ATONIA'S WRITINGS, ETC.

NEW ! ATONIA'S PICTURE CREATIONS

PAGE ONE: CHRISTMAS CROWES

PAGE TWO ,etc.: NON-CHRISTMAS CREATIONS

RIDE THE TIDE

   Tom Cox, a Russell-based character, meets a woman as she throws something she

   hates into the sea.

 

ISLAND STATE OF MIND

   Tully Cunningham, a Russell-based character, in a romantic adventure set in Savannah.

 

A DATE IN MEXICO

   A Ben Wade story that literally starts with a bang!

 

THE CAPTAIN'S HOUSE

  A Jack Aubrey love story spanning across 186 years of time

 

MORE THAN A MOMENT

  After the war, Lachlan comes to California to find a girl he'd met in England.

 

A CUP OF TEA LEAVES

  Billy Seward, a Russell-based character, steals a woman's pay envelope and ends up

  with more than he bargained for.

 

THE DREAM

  A Sir Robert/Robin story with a present-day young woman

 

THE VISION SHARED

  A Russell-based Indian tale

 

IN TIME OF FOG AND SPIES

  Captain Aubrey, wounded, encounters a beautiful female spy.

 

PURPLE RIDING HOOD AND BEN WOLF

 A classic fairy tale retold with our favorite outlaw

 

CINDERFELLA

 Maximus and his 3 stepbrothers, Jack, John, and Jeffrey

 

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

A fractured fairy tale starring Sid in the title role, along with Skinner, Colin, Arthur, and Steve

 

THE BLUE LIGHT

 Terry and Bud in a retelling of the tale

 

HOW BUD CAME TO BE IN THE BLUE LIGHT

An original prequel to "The Blue Light"

 

THE WELL

An original fairy tale about a Prince and the lady he sees in a well

 

THE SAVING OF ROBERT KINSTON

A Russell-based character in a truly moving story about a man terribly lost.

 

THE HEALING OF ROBERT KINSTON

Robert's story continues in an equally moving 10-chapter storyline.

 

IT WAS A COLD DAY IN OCTOBER

Five original Russell-based characters in an exciting story of intrigue and danger.

 

WELL-TRAVELED ROADS

A gentle "what if" love story with a Russell-based character named Ian Whitecap.

 

A TOUCH OF GENIUS

A 3-part John Nash interlude with some interesting results

 

THE FIFTH SEASON

What if Ben Wade actually DID ride up to your porch one clear, intense day?

 

LOOKING FOR MY FATHER

The sequel to "The Fifth Season" about Ben's son at age 15

 

THE MAN FROM THE FAR SIDE OF THE LAKE

Meet Brett Houser, an intensely Russell-like character in a bittersweet love story

 

VIRTUAL REALITY

Just when it looks like the complex has been shut down, Sid manages to escape...again...into the real world.

 

INTO THE VOID The direct sequel to "Virtual Reality"

 

PLAYING IT OUT

What will happen in Cal's life now the Collins story has been printed?

 

SUMMER HEAT

Davin Hart, an original Russell-based character, having left the small Southern town of his youth and finding

success as an author, returns for his father's funeral.

 

HOUSE OF FOUR SEASONS

COMPLETE INDEX FOR HOUSE STORIES

A multi-part story with a mystical house, where loves may come, but only for a season.

Who would you choose and what would you do if you found yourself actually falling in love?

Subsequently continued in many, many chapters with what comes down to the four main

characters.

 

THE LAST HOUSE ON BEACH ROAD

Trevor Collier, a Russell-based character, buys a lovely beach house in NC...but...it comes with

an uninvited resident who changes his life forever.

 

ATLANTIC CROSSING

Two couples, one in 1947, one in 1967, cross the Atlantic aboard the Queen Mary. What is the mysterious

connection between them? (With both Alex and Steve.)

 

A NEW VINTAGE

A stand-alone Max Skinner tale, set a year after Fanny's death.

 

ON THE EDGE

Alex Ross, a mysterious, beautiful woman on the run, a dangerous chase

 

CANYON DIABLO

A story that’s based on true events that happened in the town of Canyon Diablo in Arizona in the late 1800’s. These events

are loosely used to incorporate the Russell characters: Ben Wade, East Driscoll, Cort, Egan

 

TRADE WINDS

An adventure of love thwarted, identities unknown, and travels across the seas

 

THE GOLDEN ORB

David Blaine, a Russell-based character, in a tale of mystery, intrigue, and danger set in British Hong Kong

 

A THOUSAND PATHS

Sequel to The Golden Orb, with David Blaine now Blaine Davidson

 

NO WAVE WITHOUT WIND

Sequel to A Thousand Paths

 

IN A DESERT PLACE

Sequel to No Wave Without Wind

 

FAIR WINDS

The sequel to Trade Winds, continues with Henry turning 21 and Jack taking him to Grenada

 

PISTACHIO FOR PAULIE

A character strongly based on Alex Ross, set in 1956 Georgia at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

 

THE CHRONICLE By Atonia Walpole

A collection of interviews conducted by Mr. Thomas Whittaker of the San Francisco Chronicle on the capture of Ben Wade.

 

THE TRAIN TO OBLIVION

Ed Hoffman, Max Skinner, and Hando are all on a train heading from London toward Scotland when suddenly, the tracks

behind and in front of the car they're on...aren't there anymore.

 

ARROGANTLY SHABBY

Cal goes to South Carolina to interview the wife of a just-killed Senator.

 

 

 

 

 

**ALSO VISIT THE GLEN...HERE, WHERE ATONIA IS WRITING

    RICHIE ROBERTS, ANDY, HANDO, KIM, AND A FASCINATING NEW

    RUSSELL-BASED CHARACTER, TRAVIS McGEE

 

 


Poem by Atonia 2-26-2010

On Starting a New Story in Winter

I am a slug in my comfortable stretchable clothes

I watch the street from my window, neighbors coming and going

I am content and on my desk is a rose

And that rose takes me places I am knowing

In my mind. From my fingertips the words flow,

Knitting together words of love and places I’ve not been

Except in my imagination.  Come with me now

To that sea island to the sand, sea and wind

Where my imagination has taken me without remorse

Away from the cold and leafless trees I’ve set my course.

He’s there now just off shore. I’ve glimpsed the white

Of his sails, the tall masts and the deck where he stands.

He does not know me yet but he will as I write

His coming to my adopted lands.

 

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