Steven E. Wedel

In the quiet town of Nokomis, Kelsi's life takes an unexpected turn when she moves into Dennis Aiken's home, an eccentric but kind-hearted widower with a penchant for storytelling and a profound love for his late wife, Gloria.

In a world saturated with success stories and overnight sensations, author Steven E. Wedel takes a refreshingly honest and humorous approach to navigating the tumultuous waters of the writing life.

Andrew Clausing is a teacher who has lost nearly everything. His wife left him. His teenage daughter hates him. He drinks too much. The only things he has are a love of teaching, his relationship as a mentor to his students, and a secret affair with another teacher....

An ancient prophecy of our kind tells us that a Son will be born to the Mother and that he will lead us in the coming war. Shara is the Mother no matter how much she may wish it otherwise....

When a young girl from eastern Oklahoma went missing in 1978, the community came together to search for her. One group of high school students and their teacher vanished the day of the search and were never seen again. This is their horrifying story....

Cody Treat has gotten used to living among the ruins of modern civilization. But when one of the thousands of ghosts following him finds a way to communicate their need for help, he learns that the end of the world was just the beginning of a fight for survival....

When a half-crazed horror author stumbles into the sheriff's office and confesses to murder, it falls to Deputy Sheriff Daniel W. Perriman to investigate. The writer was living in the old house beside an abandoned rock quarry filled with dark water and a darker mystery....

In this touching and often humorous memoir, machinist, journalist, corporate writer, public relations hack, and author Steven E. Wedel talks about how he became a high school teacher and what those 12 years in public education meant to him....

Something magical happened in the summer of 1978. Thirteen-year-old Robert Prince fell in love with Alia, a mysterious older woman who lived down the street....

Ramsay Quarles is already a wanted man when he guns down a cheating gambler in a small Kansas town. Now the dead man's nephew, Jack, has decided Ramsay is his new guardian and guide....

Shim and Shay don't like staying home alone while Mom and Dad go to work in the castle....

Keith's mother is dead, but that doesn't mean she's stopped trying to help him turn his life around....

When a meteor shower rains down on the North Pole, Guy Olson and an international team of scientists are dispatched to go investigate....

Nathan Jackson, old and blind, was there the day he came to life....

Rev. Milton Agnew's church's Brazilian mission has been destroyed, but the village isn't empty. He finds a strange woman named Amara. Can he save her and himself? Listen to find out....

Ben has been sent ahead of the herd traveling up the Chisholm Trail through Indian Territory. The herd needs water in the worst way, and a drought has dried up most of the creeks....

Lynette Cook knows about abuse. She learned it from her father and, later, had the lessons reinforced by the boyfriend she thought was her savior....

Harley Shaw's life is falling apart around him. His best pasture is ruined. His cattle are gone. His wife is gone. His daughter is gone. His sanity is slipping away, and there may be dead people taunting him....

Shara Wellington has always lacked confidence....

Steven E. Wedel offers four short stories that run the gamut from pure horror to shocking hilarity....