(In case you missed it, Click Here to read Part 1) Cherie dragged a hand across her cheek, dashing away the unwanted tears that fell for her father, a man she had never known nor had ever really wished to. Well, at least, she had not wished to […]
Jimmy was a good ol’ boy, and proud of it. From his standard-issue John Deere ball cap to the solid silver belt buckle riding low under the beginnings of a beer gut, and right on down to his snakeskin boots, he was country through and through. Jimmy stood […]
Oh, dear Lord, this is the flattest place on earth… Cherie turned off I-70 with great reluctance, rumbling up the exit ramp in her rusted MG, leaving a trail of smoke behind her as black as her mood. Amos was about as uninspiring a town as could possibly […]
Vickie didn’t know much about anything, but she knew something was wrong with Momma. It was wrong because Momma never touched guns. She baked bread and weeded the garden and went to work, but she never touched a gun. Guns were for her uncles and Daddy and Gramps. […]
Perseverance had never been Mick’s strong suit. Neither had shyness. But then again, he had never set his mind to courting a pregnant girl nine years his junior. From the moment his world had been knocked sideways on his hometown sidewalk between the donut shop and Ben Franklin, […]