Category: Fiction
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ZOOM!
I used to think of ZOOM like Superman flying to the rescue Or Batman when he would POW! BIFF! BOP! the bad guys
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Eight Seconds
Learning about the rodeo had all started on Ethan’s first day at the one-room schoolhouse at Buena Vista, New Mexico Territory, where he joined only three other eighth grade students, two girls and one other boy.
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The Sledding Hill
When snow falls in sufficient depth, and temperatures stay cold enough to keep the snow on the ground for more than a couple of days, many people in Ohio go to the ski slopes in Mansfield or Bellefontaine. Others take their kids to local hills and parks with snow dishes, sleds and toboggans.
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The Campfire
The weekend was setting up to be the coldest so far in January. So cold in fact that the weather people on the TV news talked about possible record lows, even double-digits below zero.
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Scrooge in January, Part 3
After Moses had left him, suddenly Scrooge was on a city street corner, but it was not a city he recognized at all. Strange-looking wheeled conveyances without horses crowded the street. Bright and colorful lights illuminated by no flames lit the night sky.
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Scrooge in January, Part 2
Scrooge wrapped his robe more tightly around him against the cold wind on the mountainside and looked around, but he saw no one nearby. Then he looked out across the valley below.
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The Drive Home
The man and woman in the compact car were young, newly married, and looking forward to their first Christmas together. She had insisted that they drive to her parents’ home in Rendville, Ohio; he had to work late at the newspaper.
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The Sack Lunch
Elmer sat in a graying wood shack on a street corner looking over a small collection of evergreen trees. The trees were propped up by metal stakes driven into the hard-packed ground. He sold trees at the lot every November and December.
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The Jacktown Trail: Epilogue
Tritt and his friends helped the Shawnee band over the next few days as the dead were buried and the band made preparations for their trip west. Tritt gave them some of their supplies, and they divided up the robbers’ horses and gear.
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The Jacktown Trail – Chapter 9
“Up ahead is a settlement of Christianized Shawnees,” Black said to the others. “Proudy Bill is the son of a Shawnee chief, but he’s way past his prime now. When we go into that village, we need to show ‘em who’s in charge. If they so much as lift a finger to us, shoot to…
Dusty Tires 