Everybody's Got a Story: Short Stories from South Alabama

By Steven H. Stokes and M.D. STOKES

A collection brimming with humor and wisdom, Everybodys Got a Story includes eight autobiographical vignettes from the life of Steven H. Stokes, MD. After his parents' divorce at age nine, a young Stokes goes to live with his grandparents on their farm in rural southern Alabama. It is this tight-knit community and quickly fading way of life that serves as the backdrop for many of the stories in this collection. Celebrating a time when small family farms, with their rows of peanuts, corn, and cotton, dotted the landscape, Stokes shows readers how life with his dysfunctional family teaches him to find humor in hardship and the will to succeed in the face of adversity. Through stories from his childhood, his service with the United States Marine Corps, his courtship and marriage to his wife, and his thirty-year career as a radiation oncologist, Stokes demonstrates how some of life's greatest gifts come in surprising events-and how infinitely precious life is, as well as the need to treasure relationships before we lose them. All proceeds from this book will be given to the Good Samaritan Cancer Fund to help people with cancer obtain pain medication and transportation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1530500346
• ISBN13: 9781530500345
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"