Short & Not Short Stories

                                                                                       ~ 1 ~ It’s always a number of things that lead you to the life you end up living.  For Jakob Franklin, there was always something inside him that told him that no matter how materially wealthy he became, he always needed to understand that there were others who were not so lucky and that any way you could help them was more than just the right thing to do, but a moral obligation.  His father Ike, short for Isaac, Franklin had built an empire from the mine to the factory floor, building high-end machine parts, based on fair play and a keen understanding of the market. Jakob admired the qualities that took his dad down the road to all the...