"We may know that war is never the answer."
Former Loveland resident and current Trustee of the Loveland Arts Council, John Kachuba has posted on Amazon.com (Kindle) his two-volume collection of short stories (e-books) titled There Comes a Season: Stories of War and Peace. Kachuba said, "Because of my
commitment to peace and justice I am donating a portion of all book
sales to the Intercommunity Justice and
Peace Center (IJPC) in
Cincinnati."
Kachuba founded the Arts & Cultural Council of Greater Loveland (Now the Loveland Arts Coiuncil) and continues with them as a Trustee.
There
are consequences of war that remain hidden, buried deep within the minds
and hearts of not only the soldiers, but those who wait for them, those
who may be many miles removed from the front lines. In two volumes, There Comes a Season
tells the stories of some of these people, such as the jaded newspaper
reporter who is shaken to his core by the massacre of Lakota Indians at
Wounded Knee in 1890; or the personal photographer of Adolf Hitler, who
fears for his Jewish wife in 1930’s Germany; or the young man who faces
being drafted to fight in Vietnam. Here, also, is the story of the WWII
infantryman who returns to Anzio, Italy only a few years after the war
to find out why he didn’t die there; the African-American Vietnam vet
who returns to an America that has no use for him; the New York
deli-store owner who feels threatened in the wake of “9-11,” and the man
who is haunted by the memory of his brother, a U.S. Marine who
committed suicide in Iraq. Yet, There Comes a Season remains hopeful that, through stories such as these, we may know that war is never the answer.
There Comes a Season Volume 1
There Comes a Season Volume 2
John Kachuba is the author of twelve books, a Creative Writing instructor at Ohio University and Antioch University Midwest, and a member of the Historical Novels Society. He is also a member of St. John’s Unitarian-Universalist church in Cincinnati. A portion of the proceeds from sales of There Comes a Season are donated to the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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