greatest virtues: Mom. Though Mother's Day is more than Sunday morning pancakes, greeting cards, and flowers, it's a holiday built around love, sacrifice, and personalized input mothers bring into our own lives.
By Pen to Publish8 months ago in Families
