Category: PART OF A SERIES
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HEADED SOUTH, Chapter V
The fifth chapter of a seven part series that will run all week. Inside the black step van, the cook from the K-Bob’s, three boys from the Jim Bowie High School basketball team, two boys who worked as baggers at the Piggly Wiggly, and one young woman who worked housekeeping at the Piggly Wiggly were in…
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HEADED SOUTH, Chapter IV
The fourth chapter of a seven part series that will run all week. Luckily for Lucinda, the black panel van had made several stops the morning that they grabbed Delgado. The delay in the van getting over the border enabled her to make up for lost time in the armored Sequoia as she pursued them. Following the…
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HEADED SOUTH, Chapter III
The third chapter of a seven part series that will run all week. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Except Lucinda when someone has illegally kidnapped her man and sent him south under the auspices of illegal immigration. “Mayor Goodman knew damn well Delgado was an American citizen before he sent those thugs out to the…
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HEADED SOUTH, Chapter II
The second chapter of a seven part series that will run all week. Since the shot that fell the feral hog and saved Lucinda from certain death, Lucinda and Delgado had been nearly inseparable. It’s like the separation that had happened in early November had never taken place. That was probably the best way to handle…
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HEADED SOUTH, Chapter I
The first chapter of a seven part series that will run all week. Liz and Dick. Camila and Charles. Jennifer and Ben. There are some couples who break up and then get back together and absolutely nobody is surprised. The only question is why it took as long as it did. Lucinda and Delgado were in that same group. When…
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SUNLINERS AND LINGERIE, Chapter VII
This is the final chapter of a Seven Part Series. “It was the damndest thing I ever saw. I’ll tell you that for damn sure.” Heck Haskel was firmly planted on the bar stool in front of Hank at the Lucky Lady Lounge, thinking about what had happened earlier in the day. He was both exhausted and wound…
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SUNLINERS AND LINGERIE, Chapter VI
This is the sixth chapter of a Seven Part Series. Late in the fall of 1960, the trips to Mexico to retrieve shipments of bananas were two, sometimes three times a week. The Piggly Wiggly in Fort Stockton, the Winn-Dixie in Mason, and the Hinkey Dinkey in Marfa all placed standing orders. The Dairy Twin was selling…
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SUNLINERS AND LINGERIE, Chapter V
This is the fifth chapter of a Seven Part Series. The potato business is a hard one to make a go of in Fort Stockton. It certainly was in 1955, anyway. The soil is hard and unforgiving. Russet and his wife Julienne had tried to make it work, despite the forewarnings of just about everyone in town. But they…
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SUNLINERS AND LINGERIE, Chapter IV
This is the fourth chapter of a Seven Part Series. As Mabel heard the deep male voice on the other end of the line explain that she had just won a brand new 1960 Ford Sunliner convertible, any reply she might have offered was stuck in her throat like a chicken bone. “Mrs. Malakoff? Mrs. Malakoff? Are…
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SUNLINERS AND LINGERIE, Chapter III
This is the third chapter in a Seven Part Series. Lorena de la Echeverria was told she was going to live with an uncle, one with vast resources and land holdings that stretched further than she had ever traveled in all her 12 years. Of course, at 12, Lorena didn’t understand that Heriberto Eduardo Zambada was…