R. Merial Martin, an Exxon Marketing retiree, is the author of Deterrent, a fictional novel that takes place in year 2011 and ironically foretells all that is currently happening in the USA from the wars, to the failed economy, an African American becomes president, to increases in crime, especially in The Woodlands, but hopefully not to the level in the book that required a deterrent to crime.(At bookstores and on the Web). He enjoys hunting and bonding with his brothers and friends. He competes in regional senior bowling tournaments. He is an avid golfer and plays weekly with former oil company friends. He and his wife, Catherine, have been supporting members of Fellowship of the Woodlands Church for over fourteen years and active in ministries and organizations in The Woodlands and Houston areas since 1991.
Welford Street Miracles tells the stories of residents who lived In the 1100 block of Welford Avenue in “oil rich” Port Arthur, Texas from the Thirties thru the Eighties.
Welford Street Miracles is based on something you know something about. Something you experienced through the sense of life, of actual living, and that always makes for the best kind of writing. Its simplicity, its honesty in telling is evident not only in the lines but between the lines, and that’s when writing is at its best. You believe the miracle, and believing it you begin to see the characters and feel for them and hope for them spiritually. Into this group of people we have a main character. The prime subject wrought with a medical problem, brainwashed in his spiritual hierarchy, and skilled in the business world, whose struggles and accomplishments come to the forefront and whose encounter with a stranger ends in the greatest miracle of all.
POW Love Story is a story about an odyssey of Life of a German POW encamped in the USA during WWII. Raised by a German Prokurist and a Nurse, Frantz Gerber spent his late teens in Hitler's Army in the Arbeitsdienst building roads in Russia. At twenty he was in flying school and soon ordered to the front lines where he was captured and shipped to American POW camps. Back in Germany, Frantz dabbles in Jung movie bit parts and with his friends build a trapeze act that performs for Russians in East Berlin and then travels to South America to perform in many countries. Frantz becomes a film developing tycoon and beach playboy in Rio de Janerio while still remembering his promises. Selling his business and relocating to Los Angeles, he finds his ultimate love, Gloria, a cosmetologist to the stars from Beverly Hills. He produces the "letter” that contains his promises that he hid and held onto for over fifty years that is a catalyst to begin life all over and the search is on.
The WRIT is about Roger Jason Lee has been incarcerated since 1980. He has been refused parole on seven different occasions. In 2000 he was told that he would not be eligible to seek parole for seven years. He has maintained his innocence and because he has never admitted to attempted murder and expressed his regrets in a parole hearing, he remains in prison. His time in prison has been a model as he has learned skills that allow him to be certified as a Braille translator. He spends his days translating literary books and textbooks into Braille for the blind citizens of America.
He knows that if he gives in and states his guilt and remorse that he will have to spend even more time because, as the system works, the parole board would state that he was just trying to please them by saying what they want to hear, so he could be found suitable for parole. And also that he should have had remorse from the beginning resulting in the board needing more time to evaluate his sincerity. Had he been able to admit guilt pre-trial and get a plea bargain for eight years, he would have been out and, no doubt, building a good life for himself and his family.