Infantry School as an MBA
Genre: Short Stories
David Smith shares more if his childhood in "Texas Spirit."
Though Dad Smith had but a high school education, he impressed on his three boys the value and importance of all kinds of education and his readiness to pay for graduate school, provided we focused.
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The Jesus Doctor
Genre: Folk Tales
Luke Boyd tells us more stories in "Coon Dogs and Outhouses V1."
In some ways he was just another country doctor.
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Exam Day 1 & 2
Genre: Sports
The power of the influence of a boy's determined pastor.
Jimmy Boyle was a snotty nosed kid and a fine athlete. Taller than all others in his Our Precious Lady grade school class, the raw-boned teenager had formidable muscles with a God-given dexterity that
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Strange Behavior
Genre: True Crime
More stories by John Wills' and "Women Warriors: Stories from the Thin Blue Line."
I have been told that all good redneck stories need to start the same way.
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Bless our Fraternity
Genre: Folk Tales
More stories by David Smith's "Texas Spirit."
When I went off to The University in the fall of 1949 (today UT-Austin),
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Two Women Alone In a Room
Genre: fiction
this is a story of 2 women who live two opposite lives...but then again they are so much alike
Two women alone in a room
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The Sanitary Toilet
Genre: Folk Tales
Luke Boyd shares more of his stories in "Coon Dogs and Outhouses V1."
Now-a-days it is a joke to refer to a house as having "four rooms and a path."
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First Shooting
Genre: True Crime
More stories by John Wills' "Women Warriors."
I remember dreading receiving that call for the first time – the one where someone has been shot. How would I respond?
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The Undertaker Comes for David Smith
Genre: Short Stories
More short stories by David Smith and "Texas Spirit."
When I was a freshman at The University of Texas, my big brother Bim’s good friend Dave Gardner invited me squirrel hunting west of Austin at the fraternity lake club.
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Drummed Out of the Club
Genre: Folk Tales
More folk tales by Luce Boyd and "Coon Dogs and Outhouses v1."
Back in the mid-fifties, Morton worked for a large company which had offices in several foreign countries.
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