“That fella is a snake in the grass and I want you to keep away from him, you hear me?” Spinner Davis pulled Lorraine behind him as they left the tent. “Spinner, you’re hurting my arm!” Lorraine exclaimed, pulling away from… Read More ›
Story in Progress
A Story in Progress: Darkness Falls on Endurance, Parts One and Two
Part Three will be published this week. Dorothy Faye Owen stood under the marquee of the Rex Theater and looked at her wristwatch. It was 7:12 and they’d missed the newsreel and half the previews. If she doesn’t show up… Read More ›
A Story in Progress: Darkness Falls on Endurance, Part One
Dorothy Faye Owen stood under the marquee of the Rex Theater and looked at her wristwatch. It was 7:12 and they’d missed the newsreel and half the previews. If she doesn’t show up in the next three minutes, Dorothy… Read More ›
A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Nine–Conclusion
“Grady Gibson, if you don’t stand still, I’m going to snatch you bald-headed!” My sister Clarry was having a heck of a battle with my necktie and it seemed to me the necktie was winning. “Allow me,” Skeet Thatcher said, gently nudging… Read More ›
A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Eight
“There’s no doubt I played a part in all this,” Skeet said, as he accepted the cup of coffee Mama handed to him. “I just didn’t know it at the time.” Payton Thatcher, known to all as Skeet, was Endurance’s only lawyer… Read More ›
A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Seven
“Frank?” Charlotte Broome asked. “Frank, is that you? Are you here?” She’d opened her eyes and was staring at the door where Frank Granger and I stood. He looked at Mama uncertainly, and although she nodded and gestured for him… Read More ›
A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Six
“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 ›
A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Five
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
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 ›
A Story in Progress: A Stranger in Endurance, Part Three
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 ›
