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The Seagull Keeper – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Laurie Nevers, a keeper of seven pet seagulls, has a visit from two witness warriors out knocking on doors. One is Proffery, a young man who falls into flirt with her as he tells her about Jesus. The other is Flanders, a young man whose focus stays on Christ as he tells her about God. The three get together in the aviary, a red barn specially designed for seagulls. And the devil and the Lord fight over her soul there among the seagulls in this aviary.

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August 3, 2024

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The Eccentric Girl – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Windy Stormy, a feisty and mercurial eighteen-year-old girl, has a personality and character that is like unto a windstorm. Her most treasured possessions are all of her odd and unique collections. But she does not have peace in her life. She needs the Prince of Peace—Jesus—to become her personal Saviour in order for her to find that peace in her life. Will she choose Jesus, or will she choose a brand new collection to live her life for?

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July 26, 2024

Read more about the article The Trick-Or-Treat Witch – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

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The Trick-Or-Treat Witch – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Flanders and his girlfriend Kyrie Kay Kendricks, grown-ups in their twenties, are going trick-or-treating together in eastern Green Bay on Halloween 1990. They are both lost in their sins. Flanders’s Halloween costume is a girl’s cheerleader uniform. Kyrie’s Halloween costume is that of a trick-or-treat witch. And they keep coming to houses of residents who share Bible verses to them about the Son of God and about believing in the Son of God. They become convicted of their sins. And they must both make their decision about Christ. Will they say, ‘No’ to God? Will they say, ‘Yes’ to God? Time is running out.

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July 20, 2024

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The Shetland Sheepdog Keeper – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

The Shetland Sheepdog Keeper, Miss Flaurie Shelty Boroughs, is a mistress to a family of seven Shelties. Her Shetland Sheepdogs’ names are “Tea,” and “Coffee,” and “Trilby” and “Shelby” and “Welby” and “Colby” and “Alby.” Today Flaurie is attired in a fairy princess bridal gown with her Shelties and awaiting a groom to come walking up alongside County Trunk U. God told her that this day he would send a groom her way on this road. This groom must pass God’s tests with three questions posed by the bride. The first four men who come walking down County U all fail the tests. Will there come a fifth young man who can say, “Yes,” to all three queries?

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July 15, 2024

Read more about the article The Prom Dress Girl – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

drifting dunes at the Baltic Sea nearby Leba/ Poland, on a sunny afternoon

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The Prom Dress Girl – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Flanders and Proffery begin life on their own in a cabin up north as roommates and best friends and colleagues. Flanders now hopes to adopt a pet Collie whom he will name ‘Shelby.’ Likewise Proffery now seeks a pet German Shepherd whom he will name ‘Trilby.’ Down the road from their cabin the men discover an idyllic sand dunes with a beautiful prom dress girl in green. Her name is ‘Lisa “Gravel” Dryad.’ They fall for her. She tells them all about Christ. But they reject Christ for the cause of dogs. And she must lead them to Christ for the cause of God.

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February 15, 2024

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The Classy Snazzy Girl – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Flanders Nickels suddenly discovers a girl in his high school who is dressed in blue jeans and long-sleeved blue shirt and vest, and he falls for her instantly. Her name is ‘Se Marier Clark,’ and she is as pretty as her outfit. But her presence conflicts with two wars against himself that he is fighting in his head. And he must keep his mind off of her. And he most certainly must not ask her out. But she kind of likes him. And he gives in and goes on a date with her at home, and she goes on to share with him her wisdom as a born-again believer. And his two wars are resolved in his private life to the glory of Christ.

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February 9, 2024

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The Maillot Girlfriend – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

The lonely Christian man Flanders Nickels prays that he can go shopping with a girlfriend and buy her a maillot. Lo, a young woman whom he knows from work comes into his life; she is pretty, but she is not a Christian. Her name is ‘Heidi Antron Rooks.’ On their first date, much to his wildest dreams, they go to a department store and she lets him buy her a one-piece swimsuit that is white and is all full of black letters of the alphabet randomly throughout. Lo, his new maillot girlfriend tests his Christian propriety. Will he stay true to Christ and Christian values? Is she going to ruin his testimony as a believer? What will he do about her lost soul?

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January 30, 2024

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The Girl Wrestler – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Tracy Enterprises, an all-star wrestling lady, has a boyfriend, Flanders Nickels, who wrote a novel about sticks that lived. The girl wrestler is the number one contender of women’s professional wrestling. And the writer loves to bat sticks together in make-believe of a fight between them. She is saved; he is unsaved. And the women’s champion of all-star wrestling, the woman called “The Giantess from Parts Unknown,” comes in vengeance upon them just as Tracy is about to lead Flanders to salvation in his back forty.

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January 21, 2024

Read more about the article The China Doll of a Woman—A Sequel – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Purebred irish red setter standing on a background of on the beach by the sea on a Sunny day.

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The China Doll of a Woman—A Sequel – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

The China Doll of a Woman—A Sequel”: “Xiao Xiu Xiong, the China doll of a woman, and Flanders Nickels have been girlfriend-and-boyfriend-in-Christ for ten years. Xiao buys herself a Katarina Witt blue ice skating dress for herself to put on every day. She wants to learn how to figure skate. But she finds out that God does not will her to skate, but rather to become a mistress to a pet dog instead. Flanders wants to get a dog, but God does not wish that for him, but rather to buy a filing cabinet instead. In a step of faith, not knowing why God would have him do so, Flanders buys a wooden two-drawer filing cabinet for a time in the future. And God begins to work in the lives of the China doll of a woman and her boyfriend.

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January 14, 2024

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The China Doll of a Girl – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Flanders Nickels, a man with a dog, thinks himself happy with Chartres, his pet Saluki. But suddenly he comes to understand his own mortality. And, pondering death to come someday, he loses his happiness. Along comes a China doll of a girl, a pretty Oriental bride. Her name is Xiao Xiu Xiong, and she is a born-again Christian. She needs to give him hope in Christ. And he needs to become a believer like herself so that death will not be his end.

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January 1, 2024

My collection of Christian short stories, numbering one hundred in all, I affectionately call ‘My Canon of Horsetails and Cattails.’ And my collection of Christian novels, numbering fifteen in all, I affectionately call ‘My Canon of Griffins and Unicorns.’ And my pen name—Flanders Nickels—I came up with from nowhere some time back in the mid-1980’s. And my writing ministry for God I happily call ‘My Canon Ministry.’ I use only the King James Version Bible. And I am a fundamental Baptist. I hope that you have fun reading for free on this website. And I myself became a born-again believer in Christ in a most wondrous time around Christmas in 1990 in a soul-changing twelve days which I fondly call ‘My Twelve Days of Christmas.’ It is written, ‘”…, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,…” Acts 16:31.’