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ARISE
Adventures, Comedies, Tragedies, Poems, and All-Out Lies by David Safford
Embark on dozens of adventures that will take you beyond your imagination’s frontier with this collection of David’s best short fiction and poetry. ARISE includes David’s novella “The Way of the Gray Contagion,” a story of a man searching for healing in the midst of a horrific pandemic.
Will he find healing in the arms of nature? Or will he wreak destruction on Mother Nature’s beauty?
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I’m sure you will enjoy:
“Climb to the Bottom”
Bethany Jireh Lee is only a few hundred feet from the summit of Vinson Massif, the tallest mountain in Antarctica. But when a fellow climber falls ill on the way, her entire expedition is thrown into harm’s way.
“Whatever Happened to Jeremy Mankin?”
Anything can happen in the town of Whispering Harbor, where young Jeremy Mankin discovers a fantastical creature living in the trees.
“The Terminator Line”
Two astronauts-turned-lovers approach a distant planet, hoping to find humanity’s new home. Will the narrow sliver of habitable land known as the “terminator line” be enough to provide humanity with hope for the future, or is it yet another tragedy waiting to happen?
“Give Him the Gospel”
Discover a different kind of church in the Smoky Mountains, where its preacher runs a not-so-secret moonshine still in order to keep a much more dangerous secret.
Subscribers also receive access to adventures with:
- A teacher who is literally dying for a cup of coffee
- A not-so-typical hall guard in a spy story
- A disgruntled gas station attendent who decides to blow it all up
- A blind girl who braves a haunted forest to find her brother
- A young man who suffers in order to be a part of an old college tradition
- A widow on the western frontier who befriends a wounded Native American
- A mother and daughter fleeing from servitude, only to confront a viscious slave hunter
- The world’s first murder during his mysterious and lonely exile
- A time-traveling husband desperate to undo his mistakes
- A mother eager to escape a horrific marriage to a settler of Cades Cove
- And much more!
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FLOOD: The First Smoky Mountains Adventure
After an accident nearly claims the life of her best friend, Monica Greene decides to do what it takes to prevent any more disasters from befalling the visitors to, and rangers of, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. However, when a tropical storm rolls over and dumps millions of gallons of floodwater on the mountains, Monica will have to risk life and limb to save the ones she loves the most.
Coming 2022!
SMOKE: The Second Smoky Mountains Adventure
Christian “Wilde” Webberis the best search and rescue ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But when a six year-old boy vanishes from the famed peak of Rocky Top, Wilde must confront the demons of his past if he hope to rescue the boy before it’s too late.
Coming 2023!
FIRE: The Third Smoky Mountains Adventure
Allison Blaze, an elite park ranger, must catch a renegade arsonist setting fires in Great Smoky Mountains National Park that are incinerating homes and endangering lives. Worse still, the arsonist strikes just as Blaze and her husband, Travis, attempt to foster a pair of troubled children, a crisis that threatens to destroy her beloved natural homeland, and her marriage.
Coming 2024!
Blood and Coffee
Fischer can do things with coffee that no one else can. Employing exotic blends and ingredients, he can help people change their behavior and start making the world a better place. But what will he do when his dream of saving the world with coffee turns into a nightmare of abuse, violence, alienation, and murder?
Coffee is Served Soon
The Lily and the Mighty
In the year 1830, Jacob and Celestine make the fateful choice to flee from slavery in hope of starting a new life in the north. But when the escape is botched, Jacob is recaptured, and Celestine must hide with her daughter in the swamps of South Carolina, their chances of success are seemingly destroyed. Will they ever find a way to cover the many miles to the north and reunite in the lands of freedom?
Coming soon!
Murder at the Shootin’ Show!
In Lonely Meadow, Nevada, a band of no-good bandits and villains from the wild west gather for a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity at striking it rich. But when someone kills the main attraction, Snaketooth Johnson, the mystery is on! Written to be performed as a dinner murder mystery, Murder at the Shootin’ show is a hilarious, Monty Python-meets-Blazing Saddles production that will thrill audiences of any age!
The Last Lafaye
The day is fast approaching when Isabel Lafaye will finally marry the love of her life in beautiful New Orleans. But when the family’s cursed past is revealed, the festive occasion turns deadly. Part Agatha Christie mystery, part Wes Craven slasher, The Last Lafaye is a thrilling, fast-paced drama that will leave audiences in delighted shock at all the twists and turns! The play is also available in dinner theater format.
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So far, I’ve written poems about:
- A world without faith in God
- The difficulties of adolescence
- The experience of falling in love for the first time
- Writing letters to one’s future spouse
- Finding a photograph of an ex
- My father’s profession: social work
- Mother’s Day and the art of motherhood
- The innkeeper from the Nativity story
- Why I hope to never own a cat
- The ugliness of ignorance
- Shopping for a new book
- A date that we called a “not date” but was really a date
- The moment I learned I was going to be a father
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