Welby Cox

I was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1942 and was raised in a Catholic orphanage at Anchorage, Kentucky. It was a good place where I met my mentor, a nun from Boston who taught me the love of reading and encouraged me to write. It was also there where my Big Brother gained permission to take me by train to Key West, Florida where I met our host who asked me what my favorite thing was to do. I told him basketball and reading. He responded, "if you want to read a good book...write it! Ernest Hemingway was our host. I wrote my first book at twenty-five, "I'll Love You Tomorrow" which was a fictionalized version of my experience at the orphanage, later the movie "Annie" would use this title for the feature song sung by Annie. At 76, I have written forty books including; fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenplays, and plays. As the father of six wonderful children and eighteen grandchildren, I feel blessed to have lived in such a blessed place and to have utilized abilities to overcome social adversity as so many others have done before me. My greatest work of life is not the many books I have written but the beautiful children I share with two wives. Today, I walk a little slower, I am working hard to get my college degree, not because I need it but because I want it to broaden my capability to know and to understand a changing world.

Donald J. Trump: The Trumpster

Politics 

This is a book of quasi-historical fiction which begins when a United States Senator kicks off his campaign for the presidency at the historic Fancy Farm Picnic in Western Kentucky in 2016. On that day a terrible storm would brush through the small community but the elderly senator stood his ground, though all other speakers have long since left for dry conditions in front of a roaring fire. His campaign rhetoric is straight out of a populist game book and he challenges all others certain to join the fight to elevate campaign speeches to include a number of social welfare and health care reform. The elderly senator stays through the rain and cold wind and the next day he begins to feel the effects of his age while a cold settles into his chest. Doctors do all they can but he is too weak to ward off the sickness and in the night he passes away. What happens next is nothing short of a dramatic move in which his will installs his campaign manager as his heir apparent, transferring to her all his assets and his blessings to carry on. Malcomb Chancey becomes the first Jewish woman to contest the presidential primary against Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

But for a Penis...She Would Be King

Historical Fiction 

​Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor Of Aquitaine (1122-1204) was a major figure in the middle ages and a prominent figure in women’s history. Born the Duchess of Aquitaine, she would eventually become Queen of England and France. The eldest daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine. She inherited her father’s lands in 1137, and married Louis VII of France that same year. The marriage was annulled in 1152. She then married Henry II of England, bearing him eight children including sons Richard (the Lion-Hearted) and two other sons who would all become king. But this wasn’t enough for Henry, since she supported another son whom Henry hated and feared, Henry put her in prison where she stayed for sixteen years. This is the story of a powerful woman, who, “But for a Penis... Would Have Been King! But the story doesn’t end there because we are wanting to juxtapose women of the Middle Ages who made a significant difference in the manner in which they used their sex to get what they wanted. Enter now, Saint Joan of Arc, a virgin teen who followed iconic voices of the Catholic church urging her to lead a French army against the English. Saint Joan of Arc utilized a strident voice which willfully placed her at the head of a French force to defeat the English only to be burned at the stake as a heretic, but still a virgin!

The Other Side of Lincoln

Historical Fiction

My Great-Great Grandfather, Electus Dominus Lanham joined the Federals at age fifteen and when the great Civil War started he remained with the newly organized Union Army. He quickly rose to a trusted rank and became a double spy, responsible for among other things the whereabouts of John Brown which ultimately led to Brown's death. Grandpa Lanham left a journal which provided a great deal of insight as to why this war happened and the players who focus the ugly picture on why 600,000 men and women would die...not to free the slaves but to maintain the rights of the states to certain functions outlined in the Constitution as well as a protest to the heavy-handed taxation of southern goods and crops shipped to Europe. The taxes used by the north to build a manufacturing economy.

By itself, the Emancipation Proclamation didn't free the slaves, but it did change the character and course of the war. Abraham Lincoln's contemporary critics and some modern historians point to the fact that Lincoln freed only the slaves of the Confederacy, not those in the border states or the seven territories retaken by Union forces; as one newspaper of the day comments, "The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the Union."
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Lincoln's position was that under the war powers he could legally free only those slaves in the rebel-held territory; it is up to Congress, or the states, to address the question of universal emancipation. Interestingly, and to date, unexplainable...is that the abolitionist voices heard the loudest, such as; Fredrick R. Douglas and William Lloyd Garrison welcomed and subscribed to Lincoln's decision...not a word was heard as to when the Congress would free the slaves which it did by a narrow margin on January 31, 1865.

Genesis…A Farewell To Reason

Historical Fiction

It did not matter to Senator Lang Elliott that religious fundamentalist had decided to make his life a daily living hell, but the senator took umbrage when these pious, self-serving folks, took it upon themselves to murder a member of his crew and steal his prized stallion in return for a King’s ransom. The funds he knew to be utilized by this extreme group to develop propaganda to evangelize and offset the liberal media contaminating young minds and Christian soldiers. They would stop at nothing and had murdered once! 

I’ll Love You Tomorrow

Historical Fiction

At the turn of the century, there were many orphans, due in part to the fact that abortion was illegal, so women who had been indiscriminate or had other issues gave their children to the Catholics to raise in an orphanage. The Nuns were good to the children, and the children enjoyed three wholesome meals each day, wore clean clothes and slept in a warm bed with sixty other boys in a dormitory. But when the good Nuns had to deal with five hundred boys, there was no time for love. I'll Love You Tomorrow follows Buddy Quinn and his search for how love might feel. It is a heart warming story which explores sexual abuse when encountered by Buddy and how he dealt with his own sexuality. The subject is handled with all due respect which should be accorded the subject without addressing it but addressing it by loving parents is essential in a society which has gone viral on the entire subject of child porn; child sexual abuse, slaves and other unspeakable vulgarities which are being forced on sensitive children.

Poor Banished Children of Eve

Historical Fiction

Some people kill you with a joke, the colonel would just kill you. He was born in a canebreak by an old mama lion who abandoned him before he was weaned. He became a thing of nature and being a warrior was natural, so he found brutality in WWI and as a soldier-of-fortune, he was shot five times, died and during which time he had an aberration in which he was rebuked as having died. He was informed by a small garish woman with a monkey on her shoulder that he wasn't dead...just gone! He swore to do better, to become a good person and he chose to recuperate in British Columbia where he could hunt and fish, drink Scotch Whiskey and play poker. But death followed the colonel, his guide died in the icy waters and the colonel was arrested for murder. But there was salvation in a romance with a quirky female who only ate on the floor and slept there as well. She also insisted upon licking him! Follow the colonel as he fights the system and discovers a son he never knew.

Portrait of Mass Murder: In the Name of Expansionism

History
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The following is a story, historically documented in a journal recording of my great-great-great-great grandmother Bartheny Lanham, born in County Cork, Ireland and came to America to marry a man named Finney Simpson, a self-taught veterinarian, settling in Western New York. Believe it or not, each time I have read the journal of the dear little Irish grannie, I dream of her as though she and I are seated at the kitchen table having a sip of Irish whiskey while she puffs on her tiny corn cob pipe. This, then is my Grannie B.'s story as the Narrator in her own hand with apologizes for the dialect but have made the translation for the ease of the reader.

Somewhere a Tree Grows: With Nourishing by a Lawyer

Social Fiction 

​He was the smartest lawyer in New York at the mid 20th century. He was the senior partner in the largest law firm. He was well intended and betrothed into a power family. He was destined to fail! She was a simple girl! If girls or women are ever simple? She was very shy and withdrawn. She lived in a small cottage with her quirky but highly intelligent inventor father. Her mother had died at a young age...or so she was informed. What began as an innocent requirement by a law firm for a stenographer/typist would have a finality uncommon to most interludes. Would she meet with an ending which would send him to the electric chair or would he prove it to be an accident? Or was this nothing more than a dream fulfilling her own doubts of her self-confidence which often led her to stay late at night on the job to perfect the job for which she was hired but could never complete to her satisfaction. Come with me as we see her caring for an elderly father, brilliant but uncaring about the feelings of his only child, caring only for his work and the unrealistic dreams of accomplishment. Into the mix, a powerful lawyer sees the potential of the patents and covets them through a union with the daughter. Could he use his legal knowledge and his money to fund a corporation bringing the patents to fruition or will it be more advantageous to witness the old man's demise?

The Day John Fitzgerald Kennedy Past

Historical Fiction

The Day John Fitzgerald Kennedy Past is a book about the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The book covers the rush to judgment by President Lyndon Johnson in order to quell a potential storm by the media and others who suspected a government conspiracy. The case against Lee Harvey Oswald seemed to be open and shut but who was the stranger who entered the Texas Book Depository dressed as a police officer? Why was the testimony of several observers of those on the grassy knoll sealed? How could the Warren Commission or any other sane person believe the "pristine bullet," theory? What was Oswald doing in New Orleans and what was his connection to Cuba? These and other revealing facts now corroborated through the release of millions of pages of historical documents give reason and purpose to the existence of a CIA cover-up.

The Little Bighorn: A Sequel to Portrait of Mass Murder

Historical Fiction

​Back in the 19th century, there was an ugly mood among Caucasian leaders to kill any thing red. It was then that Grant said to Custer, "show no mercy, take the troops assigned to your command and pursue the Indian, its squaws and children to the end of life...wipe them from the face of the earth." Somewhere a voice whispered a special message to Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and other leaders heard it as well and they gathered thousands, creating a storm to meet the charge of the man with yellow hair at Custer's Last Stand!

Of all the treaties the United States government has executed around the world, the only ones they have not kept sacred are those executed by and between the Native American, but it is well to note the government did execute them...the Native American that is!

The Miracle of the Images

Fiction

Every now and then a little miracle is in order. Some see them, some feel them, some pray for them in every corner of the world, Aldo Selleri prayed for his identity. The Miracle of the Images is about one man, called upon by an Angel of God to paint a miracle to be contained in a portrait of the Holy Family. The portrait has never been seen by the faithful, by order of the Holy See. The painting, completed by the hand of the Blessed Virgin, contains divine images, the first to be revealed in fifty years, and the second, the image of the Christ in 2055 in fulfillment of the old and new testaments prophecies in Revelations and the end of time.

A Sordid Prosecution

History

This book is a biographical/fiction which may or may not be an oxymoron. The book was written as a result of a false prosecution and conviction by a corrupt court in Louisville, Kentucky, which sent the author to prison at Leavenworth, Kansas for seventy-five months. Why such an oppressive and infamous prison for a sixty-five year old man who had never received a parking ticket, a first time offender for a "white collar crime?" To find out the book explores the role of rogue prosecutors, like Matthew W. Friedrich, who charged, tried and convicted a four term United States Senator Ted Stevens using the tactics employed against this author; deals with convicted thieves, stacking the jury, non-disclosure of exculpatory evidence and illegal counseling of a jury in deliberation by the judge and prosecutor. This scandalous event could happen to you. The evidence of a justice system gone astray is very much in the news and a part of the political campaign of 2016 led by Senator Bernie Sanders and of course, late to the game Hilliary Clinton. These far leaning liberals who laud and support our current president Obama who may have started the indictment of Senator Stevens through his "hangman" Eric Holder. It must be noted here that the "do nothing congress" did something positive in 2007 by passing what was called "The Second Chance Act." It was funded with sixty five million dollars and its purpose was to send non-violent, non-drug offenders, non-sex charged first time offenders who were sixty five years of age to a half-way house to do community service. This came at a time when America had elected its first black president and it had its first black Attorney General...what did they do to make certain fellow blacks who met this qualification were released...not a damn thing! The Bureau of Prisons spent the sixty five million on studies, training of guards and overtime pay. It has been reported that only one inmate was released under the program...go figure! The Author

Yet Untitled: The Story of Every Man

History

Thad Hamilton was a man whose life was on a treadmill, though he would not accept that he too was one of those mumbodies playing out an existence, leading a life of quiet desperation. Then, it changed, he had an auto accident and crossed over to the other side. Oh, sure... he too had always scorned "the light in the tunnel" as a bunch of bull-shit but there he was on some platform as if waiting for a train. Then a garishly dressed little woman with a monkey on her back and a sign with the name "Hamilton" haunted him, taunted him before reminding him there was no train for those without deeds.