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Stephen L. Brayton is a Sixth Degree Black Belt and certified instructor in the American Taekwondo Association.

He began writing as a child; his first short story concerned a true incident about his reactions to discipline. During high school, he wrote for the school newspaper and was a
photographer for the yearbook. For a Mass Media class, he wrote and edited a video project.

In college, he began a personal journal for a writing class; said journal is ongoing. He was also a reporter for the college newspaper.

During his early twenties, while working for a Kewanee, Illinois radio station, he wrote a fantasy based story and a trilogy for a comic book.

He has three books published: Night Shadows, The Peace Tree Mystery, and A Cold New Year.

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	ALPHA: A Mallory Petersen Mystery 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cold New Year 4.89 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iowa's Original Writers Anthology 2015 by Matthew Davenport (Goodreads Author), Kathryn Daugherty (Goodreads Author), Stephen Brayton (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	BETA by Brayton, Stephen, Stephen Brayton (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ALPHA 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iowa's Original Writers Anthology 2015 by Wendy Siefken (Goodreads Author), Kathryn Daugherty (Goodreads Author), Stephen Brayton (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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1958. A group of fifth and sixth graders from a small Texas town explore a secluded valley one night because of a sighting of something strange. A UFO? Each of the children experiences something weird that affects their dr ...more "

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