Category: PART OF A SERIES
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SUITS & VERDICTS, Suit Number 1
The first of seven chapters that will run all week. It didn’t take long for the festive mood to pack up and leave town. I mean Mavis over at the DMV, whose job it is to go over to the Paisano Pete Statue that welcomes folks to town and strip off all the Christmas garb…
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HAPPY MOTORING, Chapter VI
This is the final chapter of a series of six stories. Tab Clifton sat next to his old high school buddy at the bar of the Lucky Lady Lounge. He’d heard Kelly Kerr had been back in town for a while, but it had taken a while for the two to get together. They’d gone through the…
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HAPPY MOTORING, Chapter V
This is the fifth chapter is a series of six stories. The events that took place in the month after hearing the words “I’m pregnant” whispered in the front seat of Mindy’s Nova became a blur that Kelly could barely recall. Kelly and Mindy got married in a small ceremony at the Tarrant County Courthouse…
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HAPPY MOTORING, Chapter IV
This is the fourth chapter in a six part series. June of 1963 seemed to fly by. Kelly was working a full 40 hours a week at the Happy Motoring ride at Six Flags, or occasionally filling in for crew members who’d called in sick or been sent home for violating one policy or another. He’d actually…
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HAPPY MOTORING, Chapter III
This is the third chapter of a six part series. “I don’t know which is a bigger shock, living in the middle of Dallas – Fort Worth or the alternate reality that Six Flags is. It’s like a made up world based on historical fact, but nothing is really as it seems.” Kelly was exhausted after his…
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HAPPY MOTORING, Chapter II
The second chapter of a six part series. Aunt Nellie and Uncle Todd were great. They were the couple Kelly wished his own parents could have been. He didn’t know how much his mother had shared with her sister, Kelly’s aunt. But he assumed they knew that his dad had disappeared. He thought they probably knew what had taken…
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HAPPY MOTORING, Chapter I
Chapter 1 of 6 in the story. When Arch Kerr returned to Fort Stockton from the service in early 1945 he was a different man than when he left. Perhaps it was like Heraclitus had said, “No man steps into the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he is not the same…
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, Chapter 7: Silent Night
This is the final chapter of the Christmas series. Doug was out of his chair and out the side door from the kitchen like a bullet. In the driveway, he looked at the passenger side of the Country Squire in total disbelief. A moment later, Bobby ambled out. He had a beer in each hand, one for himself…
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, CHAPTER 6: White Christmas
This is the sixth chapter of a holiday series that will run for seven days and end on Christmas. Grandma Nolan was up long before the sun. The tuna hot dish was just coming out of the oven when the others began to stir and make their way to the chrome percolator for a hot…
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, Chapter 5: The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
This is the fifth chapter of a holiday series that will run for seven days and end on Christmas. The Country Squire eventually made its way back to the brick Tudor home of Doug’s youth in Ferndale. Doug’s family felt like they knew him a little better having seen the town he grew up in, the…