Pilgrim: 101 books

Maynor Smith is a photographer who knows how to bring out the best in a girl. He’s got a keen eye for the kind of images customers want. But it's killing him. With each new girl, Maynor feels even guiltier. Finally Allison Manning comes into his studio. Allison is beautiful and young and Maynor...

In “Two Bridesmaids,” Walt meets a mysterious woman from the bride’s side of the family at his brother’s wedding. He’s interested in her, and she’s interested in him. But then at the reception, this woman backs off. She won’t even speak to him. But her eighteen year old daughter Claire...

Jennifer is eighteen. She smokes cigarettes. She likes to sleep in until late morning and then spend her afternoons watching TV. It seems like she has been fighting with her mother forever, but ever since Jennifer graduated from high school, the fights have been getting worse. Mom wants Jennifer to...

In "Her Last Trick," Jenna Morris gets out of the orphanage on her eighteenth birthday. She's an attractive girl with a confidence problem. Her older brother Dale is a debarred MMA fighter who is doing the best he can to look out for his little sister. The two of them are traveling across...

An Innocent Girl, Five Young Men, and a Jealousy Plot Becca Cartwright dreams of being a popular girl. She is from a strict religious family, but she longs to let herself go. Fortunately for Becca, her seventh-period lab partner this year is Ronnie Maul, a (mostly) innocent girl who is determined...

In "Bench Warrant," Gloria Dean is back. Exiled to her aunt's house in Carnal, sweet Gloria must learn to toe the line. But until she finds herself in hot water with the Carnal police, Gloria isn't interested in what her parent's or anyone else thinks. When Canal's Finest play "good...

Agnes Baker Pilgrim, known to most as Grandma Aggie, is in her nineties and is the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz. A descendant of both spiritual and political tribal leaders, Grandma Aggie travels tirelessly around the world to keep traditions...

Do you feel like it is time to make a change in your life? Perhaps you have read books about how to change your words to improve your life, but still cant figure out how to apply what you have read? Maybe you get it, but just dont get how to make it work in your life. Leaving Lack and Limitation:...

In “Dirty Business,” Joe Murphy, a down-on-his-luck real estate broker, lands a big deal with young Donnell Blackman and his out-of-town gang of street toughs. Veronica Smith, the beautiful relative of one of Joe’s business associates, shows up and agrees to a business deal. Joe knows Veronica...

David Pilgrim PhD is Professor of Health & Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool.

These are a selection of poems I chose to print in this book in dedication to all cancer victims and to all the families who have felt the hurt of helplessness at the realization of a fate unplanned and unfair that pulls our very spirit downward. The poems were written by Barron Pilgrim with these...

In “Tricked,” Jimmy Manley learns something he didn’t know about hustling gay men from Roger Bones, a high school dropout and ne’er do well. For a small fee—and unbeknownst to poor Jimmy—Roger has offered a gay man from the local mall a taste of young Jimmy’s "rod." If Jimmy...

A self-seeking father tries to protect his son from a sexually aggressive young coed, but this father ends up getting a "taste" of his own medicine instead. An adult work, A Snowball's Chance is a single story from the Carnal Series. In "A Snowball's Chance," Jake Benson...

In “Rainbow Party,” Carly Peterson is a virgin. She’s just been invited to something called a rainbow party. When she discovers it’s a competitive sex party--boys vs. girls--she’s not sure if she should stay. But then she notices an attractive boy with tattoos who seems smitten with her....