Tales of Small Adventure

By Christine Lyons and William Lyons

Silence of Midnight
This story is about a teenage girl who lost her mother from cancer. She and her father decided to take a trip to visit his sister down South, unknowing of the events that would take place on their journey.

Sweet Voice Afar
This story was told to me by my father one day while we were fishing at a river. Nothing was biting and there was nothing for us to do. He told me about his adventure in the great Pine Run Forest.

A Reporters Hunch
This is a story about a young reporter, named Frank Ross, who falls in love with writing. Not only just writing, but he wants to write down to earth, like getting involved with whoever he is writing about. To him, this is the only way a story should be written.

Life as It Is
This is about help from loneliness and fear. Seek and you should find; have faith in yourself. You know, there are lots of ups and downs in life, such as loneliness and fear. Lonelinessit could be one of the most frustrating experiences that any one person could face. There is a story that I would like to share with you. This story fits almost every person there is.

My First Trip by Frank Ross
This story, I hope, is a reminder to all that people change and you must look at them the way you want them to look at you.

Another Frank Ross Story
Hi, my name is Frank Ross. I work for a local newspaper. You probably read my story called A Reporters Hunch in this book. Written by my long-lasting friend, William Lyons. This story I am about to tell is about two people who lived a distance apart. They never met but had something in common.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503549142

Christine Lyons

Hi, my name is William Lyons. Let me tell you a little about myself. I was born at a place called Tip Top, Tennessee, at the Cumberland Gap along the Cumberland River just north west of Dover, Tennessee. In 1944, in to a sheer crop family at the age four, we moved to a sheer crop farm in Kentucky. The farm I speak of in the story called “Silence of Midnight” is the actual farm we lived on. The story is fictional, but the location is real. I got out behind a mule and a plow in 1962 to go in to the army in 1964. I was in Korea from 1966 to 1967; I was in Vietnam. After returning home, in the early 1970s, I was a firefighter. I worked myself up to a lieutenant and on the board of directors. In late 1970s I became a police officer. Things happened to where I went into the VA Hospital. As I was lying in bed, the books I was reading was three to four hundred pages long. And I got to thinking, why not write a short storybook? So I started writing. The more I wrote, the more it came to me. This is how and why my book was written. You know this uniform I am wearing is a uniform I wore when I got out of the army in 1968. And you know, it still fits.

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Copyright © 2015 by William Lyons.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015903412

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CONTENTS

SILENCE OF MIDNIGHT

SWEET VOICE AFAR

A REPORTER’S HUNCH

LIFE GOES ON

LIFE AS IT IS

MY FIRST TRIP

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I would like to dedicate this book to three lovely ladies. (Left to right) The Causey sisters: Aunt Mary Wasterman (Causey); Aunt Delsey (Causey); my mother, Ruby Lyons (Causey). All three are in heaven now just sitting around the table talking about old times.

SILENCE OF MIDNIGHT

This story is about a teenage girl who lost her mother from cancer. She and her father decided to take a trip to visit his sister down south, unknowing of the events that would take place on their journey.

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SILENCE OF MIDNIGHT

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It was a nice quiet, mild sunny day in July when Heather was at her friend’s house. She received a phone call from her dad. He was trying to explain to Heather about her mom. When Tom broke down in a tearful voice, he asked Heather, Could you have someone bring you to the hospital right away? It’s your mother. Heather, with hands trembling and sadness in her eyes, hung up the phone and asked her friend, T.D., if her mother could take her to the hospital. When Heather, T.D., and T.D.s mother arrived at the hospital, they saw Heather’s father in the lobby. He was sitting quietly in a chair, head bowed low. They approached Tom with sadness in their hearts, fearing that Helen had passed away. All three knelt down beside Tom with an embrace. Tom looked at Heather with tears in his eyes. Speaking with a low voice, he says, I was at work when I got the call from the hospital. I was only twenty minutes away, but when I got here, she was gone." They all embraced each other and wept for a few moments.

Then Heather and Tom went into the room where Helen lay. Tom said in a quiet and peaceful way, She is resting now and is in no more pain.

The funeral was a small but lovely one. The days went by, but nothing was the same. Finally, Tom called his sister in Alabama and asked if he and Heather could come and stay for a while. His sister agreed and thought it would be a good thing. After Tom spoke to his boss and told him what they were about to do, Tom and Heather