Category: PART OF A SERIES
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, Chapter 4: We Three Kings
This is the fourth chapter of a holiday series that will run for seven days and end on Christmas. The next morning, the smell of the breakfast being cooked filled every floor of the house, coaxing the occupants of each room out of the warmth of the old quilts they were under. All but Stan. Everyone else…
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, Chapter 3: Frosty the Snowman
This is the third chapter of a holiday series that will run for seven days and end on Christmas. When Stan arrived home from work the contrast of his black ’61 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Holiday Coupe against the backdrop of the fresh snow still laying on the lawn could have been a metaphor for Stan’s…
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, Chapter 2: Oh Come All Ye Faithful
This is the second chapter of a holiday series that will run for seven days and end on Christmas. Dana had spent the better part of three days packing everything she thought the family would need for the trip to Michigan, attempting to cover all the bases. The result was a mountain of luggage, ice…
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, Chapter 1: Deck the Halls
This is the first chapter of a holiday series that will run for seven days and end on Christmas. “Don’t go downstairs,” Kristen warned her brother while sitting at the top of the stairs. “Doug and Dana are at the kitchen table talking. Doug’s smoking so you know it’s serious. Dana has a glass of wine. She put it…
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THE ONE THAT FOLLOWED
THE FINAL IN A SERIES OF SEVEN STORIES. “You don’t know of a ‘Virginia Giddings’, by chance do you?” Channing certainly didn’t anticipate Vern being a bastion of knowledge, but had to start somewhere. The look he received when the motel clerk looked up from the TV confirmed his inability to help. “She used to teach English here…
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SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
THE SIXTH IN A SERIES OF SEVEN STORIES. When Corey Channing pulled off the highway and drove into Fort Stockton he looked around and thought that Shamrock had gotten drunk, gone over to Amarillo and had his way with her and Amarillo had come to Southwest Texas to have the baby. To his view, the town…
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TIS NONE MORE VALIANT
THE FIFTH IN A SERIES OF SEVEN STORIES. Channing passed through Canyon, where he’d stayed with his aunt and uncle during that summer before he went off to Nebraska to college. He didn’t stop. His uncle had long since passed away and he’d seen his aunt at his own father’s funeral two days earlier. He’d have to explain…
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TRUE REST
THE THIRD IN A SERIES OF SEVEN STORIES. Corey Channing pulled the big black Dodge into the parking lot at Amarillo Community College after class had already started. He hated being late, but had stopped to help a woman change a tire on his way in from his aunt and uncle’s place in Canyon, 19 miles…
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POISON DART
THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF SEVEN STORIES. The old guys that sat around the table all day drinking coffee at the U-Drop Inn used to say, “If ignorance is bliss why aren’t people happier in this town?” That struck most of the other folks as ironic, as every one of the old guys around the…