Inn-by-the-Bye Stories - 23

About the Book

This is the last book in the series of Inn-by-the-Bye stories. It includes not only the final stories of the sequence but also a Prequel in that a related and prior set of stories, which had a different and unfulfilled purpose, provided groundwork for the eventual series itself. The Prequel stories are publicly available now for the first time at any scale. Among the principal stories, I found that these wee folk, the characters I developed and the way they evolved in my mind and on the page, served me well as a consideration of how I sensed things happening in the scriptural text at hand. I am glad to have the entire sweep of the project available now. The cover drawing is done by Eve Sullivan, the author’s granddaughter. The drawing is the artist’s conception of Anna, a young girl living in the Crossed Hills.

About the Author

I am a retired minister from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in the hills of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. I began writing these stories in August 1981as a part of my background reflection toward sermon preparation. I continued the discipline for nearly twenty-five years. Changes in my circumstances twenty-two years into the process eventually brought the series to an end. I came to refer to my stories a fairy tale exegesis. I now live in retirement with my wife of fifty-two years, two dogs and several cats.