R James Milos
Publications
Short Stories
When does desire overtake reality?
When does retirement end life?
The hidden power of belief.
Tribal accounts of an alien craft that landing in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan lures Peace Corps volunteer Greg Sobieski,to trekk into the foreboding snowy ridges to investigate. Afghans, Russians, and Islamic fundamentalists also search for the aliens and the secrets within The Kush.
It was forty-five years since Ronald Mazur saw his father; now he was traveling to see him for the last time. A road trip for the opportunity to stand over the Old Man's dead body for the closure he needed for all these years, was also a trip to a past he'd sought so long to forget.
How much can a person suffer? When is hope forgotten? Based on true events, Miles from Millersburg follows Union Corporal Elijah Willis as he enters into the realities of the Civil War. Captured after a useless bloody mission, imprisoned in a hell hole, and surviving a train wreck upon prisoner exchange, Corporal Willis is finally on his way to freedom aboard the SS Sultana which will become the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history. This story covers one man's journey through the complete horror of war and the enduring power of the human spirit.
In sleepy Long Hill Township in northern New Jersey, former members of Boy Scout Troop 186 are dying decades after the Troop disbanded. Are these deaths coincidences? Accidents? Or are they the result of something much more dubious? While the police are slow to make connections, reporter Steve Mazur, one of the remaining Scouts and a well-known conspiracy theorist, believes it is the work of one man and tries to convince the surviving troop members, the local police, and anyone that will listen. The police suspect Mazur but struggle to link him to the killings before more lives are lost.
As memories and stories from Troop 186 are recalled, a theme of boyish cruelty emerges. It is these recounted bullying memories that invoke a God-given mission to right what was wrong. If harmful acts are always intentional, revenge will surely correct the past and heal the present.