STORIES
If our lives are a book, the cars we drive define the chapters.
These are stories featuring cars, trucks, and even RVs that played a role in the lives of the people who owned or drove them. Many are set in Fort Stockton, Texas and involve a cast of characters in and around the dusty southwest Texas town. A lot of the stories are shared around the table at The Grounds for Divorce, where the ‘regulars’ meet.
Pull up a chair and let Lucinda pour you a hot cuppa joe and enjoy.
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A CONCOURS CORINTHIAN DELOREAN
In the world of sports, certain premier athletes display such a command of the game that they no longer compete against other players playing the same position. They compete only against themselves. Seeing if they can break their own records, attain even more victories. Climb ever higher mountains. The greats are in a world all their own. But, of course, none of those great athletes…
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RACING DEMONS
Dalton Hightower grew up dirt poor in a two room sod house that kept out neither the elements, snakes, nor the rodents they fed on. He left school after learning his numbers and letters, his time deemed more worthy spent helping coax a meager living from the Hightower homestead. Virginia’s lot in life was similar. Her family leased…
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SPARKS FLYIN’
The WELCOME TO FORT STOCKTON sign had never looked so good to the folks inside the armored Toyota Sequoia. Sister Thelma vowed to never leave Texas again, but knew that was a promise she might not be able to honor. She’d go wherever God called her. Delgado, sitting in the front passenger seat, was contemplating the narrow…
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HEADED SOUTH, Chapter VII
The final chapter of a seven part series that has run all week. Marty got the deportees to the airport and made sure they’d all boarded the plane back to Texas before returning to the village of Delicias where he was playing a set at the Maestros del Pasado Club around the corner from where…
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HEADED SOUTH, Chapter VI
The sixth chapter of a seven part series that will run all week. Lucinda lost the signal from Delgado’s phone, indicating it had gone dead. Hopefully Delgado hadn’t as well. She was in unchartered territory. Flying blind. The last indication she’d received was from a small Mexican town called Delicias. The best she could hope for was to show up…
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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…