Papa was a nightrider
Genre: Short Stories
Luke Boyd continues to tell his stories in "Coon Dogs and Outhouses."
On one occasion we were sent to bed at the usual time, and for some reason, I let myself fall asleep.
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A Rookie’s Tale
Genre: True Crime
Kimberly paints herself as the quintessential Keystone Cop.
To say I was gullible early in my career would be an understatement.
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Live Oak Ranch, Bergheim Texas
Genre: Short Stories
After moving from El Paso to San Antonio in the fifties,
Dad Smith surprised his family by doing something at variance with two of his banker aphorisms:
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When your best friend, is a dog…
Genre: For the love of dogs
Why do some people,me included,prefer the company of animals but in this case dogs over the company of dogs.??
We are surrounded by humans, everywhere we go, there they are, walking, talking, eating, laughing, crying and sometimes shouting. So why do some of us choose to be far away from the noise and energy
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The Stone Mountain Deer
Genre: Folk Tales
I want to tell y'all about a place I went to over in Georgia years ago.
They call it Stone Mountain. It's a big mountain made entirely of granite, and it's completely round.
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It’s Over Tonight
Genre: True Crime
Although I had been a police officer for nineteen years ...
and had spent approximately fifteen of them on the street, my most critical situation occurred much closer to home when I was involved in a shootout with my brother-in-law.
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Cultural Tea-Sip But Closet Aggie
Genre: short stories
When I was still a little boy growing up in El Paso, I considered being a farmer,
When I was still a little boy growing up in El Paso, I considered being a farmer, though I probably never said as much to my folks or brothers.
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Daddy’s Stories
Genre: Short Stories
My father loved to tell stories and tall tales. Some were true.
Others had some elements of truth in them--maybe just enough to make the listener think they could be true, at least until toward the end of the tale.
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Far West Texas Hindsight
Genre: Short Stories
In 1940 Fort Bliss, Texas was something of an afterthought to El Paso, a city of maybe 50,000 folks when I was a boy growing up.
Assuming the frontier closed in 1890, as most historians say, El Paso made the transition from rough, rowdy frontier town to a highly progressive small city easily and quickly.
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It Happened on a Saturday
Genre: Humor
I know it was a Saturday because we had been to town.
We never went to town any other day because there was too much work to do to waste time going to town during the week. My daddy would usually work until noon on Saturday.
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