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• A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Six

  By Brent Peterson on September 26, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  “Frank Granger,” Doc Handy said, pulling off his spectacles and pinching the bridge of his nose. “Is it possible Eustace Broome shipped his daughter off somewhere to have Frank Granger’s baby and then claimed she died?” He put his glasses… Read More ›

• Something in the Air

  By Brent Peterson on September 19, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Honestly, I’ve never heard anyone utter the words “I hate Santa Fe.” It would be like someone saying “I hate puppies” or “I hate breathing.” Folks who live there, as well as those who visit, will recite, gladly, a litany… Read More ›

• A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Five

  By Brent Peterson on September 8, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Just as I was opening the front door of the Broome house for Mama, Doc Handy pulled up to the curb in his old Ford. I looked across the street and saw Nettie Ledbetter standing on her front porch, shading… Read More ›

• A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Four

  By Brent Peterson on September 6, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s not every day someone you’re conversing with tells you she’s been dead for a quarter of a century, so you can imagine how surprised I was by her statement. I had about a million questions I wanted to ask her… Read More ›

• Stuff I Learned This Weekend

  By Brent Peterson on August 30, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  I don’t have kids and I never was one, so my experience with wee folk and their behavior is limited. And when I say wee folk, I’m not referring to fairies because I have tons of experience with fairies–enough to fill several posts, I’ll… Read More ›

• A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Three

  By Brent Peterson on August 26, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Two things came to mind as I followed the stranger into the Broome house and neither one of them was very comforting. The first was a hazy memory of Hansel and Gretel going into the old witch’s cottage, which to the… Read More ›

• Know When To Quit

  By Brent Peterson on August 23, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  I’d started a different blog post for today and had been toiling away for a couple of hours when I stopped and ditched the whole thing because not only had it gone off the rails, it had jumped a big mofo shark in the… Read More ›

• I’m in a Mood

  By Brent Peterson on August 22, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  First, I blamed all the usual suspects. I started with Monday because it’s Monday and Mondays usually suck for one reason or another, so why should this one be different? Except the truth is, as Mondays go, this one is… Read More ›

• A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Two

  By Brent Peterson on August 19, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  By the time Thanksgiving rolled around, the only folks who didn’t know there was a stranger in town were those individuals buried six feet under in our local cemetery, the Garden of Gethsemane. As for me, I’d joined ranks with the other living… Read More ›

• I Make Up Stuff

  By Brent Peterson on August 16, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  I have to say I’m a little surprised the initial content on this website is so fiction-oriented. When I envisioned this project, I saw myself regaling you with amusing anecdotes from my daily life that would have you doubled over with laughter, gasping… Read More ›