Stories by Ron Wilbur

Ron Wilbur is a story teller, retired pastor, speaker, and business and marketing/branding authority serving global corporations.

He has written over 200 articles on a wide variety of topics - business, marketing, ministry, serving the homeless, faith, and life - plus the stories included here:

  • 10 short stories
  • 5 books in two series - 16 more in process
  • 18 Christmas stories

As a child, Ron's mother used to read Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories to him and his sister. That early grounding in tales with solid moral messages helped shape his life and career. It's no wonder that many of his stories and five of his books are for young people.

Titles below are indexed by the age for whom they are intended.


Short Stories

  5th grade through adult
     Where Have You Gone, Mary Rose?
A true story of 5th graders on a first date.


  7th grade through adult
     Birds of a Feather
Don't let people with small thinking define what you can be.

     The True History of the Origins of Floss
A tongue-in-cheek short story about the origin of floss.


  High School through adult
     Chance of a Lifetime
Timing is everything in this story of chasing the future.

     The Product
What causes some people to just plain be hard to take?

      The Shelter of Life
A heartwarming story about a little puppy and a young girl.

      The Whippinpool Effect
An amazing breakthrough in world crop science results in dramatic yields, or does it?

      Vox Hominum
What happens when humans create a new species to help colonize another planet?


  Adult
      A Day With the Hired
A story of apparent destiny, and a change in plans.

      Tangelo Cooler
Behind-the-scenes look at life in the DEA war against smugglers.

 

Book Series

  Bold titles - currently completed. Non-bolded titles - in process.

Chris Chronicles Bedtime Stories - for all ages

   Book  1 - Meet The Amazing Chris Mouse (9 stories)
   Book  2 - Chris Mouse Family Adventures (9 stories)
   Book  3 - Life in a Chris Mouse World (9 stories)
   Book  4 - It's a Mouse Life (9 stories)

   Coming soon:
   Book  5 - More Mouse Tails
   Book  6 - Growin' Up Mouse
   Book  7 - Chris Mouse Family Changes
   Book  8 - Mice - Life in the Big City
   Book  9 - The Mouse Economy
   Book  10 - Early Days and Good Friends

The Lost and Found Series - for high school through adults

   The Lost and Found - Life and redemption on a Western ranch.

   Coming soon:
   The Lost and Found "Keepin' on" - The journey continues
   The Lost and Found "Beyond" - South of nowhere, east of somewhere
   The Lost and Found "Orchards" - It's often the small things
   The Lost and Found "Culture" - Hard work, clean living
   The Lost and Found "Marketing" - The 5 Ring approach to growth
   The Lost and Found "Farming" - Secrets of Exponential Agriculture/Horticulture
   The Lost and Found "Matrimony" - Stories of changed lives from the Wedding Venue
   The Lost and Found "Beyond" - The import-export strategies of a unique western ranch
   The Lost and Found "Next Level" - A bluebird catapults the ranch into the next level
   The Lost and Found "Homecoming" - A Ten-Year Reunion celebrating changed lives


Grandpa Wilbur's Christmas Stories

  All ages
      The Charming Little Town of Tinselina
Things weren't going well, but then everything changed.

      The Honest-to-Goodness True Story of Santa's Elves
So where did elves come from?

      The Magnifi-Cat
A contemporary twist on an age-old story.


  3rd grade through adult
      A Christmas Tail
The first story in the Chris Chronicles Books, a 10-book series below.


  5th grade through adult
      Christmas Comes to Luna
A young African boy learns the true meaning of Christmas.

      Island Night, Holy Night
What happens when disaster follows a tough life event?

      The Shepherd's Song
A first-person, eye witness account to a world-changing event.


  7th grade through adult

      An Elsie Christmas
A family gathering for Christmas, set in a Nebraska sod house in 1958.

      Angels We Have Heard On High
A Christmas Devotional.

      Christmas Angels
A prank turns out to be a blessing in disguise.

      Follow the Star
A familly, a cold winter night, and a journey to somewhere.

      Martha and Jesus
A wonderful story about two people destined to meet.

      The Incredible Route 91 Christmas Sandwich
Working on Christmas brings a totally unexpected surprise.

      This Baby Boy
What goes through the mind of a day's old infant?


  High school through adult

      My First Christmas Present
Life sometimes brings an unexpected surprise.

      One Mississippi Christmas
When hard luck presents a great future.

      The First Barney Noel
A humorouse look at a Christmas that no one expected.

      The Long Road Home
When going home means coming home.

  

All works © Ron Wilbur. All Rights Reserved.