Tree Fort Books is a small press offering thoughtful short stories and poetry.
Four Sports Stories: Exciting Tales for Any Athlete
My Biggest Game: A Baseball Story - A story about sportsmanship
Cannonball’s Run - The greatest cannonball dive in history
The Boy Who Hated Doing Everything - A lazy boy misses out on his favorite things
Mountain Cat Charlie Runs Again - The true(ish) story explaining why we see fireworks after baseball games
BONUS: Casey at the Bat
The Boring Barrowman Boys of Bowing Burrow. Seven brothers: Benny, Bobby, Brian, Bradley, Brett, Bruce, and Bartholomew. Add in Ramona and Richard, the mom and the dad, and you've got a pretty big family.
Ramona and Richard lived an adventurous life before the children showed up. They traveled the world and did amazing things. And boy-oh-boy, did those children show up! Mom and Dad are determined to be good parents and raise their children carefully and properly, and this takes some serious organization.
As childhoods go, the Barrowman boys are living a pretty boring life. When Bartholomew arrives, everything changes.
Will Ramona and Richard Barrowman find adventure again? How can they do this with such a big family?
Just $0.99 on Amazon Kindle.
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For those of you just coming on board -- Welcome! And thank you for your support.
The newest book is ready for you!
The Raging Giant Blue Goldfish: 22 Short Stories
https://www.amazon.com/Raging-Giant-Blue-Goldfish-Stories/dp/B0CRHZTBRV/
22 fun and gentle stories. Occasionally outlandish and often sentimental, these will evoke the days of old storytelling told in a new way. Heartwarming, thoughtful, and entertaining. Goldfish, cats, turtles, funny little ghosts (and a couple scary ones), baseball, dogs, tea, amazing kids, and terrible ice cream. And a couple of favorites freshly retold.
Learn how some jet-set adventurers re-find their groove with their family. Discover what happened to the oversized fish in the river. Find out how one boy's hope changes everything. Learn the real story about the ghosts in your house, the greatest dog in the world, and why there are fireworks after baseball games. And more.
Mountain Cat Charlie Runs Again
How to Help the Ghosts Who Haunt Your House
Hunting With Elizabeth
The Raging Giant Blue Goldfish
The Green Forest
Richard’s Magnificent Olfactics
A Taste of Heaven
An Old Can Found at Andy Winnoway’s Place
Why Four Sheep Had Their Hooves on Backwards
Some Days Are Better Than Others
That One Kid
Mr. Smith and His Delicious Ice Cream
The Crematorium Ghost Cloud
My Biggest Game: A Baseball Story
The Boy Who Hated Doing Everything
Escape from Hicklebirkle Manor
The Ghost of Old Suwanee
Cannonball’s Run
The Boring Barrowman Boys of Bowing Burrow
The Legend of Jack, The Candlestick Jumper
The Princess and the Pea
Stone Soup
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The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
― Julia Cameron (author of "The Artist's Way")
Mine and Plato's books. I'm flattered, but I don't think a giant goldfish compares to Plato's Republic. Thanks Jacki Cser!
A reader and friend showed me what she received today. She lives in southeastern Iowa and these books can help keep her cozy this winter. Two books to challenge her mind and the other to lighten her heart.
Need your heart lightened? There's a copy waiting for you. Grab one today at Amazon when you pick up "Summa Theologica" by Thomas Aquinas.
When you buy a copy, you are helping me make the next book better. You are supporting art, writing, and books all at once.
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The Raging Giant Blue Goldfish: 22 Short Stories.
Announcing a New Book! Big news. Anthony Trendl, Writer has written a wonderful collection of short stories.
The Raging Giant Blue Goldfish: 22 Short Stories
22 fun and gentle stories. Occasionally outlandish and often sentimental, these will evoke the days of old storytelling told in a new way. Heartwarming, thoughtful, and entertaining. Goldfish, cats, turtles, funny little ghosts (and a couple scary ones), baseball, dogs, tea, amazing kids, and terrible ice cream. And a couple of favorites freshly retold.
Learn how some jet-set adventurers re-find their groove with their family. Discover what happened to the oversized fish in the river. Find out how one boy's hope changes everything. Learn the real story about the ghosts in your house, the greatest dog in the world, and why there are fireworks after baseball games. And more.
Mountain Cat Charlie Runs Again
How to Help the Ghosts Who Haunt Your House
Hunting With Elizabeth
The Raging Giant Blue Goldfish
The Green Forest
Richard’s Magnificent Olfactics
A Taste of Heaven
An Old Can Found at Andy Winnoway’s Place
Why Four Sheep Had Their Hooves on Backwards
Some Days Are Better Than Others
That One Kid
Mr. Smith and His Delicious Ice Cream
The Crematorium Ghost Cloud
My Biggest Game: A Baseball Story
The Boy Who Hated Doing Everything
Escape from Hicklebirkle Manor
The Ghost of Old Suwanee
Cannonball’s Run
The Boring Barrowman Boys of Bowing Burrow
The Legend of Jack, The Candlestick Jumper
The Princess and the Pea
Stone Soup
Happy Halloween from our tree fort to yours.
See 's story set in a cemetery. Two ghosts have a little chat.
"When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”
—Chapter 4, "The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill"
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
It reminds me of a famous C. S. Lewis quote. Who knows which one.
That's what I'm reading. How about you?
It's a fact that chocolate chip cookies help you write well. will tell you that donuts give you strength, but we aren't looking for strength in this case.
I can tell you cookies, specifically chocolate chip, help you write. They give you necessary creative energy, help you think of big words, and the musicality of chocolate chip cookies comes through in everything you write. If there's that perfect balance of cookie and chip, your story will be interesting and exciting.
If you eat enough cookies at once, you can also see new characters and places. Be careful with that. You don't want to travel too much while sitting in your tree fort. That could get dangerous.
Underscore. It’s the story of a man wandering through a homeless shelter looking for himself. He’s everywhere and nowhere, and unsure what to make of what he sees. He’ll tell you, though, with certainty, that he’s the real deal.
Available for pre-order, with delivery expected May 30. Buy a copy today. By Tree Fort Books author Anthony Trendl.
Releases May 30
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This is "Before Good Friday." A few years before Good Friday, Jesus found a few fishermen on a beach and called them to follow him. They did.
I wrote this poem this thinking about Matthew 4:18 "Come, follow me, "Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."
First published in Decision Magazine in July 2006.
Trust the cookie.
A tree fort for $1.25 million?
"I thought we would be done in six to eight months, and it took two years," owner Mike Fitzgerald said of the effort it took to complete the treehouse.
Here's a quick poem.
Where's Froggy? Can you see the gray tree frog? Click like if you can.
As found in my back woods.
Each tree fort is down to Earth.
Deep in the Hundred Acre wood... Beyond where Tigger's family is from, farther than Eeyore's house, passed the land of Heffalumps -- something insidious. Even Christopher Robin won't imagine its existence. The woods aren't lovely, but they are dark and deep. Whose woods these are I think I know. May you never meet him.
This tree fort is not in the trees, but it is of the trees. Found in some woods a couple hundred meters from the Chattahoochee River, I could not help but wonder who built it. Some industrious teenagers? A person without a standard home? Or a beaver with an over ambitious sense of construction?
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Far from the trees, the water which feeds them flows. Tree forts follow.
People say 'nothing is impossible', but I do nothing every day.
“The Foolish Almanak For Anuthur Year” by Theodor Rosyfelt
(Not A. A. Milne as many suspect)
Mushrooms in the forest undergrowth wait for glory.
A tree calls them skyward
until the sun burns out their life.
"People of Humanity, I come to you from the Kingdom of Frog. I am Lord Swampbottom, and I am the purveyor and prince of this province. I bring greetings and a warning. Mosquitoes are coming. We cannot eat them all. Be ready."
The Joro Spider is all over northeastern Georgia. Your tree forts have them (take a look). Their stings equal a bee's and, unless you are allergic, no lasting harm. Gorgeous, complex orb webs. If you like these, head to JoroSpider.com and join our Facebook group, Joro Spider Appreciation.
Ever notice these on the way up to your ? Cicada shell. Magicicada. May, or may not be Brood X. Found on an oak tree in my backyard.
Copperhead snakes love them. So, if you hear cicadas, watch out.
Oh Deer! When scouting a good tree fort location, you might find a new friend. This is in my neighborhood. Any interesting animals in your yard?
Where do you read? Palm trees? Tree forts in palm trees might be difficult. Reading while leaning against one below might be a better plan.
Reading brings friends unexpected. This moth decided to stop by my world.
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
-Matthew 2:9
King James Version
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In the Deep South, the trees are not silent. They have a heartbeat, but it doesn't sound like a human heartbeat. The rhythm is steady; its pulse grinds metronomically as it waits for mate... Or a meal. You've thought about staying in the tree fort at night. Just a night. O! To listen to the placidity of nature's gentle breath... To be embraced by the goodness of fresh air... To be absorbed into the darkness of the night, swallowed by the seen and unseen. #natural #nature #naturelovers #horror #trees
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