Short Stories and Tall Tales

About the Book

Story 1 - "Beyond Gender" - A perspective on the conflict between the "American Way of Life" and the "Unbearable Yoke of strict Evangelical Morality!"
Story 2 - "The Reluctant Witness" - A teenage sailor in battle in the South Pacific during WWII learned to hate and then during the Occupation at the end of the War, he learned to forgive and "live again."
Story 3 - "The Jewish Yankee" - Trapped in Pre WWII Nazi Germany, the victim learned to "cope" until his "escape" to the Promised Land after the surrender. A story like this has never been told before until now!
Story 4 - "The Earth Project" - A story before and after the creation and destruction of earth. Is this fiction or Amazing Revelation?
Story 5 - "The Return of P. O. Rake" - The story of an MIA in the Vietnam Conflict. His "unusual escape" and why he decided not to return.
Story 6 - "The Hog Hill Gang" - The drama of a group of young boys banded together in poverty during the Great Depression who later became the heroes of WWII to save the Nation.
Story 7 - "The Image" - An intimate story of a College Professor whose transgressions led him to become a "hero." FOR ADULTS ONLY!
Story 8 - "The Voluptuous Corps" - A short mystery solved by the Village Priest.

About the Author

The author is a veteran of WWII, drafted during his senior year of high school when the country desperately needed military personnel.; and served in the South Pacific, including 82 days on the "Okinawa Picket Line." Dr. Whitney is now a retired naval intelligence officer an college prfessor. He is married with four children and lives in upstate New York. The eight stories in this book are based on the perceived and vicarious experiences of the author. All stories are told as fiction to protect the pivacy of the innocent and prevent any possible lawsuits. The stories reveal intimate and personal feelings and relationships based upon Judaic and Christian morality. They are tastefully presented in an entertaining format devoid of unnecessary vulgarity and foul language.