Early Stories

"Early Stories" is a collection that highlights a special time in a writer's life, the time when the process of creating is just beginning.

Between 2003 and 2007, Brooks Kohler wrote these fiction stories for a magazine based in Southern Illinois. Written from a rural American perspective, his stories reflected life in the early twentieth century.

Special care was taken in crafting each story. Using historical photos along with sources from American history, the goal of the author was to produce fiction that would both entertain and educate.