A fairy tale account of the creation of the iconic landmark in Zanesville, Ohio - the "Y-Bridge City."

This is a collection of poetry, fiction and nonfiction stories which the Y-City Writers' Forum wrote for the Y-Bridge Arts Festival about the Y Bridge in Zanesville, Ohio.

Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory, warned friends in Congress that the frontier settlers of Ohio were too indigent and ignorant to form a constitution and government for themselves. This is the story of the men who proved him wrong. The author describes the beginning of Ohio through the lives of its founding fathers. Founding fathers include the thirty-five delegates to the convention held in Chillicothe in November, 1802, which decided that Ohio should become a state and then drafted its first constitution, as well as twenty additional men whose activities before and after the convention round out the story of the state's beginning. Revolutionary War veterans, Indian fighters, eastern aristocrats, Appalachian mountain men, and immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, and England combined their talents to lay the foundation for one of the greatest states in the nation.

The second installment in the Ghosts Never Die series takes place ten years before the journey the Wanderer embarked upon in the pages of 29 Palms: An American Odyssey for True Love. In The Bridge Between Two Rivers, you will sink into the long night and meet the voice within the shadows that whisper; the long, dead, and dreaded “Man in the Hat.” At the beginning upon the Wanderer’s return to the Y-Bridge City, he seeks a conference with his darker half to settle things between the two of them once and for all, but the friction persists. It’s a story fraught with struggle. From mischief to madness, the "Man in the Hat“ coaxes him closer towards the abyss at every turn. All is nearly lost until the Wanderer is driven back to the bridge, where it doesn’t matter which way you’re going there’s still two ways that you can turn.