We Be Family You And I

About the Book

This story is fictional. It is about a sixteen year old boy Nicholas and his long time fifteen year old girlfriend Jennifer. It is about their awakening to their sexual feelings. It is about a mythical deer, the Lord Prince of the Forest. This deer has appeared in the forest of Nicks Grandparents for more than fifty years. Hunters throughout the years have at close range shot at it but no one can hit it. Nick is living with his grandparents until his parents divorce is finalized and the battle for him is settled in court. On Nicks sixteenth birthday both his parents come in separate cars to the grandparents for his birthday celebration. He receives a 35 cal. Marlin for his first hunt. Alone in the woods on his first hunt, he dozes off. He meets face to face with the Lord Prince of the Forest. Nick does not take the shot as everyone use had done. The Lord Prince of the Forest looks at Nick motionless eye to eye and by telepathy says “ We be Family you and I.” Nick not knowing how or why, answers the same way, “And let it be that all creators that walk, run, swim, crawl or fly, be your family as you and I.” This starts a series of encounters and with angry attacking animals, and because of the Lord Prince of the Forrest, Nick is able to bring these animals under his control

About the Author

William J. Webbe Sr. was born and raised in Flushing, Long Island, New York. He attended St. Michaels and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High, in Jamaica Queens. A year after graduation he enlisted in the Army for one year Universal Military Training. He was recalled in 1950 to serve in Korea with the 25th Inf. Division, 27th Inf. “Wolfhounds “ Regiment, Company M, Heavy Weapons. He was assigned to I Company Infantry as a Forward Observer for the 81mm mortars on the front line. . He returned home in October 1951 and was presented the Bronze Star Medal in March 1952 for action against the enemy. It was presented by Brigadier General Barringer at Governors Island in New York harbor. He married his High School sweetheart, Helen in June1952. They have two grown children Deborah and Bill Jr. and two Grandchildren Nicholas and Vincent. He worked for Gibbs and Hill Construction Engineers in New York City as a Jr.Pdraftsman. Gibbs and Hill was one of the builders of the Hydrogen Bomb plant in Oakridge Tennessee. He was on the Port Washington Police Force for four and a half years. He left that position to attend the Germane School of Photography. After graduation he opened his own photography studio, “Town and Country.” He was Office Manager for Conway Whittaker Inc, a Fleet Auto Leasing Company. The Chief Field Investigator for Whittaker Associates a member of the iii International Investigators Inc. After leaving both position he started his own Fleet Sales Company “H & A Fleet Sales Inc.” He retired from the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department in 1992. He took the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Firearms Instructor for Security Concepts Training Academy in 1992 and retired from that position in 2002. He wrote his first short story, “My Brother and Me,” it was published in the Good Old Days Magazine. He has also written, “The Girl That I Married,” “Goodbye Good Friend ” “Safe at Home,” “Honor, Family, Vengeance,” “Valley Forge In Korea,” “Service To My Country” and a history on “Black Powder.”The History of Black Powder was used as a reference guide in the Bayville Public Library. He has completed his first novel,”We be Family you and I.” He has hopes that readers will enjoy his novel as much as he enjoyed writing it.