Steven E Wedel

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.

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 first 12 years in public education meant to him. From beginning his teaching career as a 40-year-old long-haired guy with an alternative certification to teaching Advanced Placement, Wedel tells it all, including how he decorated his room as a heavy metal...

Judy Myers was happy enough. Single, the successful partner in an interior design business, with a home that was an oasis from her busy day of clients and colors. Until the day she arrived home to find the unexpected delivery of a white parrot that only seems to know one phrase. Now her life is falling apart. She can't sleep. She can't eat. Her home is a wreck. And everywhere she goes she hears the merciless shriek of the demonic bird. Can she get...

Becca is the pride of her little village until the day the wicked Trolls come down from their mountain and steal her away. The Troll king loves Becca's singing, so he takes her home and locks her into Fang Tower, where she has to sing for him whenever he wants. Zander wanders the seas fighting pirates and looking for adventure. When he hears the sweet, sad voice of Becca floating down from Fang Tower, he knows he must rescue her. The Troll king's...

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. Free at last from her own tormentors, Lynette now lives with her teenage daughter, Kari, in a small town in Oklahoma. Then one day she comes home from the grocery store to find her daughter's boyfriend and his two buddies raping Kari. Blinded by rage, Lynette shoots one of the boys and locks the other two...

SUMMER OF LOVE 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. SUMMER OF HORROR Something horrible and deadly happened between Robert, Alia, and his friends Scott and Tim. Something that would leave Robert scarred for the rest of his life. LIFETIME OF PAIN Unable to forgive himself or to love anyone else after what happened when he was thirteen,...

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.Orphaned and alone after an apocalyptic meteor event followed by a plague, Cody roams the ruins of Oklahoma City looking for food and shelter from the gangs hoarding supplies and torturing...

Dena is recently divorced and ready for a new life in Benevolence, Oklahoma. She has a new job and and old house. The job is promising. The house is perfect, with plenty of space for her and her two young daughters. She really thought this first week in her new house was going to be the start of a new life. The house, however, had other ideas ...

In Oklahoma City, a mother and daughter are visited by a creature that lives under beds. Pam and Allison Baker are a modern mother and daughter. They don't believe in monsters. Not really. But the monster under Allison's bed believes in them. Fans of short horror fiction will enjoy this take on a classic phobia as mother and daughter and monster come to terms with their living conditions.

Shim and Shay don't like staying home alone while Mom and Dad go to work in the castle. Then one day a gnome tells the children how the fairies gave him a bag of gold. The children set off to ask for a bag of gold of their own so Mom and Dad won't have to work. But there are dangers they never could have imagined waiting in the wide world outside their village, including a monster in the forest.