Chase takes you to places that are no longer in existence, but he shares many of the details. He reveals what it was like before having a telephone or a television set in the home. His travels take you from Colorado and Arizona to the far east coast and even to Okinawa. Chase has the insight to tell what life was like as a child and as an adult. Some areas may be extremely challenging to endure and some mystifying, but the story continues.Throughout his story, don't miss out on lea...

This book provides classroom practice and research studies that verify Reacting to the Past (RTTP)—a student-centered, active learning pedagogy that provides college students and faculty unique teaching and learning opportunities—as a high impact practice for student learning and engagement. The overarching objective of this book is to collect practices and evidence from multiple disciplines and institution types regarding the efficacy of RTTP in higher education classroom settings. At its...

When the plague came, federal agent Ellie Colson fled into the Adirondacks with Dee, the daughter she barely knew.They began a new life as subsistence farmers, isolated from the fall of the world. In the six years since, a small community has arisen from the ashes. Dee is grown up. She's engaged to Quinn, a young man from across the lake. And she's being hunted. Strangers are spying on the farms at night. Dee's harassed by a spurned suitor. One of Quinn's dogs turn...

In the fast-paced Breakers series, humanity faces not one apocalypse, but two: first a lethal pandemic, then a war against those who made the virus.It's been six years since the plague and Tristan has spent five of them in Maui with her brother Alden. Life seems quiet. Simple. Peaceful. All these illusions are torn away when she discovers an alien installation hidden in the mountains. In response, she prepares a boat and starts work on a new home deep in the forest...

For decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental challenges have drawn sustained attention from regional and national media. Observers have typically focused on Louisiana’s distinctive political culture, including jungle primaries, colorful candidates, and tolerance for scandal. However, recent shifts have eroded the state’s unique political char...

As an agent of the Department of Advance Analysis, she's one of a handful of people who knows about the spread of a new virus - one she believes will wipe out mankind.With her bosses in denial, she flies to New York to get her ex-fiancé, Chip, to safety. But he's already been scooped up and quarantined - and so has his adopted daughter. Pursued by her own agency, Ellie will stop at nothing to break Chip out before the virus claims them all.

My "Doorway to Death" short story was originally submitted as an assignment in a Short Story Writing Class at Pima Jr. College in 1975. Since I saved it for the past 47 years, I've decided to self-publish it. I hope you enjoy reading it. It's been something I hoped for one day to share with you. (Chase)

Anson's army has driven Raina from the mainland, but the war is far from over. From the safety of Catalina Island, she launches a guerrilla campaign, meaning to weaken him cut by cut.She finds herself matched at every step by his grimly determined lieutenant, Lowell. With progress slower than expected, Raina is forced to accept the creation of a war council. But the council's will to fight is weakening by the day. Pressured by her enemies and from within, Raina soo...

Once, Walt Lawson saved the world. Lately, he's lived in peaceful anonymity with his girlfriend Carrie. This morning, she's been kidnapped.Walt has a single lead: the van that took her. Its trail points him up the coast to San Jose, where survivors have banded together against the gangs who've overrun the north. With the aid of a local guide, Walt homes in on the kidnappers, who are days from shipping Carrie far away.But Walt's past is about to crash down o...

As my gift to others on my 75th birthday, I am self-publishing this very short story. This true story begins with a baby boy's encounter of being terrified by 2 older boys who are wearing masks on Halloween night in either 1946 or 1947. The story continues as the narrator tells it from the way he perceives the baby is maturing and adjusting to masks. You may wonder if this child's trauma will continue or how the mask evolves into his life. I hope you will enjoy reading my story about "The ...

In upstate Idaho, Ness Hook is run out of his mom's house by his bullying brother Shawn. In Redding, California, Tristan Carter is graduating college, but with no job and no prospects, she'll have to move back in with her parents. Then the world ends.After Ness discovers his best friend dead of disease, Shawn takes their family to the mountains to wait out the plague.As Tristan's parents fall sick, she's left to care for her younger brother, Alden. Both set...

In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa.In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter. When Vanessa dies of the flu, Walt is devastated. But she isn't the last. The virus quickly kills billions, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. As Raymond and Mia hole up in an abandoned mansion, where they learn to function without electricity,...