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    New Short Stories from Laura Joyce Moriarty

    The Italian Pearl & The Irish Peasant

    This is a story taken from the lineage of the O'Malley family in "The Secrets of Nine Irish

    Sons".

    Around 300 B.C., a handsome Roman general, nephew of the reigning Caesar, is sent off to

    battle pirates and bring home treasure for the glory of Rome. Along the way, he comes across

    an extremely unusual Irish ship crewed by both male and female pirates, a bad omen as far as

    his crew is concerned . . . and an unlikely source of any kind of treasure. Nonetheless, the

    general is instantly smitten by the ships beautiful captain and orders his reluctant crew to

    pursue the strange vessel. Despite disaster, his quest continues until the general is taken

    prisoner by an unfriendly King. When the King turns him over to an ugly peasant woman, our

    hero continues to pine for his lost love. Both prisoner and caretaker live in fantasy worlds

    where they yearn for what they cannot have until a shocking discovery changes everything for

    both of them. Laura Joyce Moriarty

    The Death of Reiley Freeze

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    Reiley Freeze was an extremely heroic, kind, and popular character with readers in

    the Trilogy, The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons. His instant charisma was evident with

    everyone he knew. He was fascinating, and yet, he never met very many people---he

    was always on the move.

    Reiley was the envy of every man who ever met him including his own brother. He

    didnt understand why men disliked him because he didnt realize that he made

    choices with a power that many men lacked---the internal fortitude to set aside his

    own desires for the sake of others. He stayed completely loyal to his goals---to provide

    a permanent life of security for the generations who would follow his own. He made

    every decision as closely aligned with the worlds most valued and yet difficult

    necessity---the one that says good men must conquer the evil ones while not becoming

    stained with sin and guilt--- the only way for a man to become a real hero.

    Even more unlikely, the men who disliked him out of jealousy, principally because he

    was so admired by women, couldnt see the truth. They saw his charm, but yet, he

    held no pretense or swagger. The reason women longed for him was because of his

    way---his way with words---his way with a smile---his way with a helping hand, and most

    importantly, his way with his goodness. Laura Joyce Moriarty

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    Brigid's DilemmaAfter Rosemary OConnor finds her abusive husband sneaking into her young

    daughters bedroom, she spends the next few years physically fighting him off to protect her

    beautiful Brigid. In the end, Rosemary saves her from her father, but is unable to shield Brigid

    from a ravaging stranger, a man nearly twice her age, who uses the young girls desperatedesire for love to seduce her.

    Once she learns her daughter is pregnant, as if tempting fate, Rosemary suffers a final

    altercation. She sends Brigid away while secretly condemning her husband to prison.

    Rosemarys scheme was to save Brigid from a pitiless society that oppressed unwed

    mothers during the early days of the 1900s. But she frightens her in the process.

    As a result, vestiges of her fear and caution keeps her desire for a husband perpetually

    fettered---and then each time she is ready to fall in love, fate intervenes. Laura Joyce Moriarty

    The Mission of Alexis Dering

    Alexis Dering was born to a wealthy, but brutally sinister British family in Devonshire,

    England. Yet, he remained kind, curious, and despite his baneful opinion of himself..

    The shy boy meets an unlikely friend, a young Irishman who feels destined to become a

    missionary in a foreign land as soon as he can finish his education and become an ordained

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    priest. Alexis loves his friend but continually resists to be seduced into his chosen life as a

    priest. Instead, he relentlessly tempt Fitz into a safe, mutually beneficial life of privilege and

    comfort. Their unexplainable intransigence strange effect has a lasting effect on each of them

    with remarkably prophetic outcomes. Laura Joyce Moriarty