The St. Joseph Writers Guild has a heart for writing and for writers. We encourage anyone who writes, or who thinks they might like to write, to seek us out. The goal of the St. Joseph Writers Guild is to encourage writers to have confidence in themselves and their writing ability. We wish to promote in them the desire to further develop their skills. It is our task to promote respect and enthusiasm for the written word. This anthology of some of our guild members’ works is a written collage of our passions for the art of creative writing. This collection will now be preserved for future generations. Long after we writers are gone, this book of our written words will live on. In the future, as this book pops up again and again, it will be like looking backward and seeing the footprint we made in the sands of time. All proceeds to benefit the St. Joseph Writers Guild Annual Young Writers Contest.

St. Joseph Writers Guild: An Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Casey, Julie L.

Guild, St. Joseph Writers

Literary

Amazing Things Press

Luke Davis is about to set out on the adventure of a lifetime, cruising the Hawaiian Islands and the South Pacific on his first sailboat, which he’d just restored. Just before he is about to depart, he is approached by the granddaughter of one of the richest men in all of Asia to charter his yacht. He didn’t really need the money and certainly not the intrusion of her security team but, overcome by her beauty and intrigued with her sailing experience, he is about to embark on a voyage that a young man from rural Missouri could never have dreamed.

Seeking the Green Flash

Daise, Lanny

Genre Fiction

Princess Laney Rae has flown off on her blue butterfly named Bill to visit Wise Guy, but they are caught in a rain shower. Bill can't fly in the rain. How will she get home? Maybe the pink dragon with one eye open and one that winks will help her.

The Princess and the Pink Dragon

Children's Books

Kirschner, Thomas

Activities, Crafts & Games

Bracken is a typical teenage boy, more interested in the angles of the girl’s exposed back teasing him from the seat ahead of him than in anything the geometry teacher could present. His life is filled with school, video games, and thoughts of girls, not necessarily in that order. Life just flows along uneventfully and unacknowledged, like the electricity that courses through the power lines — until PF (Power Failure) Day. On PF Day, the sun strikes Bracken’s world with an unseen surge of electromagnetic fury, which cripples power stations and burns transformers to crispy nuggets of regret. No one in Bracken’s world had ever thought about how much they depended on electrical power, but now, without it, they are plunged into survival mode. Bracken soon realizes how lucky he is to live on a farm in the Midwest. What seemed like a dull and backwards life before is now the greatest chance for survival in what seems like a powerless world. Food, water, and heat are readily available, although hard work is required to make use of them. Bracken and his family must learn to survive like their ancestors, who settled their land.

How I Became a Teenage Survivalist

Vintage Mysteries

Marie, Megan

Poetry

Five centuries in the future, in a village called Holt, Orion enjoys his uncomplicated life hunting deer and bison, using only his wits and amazing speed to run down his prey, until a girl of a different sort and the invasion of another tribe threaten to change his way of life forever. &nbsp;Life has drastically changed for the entire world after a series of solar superstorms destroyed the power grids, caused a decrease of the sun's energy output, and plunged the Earth into an ice age. The survivors have evolved into a race of people with enhanced genes who have made their simple, pastoral lifestyle comfortable and enjoyable. Yet, not all people have been so successful, and one such tribe, the Outliers, threatens to usurp Orion's village and way of life from them.

Defenders of Holt

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

It's a world without superheroes... just like ours, except for one thing. There USED to be superheroes. Then one day, almost exactly fifty years ago, it all disappeared. All the bad guys and all the good guys had a war and then they vanished, taking their powers and the very ability to HAVE powers with them.There are mysterious heroes and villains now, but they don't have superpowers. What they do have are helpers-Tricks-people who give them an edge, or maybe just a sandwich. Among these heroes and villains are former minor super heroes who didn't vanish but lost their abilities. Brand's grandfather is one of these, a sidekick who lost everything in the war. Brand has grown up with this legacy, raised by his grandfather when his parents were killed. Brand is a Trick; he helps the heroes. But things are about to change.Prophecy says the powers will return on the fiftieth anniversary of the war. The world will once again allow magic but will be destroyed because of it. Brand is seeing things that shouldn't be happening, ghostly figures, strange dreams, powers-superpowers-coming back, allies becoming enemies, the social structure unwinding, evil forces hunting him down, blaming HIM. They claim it's all Brand's fault, and Brand is starting to believe they may be right!Oh, and scariest of all... Brand goes on his first date.

Trade of the Tricks: The Tricks' Brand

Noe, David

Molly's Parade

Ebrecht, Mary

Animals

All his life, Nevel Walker has had all the answers… until now. On a secret mission for the Underground Book Movement, Nevel leaves the country he loves and finds that his partner may not be who she says she is. In an ever-changing world, Nevel finds survival is no longer the main focus of his quest. A greater purpose leads his next mission, a mission he must face with or without Quinn.

Pass of the Crow (I Am Currency)

Grady, Whitney L.

Would you turn in your books to a corrupt government, or would you join the Underground Book Movement? When a meteor slams into the earth causing a shift in the planet's magnetic core, the age of technology ends and economies across the globe crash. Years later, knowledge is not only power…it is currency. Bookkeepers are invaluable in this post-apocalyptic world. Nevel can never tell anyone he is a bookkeeper. His photographic memory is his secret. With a dystopian government that keeps all known books under lock and key looming as a constant threat and with parents involved as agents in the U.B.M. (Underground Book Movement) to protect the books that still secretly exist, Nevel is in a dangerous position. Never does this cause an issue until the day a fellow classmate, Quinn, appears at his door and proves to know more than she should.

I Am Currency

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