She knew Doc Weber worried way too much about her and her bull. But when Doc returned to her house to warn her about some dude in a grey car with Arkansas plates parked on the road outside, Avery was well and truly spooked. Was it Curtis? Possibly. Probably. Avery’s heart raced […]
“Nice ride,” Curtis said, eyeing the black Charger appreciatively. The blonde behind the wheel smiled. “Thanks. Just got it a few months ago,” she said, sliding out of the driver’s seat and reaching for the gas pump. The girl decided he looked safe enough in his pink polo shirt and jeans. After […]
Avery’s new best friends were Google, the vet, and the feed store. Between them all, Avery had somehow managed to nurse Baby from a 90-pound weakling calf, through a case of the scours, past his bucket-calf days and on to life as a healthy bovine. Avery’s first trip to the […]
Avery Jackson wiped the dust from her dashboard and settled the sunglasses back on her nose. It was almost gone now, faded from deep purple through every stage of blue, and now was a smudge of yellowish green bleeding into her cheekbone. She and L’Oreal had done their best, yet still it […]
(The serial concludes today.) The sun was just setting as James and MaryAnn took the Amos exit off I-70 and rolled into town. And while Amos at the best of times was a roll-up-the-sidewalks-at-dusk kind of town, it seemed to them that it was even quieter than usual. […]