Free eBooks by Bird, Darrel

A humorous glance into the macabre as Chet Wolford, Hobo extraordinaire, blows into Chicago’s east side looking for a free meal. Oh, he finds a free meal all right, but he runs up against something his worthless life has not prepared him for and he begins to hanker for the old familiar bridges to sleep under and even perhaps a dead rabbit to cook up. more...

A man who suffers from depression moves his family to Mist Oregon.As he fights depression and Desperate for work he finds a job in the timber industry.Life is not yet through dealing him blows as he tries to measure up to his new job. This story perhaps was born in this authors own depression and the memory of it. more...

A fishing boat captain finds what is important in life when his boat sinks. He had promised his wife he would stop fishing when the fishing ran out, but the El Nino brought the tuna close to shore and he rigs out for one last trip. The waters of the cold Pacific hold him in a death grip as the coast guard searches for him. more...

An Adventist teen who finds herself pregnant. She is soon faces the threat of an imposed abortion which she does not believe in, and which she swears will not take place, darkness envelopes her until she finds an unexpected friend in her aging next door neighbor. She flees to a home for girls and finds her life work as she encounters a beaten and bruised teen who is to be her roommate. more...

A proud young man thinks he has the world by the tail until he is paralyzed from the waist down from a car crash on the San Diego freeway. His plans for the future he thought he had are turned up-side down, he resorts to alcohol to feed his bitter soul and finds an unexpected friend in a co-worker who struggles to pull him out of his darkest days. more...

A boy and his dog named Dawg, accompanies his father to work in the woods, disaster strikes hard and fast as a mishap leaves them both injured in a dark animal filled forest. more...

Two Children and their yellow Labrador ‘Scoot’ take up with an old farmer by the name of Gil Bateman who lives just down the road, When they go missing the sheriff suspects the farmer of taking them, but Gil Bateman has his own ideas as they frantically search for the two missing children. more...

A woman joins a cult and almost loses her husband over it as she learns what this marriage vow means. She is desperate and fearful as she attempts to reclaim her marriage to the man that she loves. more...

A teen goes wild when his father is killed in a bar room brawl, he causes the death of the man responsible, then takes the life of another men, he embraces the biker gang until he attempts to steal the bike of an immoveable Vietnam vet. more...

A business executive is transferred from his New York office to a southern town in Georgia, his life and his marriage are off track when he has breakfast with a prostitute who is destined to change his life. more...