new short stories from laura joyce moriarty
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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