Randell Jones

Sooner or Later is Volume 9 of the Personal Story Publishing Project, sharing 50 stories by 50 writers, each story about 800 words and resonating with the theme "Sooner or Later--personal stories of time, timing, and inevitability." Fifty writers share insightful, heartfelt, thought-provoking, and humorous stories about how the matters of time and timing have affected their lives or been essential elements of one episode or another. Being too early or too late, having all the time in the world, or not nearly enough make all the difference in our life experiences. Among these stories are tales that challenge the matter of inevitability which inevitably comes up when we bring these two words close enough to interact-sooner or later. Through 50 short stories, you share in the personal experiences of writers-both new voices and seasoned storytellers. They skillfully share and reflect on life episodes, offering lessons learned, cautions for consideration, and encouragements for the journeys of others. Through these stories we glean a glimpse into the experiences of these writers. We consider how time comes into play in their lives and in ours-right time/wrong time, too much time, too little. Inevitably we discover life is all about time and timing, sooner or later.

Twists and Turns in the seventh collection in the Personal Story Publishing Project gathering stories of 750-800 words from individual writers to share their stories resonating with a stated theme.In Twists and Turns, 50 writers share powerful, touching, and amusing stories about inflection points in their lives, times when chance and choice, misfortune, failure, and grace intervened to redirect them onto a new path, to awaken them to new potentials or to lead them to accept what they could not control. Some are light-hearted stories of getting away with something. Others, startling reminders of possibilities that might yet befall any of us. All help encourage a shared human empathy for one another as we make our ways through this world along and against all the twists and turns that lead and confound us. Through 50 short stories, you share in the experiences of writers-both new voices and seasoned storytellers. They skillfully share tales from their lives, causing us to consider our own experiences, our own stories of life changes by choice and chance that intervene and put us onto new paths. As each new path leads to yet another, we see the challenges of these continuing redirections as the inevitable creators of yet more stories and chapters we might one day tell.

The Battle of King's Mountain was the turning point of the American Revolution. After more than five years of fighting, the British invaded the southern colonies expecting to amass an army of loyalists as they marched through. After Major Patrick Ferguson threatened to destroy the homes of the overmountain settlers in today's east Tennessee and southwest Virginia, these backwoods militiamen marched over the mountains and defeated Ferguson's detachment at King's Mountain, destroying a third of Lord Cornwallis's army. These men had fought Shawnees, Cherokees, Scots Tories, and British Regulars during the prior six and honed the skills that made them feared as "the yelling boys." The story of their engagements from 1774 to 1780 is an exciting episode in the story of these men as heroes of the American Revolution.