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12 Churches and 5 Bars
It was another cold, dark, and howling night in Little Twig, Montana. No longer below zero, the wind had picked up again and slapped Daphne in the butt as she literally blew into the saloon. At the...
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Shut Eye
(This is an ongoing series that takes place in The Grand Saloon, a kind of bar at the edge of the frontier much like the Star Wars bar in the first movie. There are the regular cast of characters as …...
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“Well, Not Exactly”
“Ready to Run” The temperature was falling fast as Daphne made her way past a cow who had just had her calf and was munching contentedly on some after birth while her newborn shivered in the grass....
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“It Was a Two Dog Night…”
Last night Daphne wriggled into her long johns and stretch corduroys; laced up her knee high boots; threw on her down coat; adjusted her trapper’s hat; chose the red gloves for a bit of color and...
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That’s Just Mean
Daphne had been laying awake at break of dawn because Mr. Robin Redbreast had started his infernal tweeting even earlier. She remembered listening to the rattling of the garbage trucks in New York...
View ArticleBad Dudes
Woke up Monday morning to the news that two fugitives were holed up somewhere around Big Twig. They were on the run and had abandoned their car and headed into the hills. At around Noon, word was...
View Article”Shit Happens” Example #2: The Blown Up Bull
Daphne hadn’t been in Montana long and had only been with Clay less than a year when the phone rang. ”Is Clay around,” said the man on the other line. ”No, he’s in town, “Daphne answered. ”Well, this...
View ArticleDaphne in the Doghouse
The winds had howled louder than any pack of coyotes and wolves put together. Those winds had taken the foot of snow that fell in the night and hurled it on to the last bit of road out of the …...
View ArticleNuts
Nuts – A Poem I love the train. Maybe I will just ride it all week long. Back and forth from wherever. Makes me less nuts. Less glitches than flying although last week the train I take hit a man …...
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