Updated 2 October 2026
| Title | URL | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| **Title** | **Summary** | |
| A Baby and a Banjo | https://books2read.com/u/3y21pe | Funding sometimes comes from the most unlikely places to a couple of young tech entrepreneurs. |
| A Building | https://books2read.com/u/m2Bejo | A man on a cross-country hike approaches an unusual building. |
| A Chocolate Smuggler | https://books2read.com/u/4DrP7O | Let’s all be healthy. Sometimes, however, the best government intentions lead a dad to become an international smuggler. |
| A Clear, Perfect Light | https://books2read.com/u/me8dkA | Sometimes, we wish, the light returns to a clouded mind. |
| A Dark Night | https://books2read.com/u/3n95xo | A teenager and old man are “trapped” in a store after hours. Someone else is in the store. The old man teaches the teenager a few lessons. |
| A Library | https://books2read.com/u/3y21OB | The local library is closing. An everyday patron, however, has something else in mind. |
| Al-Qaeda | https://books2read.com/u/mvL1x8 | A bored college students wants to spend a year doing something else. A trip to Pakistan causes him to meet an old college acquaintance and an unlikely historical figure. |
| Another Blank Page | https://books2read.com/u/bP8gaj | Tim, a non-writing writer, needed some tension. Tim needed a place where there was noise, distractions, no perfection – a place that had grime, character, and inspiration. |
| Armed Robbery | https://books2read.com/u/mB1zdA | A convenience-store robbery turns into an exercise in written frustration. |
| A Small Boy | https://books2read.com/u/3LLnke | A boy struggles with being short his entire life. Then he meets someone who doesn’t care about that. |
| A Three-Day Walk | https://books2read.com/u/mlyLPM | A natural disaster causes a man to walk away from his house and meet others along his three-day walk. |
| Biscuits | https://books2read.com/u/bwA1OP | A well-intentioned young man struggles to find a way to lend aid to homeless persons. |
| Chats with Interesting People | https://books2read.com/u/4XN61L | In the middle of nowhere, a person finds the most unlikely place to have chats with interesting people. |
| City of Refuge | https://books2read.com/u/3JgEkg | An accidental killing pushes a man to seek safety in a city of refuge. |
| Coffee with God | https://books2read.com/u/3y21xe | A hunter is bitten by a poisonous snake. There is no hope until he has a cup of coffee on the porch with God. |
| Conversation: A Retreat | https://books2read.com/u/38veNr | Two writers talk about a retreat. One wants a retreat but just can’t find the means. The other convinces him otherwise. |
| Cooking at the Picnic | https://books2read.com/u/4XN6x7 | A group of co-workers with various temperaments cook at the company picnic. |
| Dreams Reality | https://books2read.com/u/mgD7ox | What are dreams? What is reality? Sometimes they blur together. |
| Escape From New York | https://books2read.com/u/3LLnkM | A weary traveler just wants to leave New York City and go home. |
| Esther's Grandfather | https://books2read.com/u/bz81xE | A successful cable news reporter is sent on assignment. She meets her grandfather, again. |
| Garage Debt | https://books2read.com/u/3kXPgL | If a man could just clean his garage, he could get on with his life. |
| Guitar Generations | https://books2read.com/u/b5RlGO | Playing the guitar bridges generations of a family. |
| Highway 340 | https://books2read.com/u/b5Rl0p | Stranded with an empty gas tank, a young man learns about community, food, and receiving help in the most unlikely places and people. |
| Home Defense | https://books2read.com/u/m2BeDo | An invading army approaches. A community bands together to defend their homes. An unlikely hero emerges. |
| I (Didn't) Like Him | https://books2read.com/u/311e0M | A young man, who never really liked his grandfather, meets in later in life in real life and understands a few things from his past. |
| I'm Going to Live | https://books2read.com/u/mB1zlO | A man is lost in the desert. He doesn’t know what to do. He finally decides that he is going to live. |
| In a Puff of Smoke | https://books2read.com/u/3kXPoN | An old man learns how to let the troubles of life blow away in a puff of smoke. |
| Interested Persons | https://books2read.com/u/bod250 | Financial backers appear with money and great technology. Two young men are the recipient of a gold mine. It is all connected to a Presidential election. |
| In the Shadow of Thy Wings | https://books2read.com/u/3n95VP | A police detective finds a witness to a murder. The witness, however, wants something and gives a priceless piece of paper in return. |
| Invaded by Aliens from Outer Space | https://books2read.com/u/m0ev0W | Aliens have invaded earth and have destroyed much of mankind’s technical abilities. The aliens, however, don’t look like aliens. |
| Islands on the Interstate | https://books2read.com/u/311eoD | A family escapes a dystopian landscape by first finding an island on the Interstate. |
| I Want Them to Like Me | https://books2read.com/u/4DrP5d | A young man learns that having everyone at work approve of him is not the most important thing. |
| I Was Hungry | https://books2read.com/u/bpn8Vl | A major league baseball player admits that he started playing out of a basic need. |
| Jump for the Flag Pole | https://books2read.com/u/4A1jyk | The office building is on fire. There only seems to be one way to escape. Can he make it? |
| Late | https://books2read.com/u/bx51xd | A newlywed wife is late picking up her husband. |
| Like Charlie Dickens | https://books2read.com/u/mY96eY | An angel visits a struggling writer and leaves him with a gift and a burden. |
| Maybe That Stops Now | https://books2read.com/u/b5Rlap | The story of a family: the matriarch was abandoned on the roadside by her family. The patriarch snuck into town on a train and pilfered a store. |
| No Fault Divorce Education | https://books2read.com/u/49Ov0p | A happily married couple finds a tax loophole to finance their son’s college education. |
| No Hot Dog Stories | https://books2read.com/u/bwA1Ev | Boy meets girl at a hot dog cookout and finds a way to talk to her. |
| Off the Interstate | https://books2read.com/u/md26xy | The paths of unrelated people who are about to change their lives cross on a small street off the interstate. |
| On the Bench | https://books2read.com/u/bpn8gE | Stranger exchange lessons for life at a outlet shopping center while sitting on the bench. |
| Our Last Game of Childhood | https://books2read.com/u/471Yeq | Childhood ends as two boys play their last game of childhood. |
| Paper Mache Aliens | https://books2read.com/u/4N5jEx | The alien spacecraft had been sitting in a lab for study for years. Then a new person enters and discovers the craft if made of paper mache. |
| Predator and Prey | https://books2read.com/u/bP8gkj | A writer spends a harrowing week at a cabin so he can write. His stay, however, is interrupted as he becomes the prey of a predator. |
| Quite a Name | https://books2read.com/u/bod2x1 | A person stops for lunch at a diner as he drives through a small town. He learns that his name is famous there. |
| Reading Glasses | https://books2read.com/u/4EdL1M | A widower tries to date years after his wife died. Will he reading glasses chase away his first date? |
| Relief and Celebration | https://books2read.com/u/bWyEkG | A young man learns that success is a cause for celebration, not relief. |
| RunningForPresident.Wordpress.com | https://books2read.com/u/bpn8xE | A man gets a free blog, writes daily, and finds himself running for President. |
| Send in the Kid | https://books2read.com/u/mZdQ6l | Everyone is afraid of a cantankerous and necessary man on a project. Everyone, that is, but a young man who knows nothing. |
| Shed | https://books2read.com/u/4DrPaO | Life as seen through the eyes of a shed. |
| Short Stories About Writing | https://books2read.com/u/38ve5r | A collection of short stories about writers and writing. |
| Short Stories in Rural Settings | https://books2read.com/u/4A1jPe | A collection of short stories set out in the country where the author spent several formative years. |
| Short Stories Set in the South | https://books2read.com/u/bO2zD0 | A collection of short stories set in the southern part of America where the author spent several formative years. |
| Someone Pushed Down the Sky | https://books2read.com/u/m0ev80 | Satellites are falling from their orbits to the earth. No one knows why. |
| Something about the American Dream | https://books2read.com/u/bP8gkY | There still is an American dream. It may not look the same, but it is there. |
| Sometimes You Roll the Ball | https://books2read.com/u/bWyEaW | A businessman learns that sometimes you make things easier for others. |
| Study Hall | https://books2read.com/u/4EdL2e | It was just another boring day in study hall — ripe for mischief. |
| Suburban Blues | https://books2read.com/u/mZdQke | The ins and outs of life in suburbia as experienced by someone who picks up a guitar as a hobby. |
| Ten Hours to Life | https://books2read.com/u/3LLn2e | He will have a long life, if he can survive the next ten hours and escape the curse of the community’s cemetery. |
| The Before Building | https://books2read.com/u/3G756d | In an unknown future, a wanderer bumps into a building of scientists who need his help. |
| The Candidate and the Engineer | https://books2read.com/u/bO2zkE | An unknown man runs for public office and enthralls crowds in person and on nationwide television. How does he do it? Who is the engineer by his side? |
| The Car Hackers | https://books2read.com/u/mKPdkE | In a future where all cars are self-driving and owned by the state, a small band of hackers has some fun. |
| The Cat in the Bag | https://books2read.com/u/mgD7xX | A person steals a bag from the bed of a pickup truck only to be surprised by what is in it. |
| The Chihuahuas | https://books2read.com/u/4N5jNY | A lonely old man turns his and the lives of others upside down by stealing the dogs of his neighbor. |
| The Coward | https://books2read.com/u/4XN68L | A high school student learns that one of the most-respected teachers admits that he is a coward. |
| The Cut and Paste Memoirs | https://books2read.com/u/4jGgzk | A man writes his memoirs without picking up a pencil or touching a computer — just a copy machine. |
| The Disruption Prevention Division | https://books2read.com/u/bx51yP | It is true. The government does prevent the release of products and ideas that will disrupt the economy. |
| The Edge of the Woods | https://books2read.com/u/bz81O9 | Something ominous has been deep in the forest. Now, however, it is on the edge of the woods. |
| The Essentials | https://books2read.com/u/3G75En | Jolted by something at home, a manager decides to stop wasting time and energy and only build the essentials. |
| The First Time | https://books2read.com/u/3G75gd | An old man takes his grandson squirrel hunting. Little did the boy know that for the grandfather, this was also the first time. |
| The Future of Mankind | https://books2read.com/u/471Y0a | Some see a school bus full of rowdy kids. One sees the future of mankind. He smiles. |
| The Gifts of the Wishful Thinkers | https://books2read.com/u/mVX8qA | Newlyweds provide the gifts they wish they would receive only to greatly disappoint one another. |
| The Great In Between | https://books2read.com/u/mq7Eoe | There is a time when a young adult is treading lightly in the great between ages. |
| The Greedy Virus | https://books2read.com/u/4jGgzv | A virus has hit mankind. There is no stopping it. Those hit by it fall prey to greed. |
| The Hacker | https://books2read.com/u/4A1j0e | An expert computer hacker does another job. This one, however, is physical theft instead of digital theft because, why not? |
| The Hiccups | https://books2read.com/u/bMA7y7 | A young man is stricken with the hiccups for days. |
| The Human Test Lab | https://books2read.com/u/4A1jrk | A college student needs money. He signs up for a weekend experiment in the human test lab. What could go wrong? |
| The Last Public High School in America | https://books2read.com/u/3RDLGG | Rich people want to still drive cars from a factory. They need factory workers, so they keep open the last public high school in America. |
| The Librarian | https://books2read.com/u/b6YRXW | In a dystopian future, one survivor finds solace as the librarian to every library in walking distance. |
| The Library Writer | https://books2read.com/u/md26Ry | A poor man lives with his poor sister and her two kids. The public library is where he toils day after day as a writer. |
| The Monument of Peace and Unity | https://books2read.com/u/mgD7nX | A nation of people gathers large stones in one place as a monument of peace and unity. Through the ages, the site is anything but peaceful. There does come a time… |
| The Old Book | https://books2read.com/u/bQEPkd | A couple of men find the memoirs for a war written in the margins of the old book. |
| The Old Man and the Dog | https://books2read.com/u/bMA78B | Several years of happiness come to the old man and the dog. |
| The Patron of the Arts | https://books2read.com/u/mgD7nx | A patron of the arts sponsors young writers while stealing their work. One writer learns how to skirt around the patron. |
| The Pecan Trees | https://books2read.com/u/bz8199 | A reporter visits a disaster-hit area after a hurricane. The economy is upside down. The leaves are brown on the pecan trees. |
| The Presley Brothers A Rock and Roll Fable | https://books2read.com/u/38ve07 | In a rock and roll fable, the Presley Brothers (identical twins) hold a charity event on nationwide television. |
| The Reign of the Introverts | https://books2read.com/u/49Ov9k | After a worldwide calamity, the introverts slowly rebuild civilization while finding a way for the extroverts to be water carriers and wood cutters. |
| The Room | https://books2read.com/u/brj1EW | A strong economy born of education flourishes in a small town due to the fabled magic of the room. |
| The Secret of Third Route, Mississippi | https://books2read.com/u/b5RlPO | Something mysterious is happening in a small town. An outsider sets out to discover the secret of Third Route, Mississippi. |
| The Shake Up | https://books2read.com/u/bx51OP | A second Great Depression hits the suburbs and an American middle-class family. |
| The Sun is Still Sitting | https://books2read.com/u/3LLnXM | Several generations after society collapses, survivors wander down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. One evening, they see in the distance that the sun is still sitting. |
| The Water Pistol Zombie Killers | https://books2read.com/u/4EdLjM | Two slackers survive the zombie apocalypse and wander through the rural south. They accidentally discover a way to stop zombies. |
| The Weather Master | https://books2read.com/u/3n95Ao | Two local politicians seek to benefit from disaster prosperity with the help of the weather master. |
| This Unending War | https://books2read.com/u/md26VE | Terrorism comes to America in the form of asymmetrical warfare as friends meet in a coffee shop to discuss this unending war. |
| Thomas Wilson Goes to School | https://books2read.com/u/471Y0q | An old man raises an orphaned boy. A teacher and principal recoil when meeting the old man. Nevertheless, Thomas Wilson goes to school. |
| Through the Looking Glass | https://books2read.com/u/471Y0q | A man crashes his vehicle in the desert. He staggers into a cave and travels to a far-away planet or is here merely peering through the looking glass. |
| Time Frozen | https://books2read.com/u/mKPd5V | For some reason, the sun isn’t moving. A kid working in a pastry shop gets to eat free food because time is frozen. |
| Too Much, Too Much, Just Enough | https://books2read.com/u/mY96kp | A young writer has a lesson in humility and using just enough tools to write his first great novel. |
| To Stay Behind | https://books2read.com/u/me8dxz | Something happened. People in the city are dying. The survivors decide to leave en masse for the countryside. Someone has to stay behind. And then the dying stops. |
| Tupperware and Lies | https://books2read.com/u/me8dxz | A boy is fed from the Tupperware of a friend’s mother. He learns he has the gift and curse of being able to hit small targets with a rifle. He lives a life of lies. |
| Two Walls and a Roof | https://books2read.com/u/bQEPwE | With no place to stay and nothing to do, a young man writes and writes well. The old trailer he lives in has but two walls and a roof. |
| Typing to the Future | https://books2read.com/u/4jGgvv | Scrounging through the ruins of the world, a man finds a typewriter and records what was to come. What caused the ruin. By typing future history, he remembers. |
| Unadvisable Enthusiasm: The Origin and Demise of Sports | https://books2read.com/u/mvL1G6 | Sports in America emerged from the carnage of the Civil War. Success brought its own demise. |
| Uncle Bill | https://books2read.com/u/brj1xM | A teenage boy bumps into a homeless man next to the store. He is kind to the man. The man later emerges as a long-lost uncle. |
| Uncle Hal and the Pen Name Scheme | https://books2read.com/u/baL6kP | A young man can write books, but they don’t sell. His Uncle Hal gives him a scheme for clever pen names. |
| Under Control Now | https://books2read.com/u/4jGgxk | Working alone with tangled barbed wire goes wrong as a young man plunges into unconscious turmoil. |
| Under the House | https://books2read.com/u/3JgEAv | A man restores water service to a home by trying the unknown and spending the day under the house. |
| Visiting the Farm Home | https://books2read.com/u/bMA7J7 | Convinced by his girlfriend to visit her family’s farm home, a man learns about her other side, her old boyfriend, and a brother who doesn’t fit in, either. |
| Walking with Angels | https://books2read.com/u/b6YR0x | The family dog goes on a daily walk with his owner and her baby. The dog, but not his owner, sees the daily interactions with angels. |
| What is Happening Down There | https://books2read.com/u/b6YR0x | A couple are housesitting in the high mountains for the winter. A man straggles into the isolated home. The husband leaves to discover what is happening down there. |
| What's New? | https://books2read.com/u/mVX89P | A technological breakthrough enables a man to absorb everything that is on the Internet in one night. He is greatly discouraged until a stranger asks, “What’s new?” |
| Will Write for Food | https://books2read.com/u/mlyLx7 | Want to one day write the great American novel, a struggling man helps high school students do their assignments as he will write for food. |
| With My Dad | https://books2read.com/u/38ve67 | A boy spends a long day in the Rocky Mountains hunting big game with his dad. |
| Wondering How You were Doing | https://books2read.com/u/md26RE | A man walks out of his home and lives with the homeless. He inspires others to help and serve. |
| Zombie Planes: Revised and Extended 2013 | https://books2read.com/u/3RDLeY | The zombie apocalypse hits. Several commercial airliners, their passenger cabins overrun with zombies, land at WWII runways in Nevada. The flight crews walk to a town and struggle to survive. |