Next O&W Train from Tennessee

By Jr Holbrook

James Holbrook is the great-great-grandson of Nancy
Moody. Nancy Moody was the daughter of Charlot Moody
and Johnathon MoodyJohnathon Moody was killed in the
Civil WarNancy Moody being the mother of Armeldia
Moody and the grandmother of Raymond Wright, Selby
Wright, Clara, Cora, and Edith. This is the second short story
of James Holbrook, who also published Making Sense in
2011. James graduated from Sullivan University in 2008 with
honors and decided to try the option of writing some short
stories and childrens books. What James likes most about
writing is creative expression.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493152766

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NEXT

O&W

TRAIN

FROM

TENNESSEE

JR HOLBROOK

Copyright © 2013 by JR HOLBROOK.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 01/06/2014

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Contents

Tinker Baity

Going to Town

Meeting Mr. Wright

Their Children

Knowing When to Move

The Train Station

School

Around the Time of Development of Air Travel

Country Folk through and through

The Bedans

Family

Clara Reads Zane Grey

Cora Collects Coins

Men of Mortality

Profound Moments

Brown vs. the Board of Education in 347 US 483

Moon

On the Moon

Life

2012 USA Best Book Award

2013 San Francisco Book Festival Award

From the author of Making Sense from the Guy on the Edge

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Next O&W Train from Tennessee

Sarah Nichter (author and English professor at Sullivan University)—Next O&W Train from Tennessee is an exquisite promising new book of historical fiction with some very funny parts in it.

Next O&W Train from Tennessee

Donna Peerce (author of thirty-seven best-selling books)—I loved it.

Making Sense from the Guy on the Edge

Blue Ink Reviews—Startling revelations and heartfelt.

For my mother Shirley Ann Bedan Holbrook and everything that she ever did for me in life.

F OUR CHILDREN WITH dark brown hair sat in plain wooden chairs in a large empty room on a hardwood floor. They sat in a circle in the middle of the room. One child who looked very much like the other children said, Tick, tick, tick, tick. Another child who appeared to be any other child said, How much longer do we have to be here? Still another child, like all of the rest, cried out, Ten minutes. As the tick of the second hand of a clock could be heard as it moved, tick, a larger-than-life tall man moved into the room very slowly; his breath could be seen as he came into the room with a fog of mist, and he moved his hands together and whispered, It’s cold. On the opposite side of a rather large and empty room, a stout woman entered through a door without saying a single word. A sewing needle that she held lightly in her hands gently fell from her hands; it turned over and over with a whirl and fell to the ground on a hardwood floor and made a ping , ping and a somewhat softer and slower ping as it came to rest in this empty room. At that moment, a calendar appeared and everything was in focus and in place; the time was 1899 and the place was Tennessee.

When a time and season of change comes into an area, for instance, Jamestown, Tennessee, as much as any other place in America, it is like a lamp being turned on, showing the lamp’s hues and its way to make the shadows of darkness brighter. One thing about change is that it’s always there, and in order to see it, just look around, and it may be found.

A belief in a higher being is essential to life and living. Acknowledging that is a way to have peace and thanksgiving when these actions need to be shown. It is also a way to have contentment when