Coffee Percs

I poured. He took a long swig. ‘This coffee is horrid,’ he proclaimed. ‘You gotta be alive to taste.’”                     –A.K. Vyas  (Dodge City)   Mornin’, Pard.  Yuh know if’n it ain’t one thing it’s the other.  Least wise my coffee ain’t horrid; it’s more delectable.  Makes…

Echoes From the Campfire

You old men are a different breed. I can’t even think the way you think. You smell danger five minutes before it happens. You make a lifetime of decisions in a split second of terror that would freeze most men. Then you put it all behind you with a joke. You go on back to…

Echoes From the Campfire

Trust is a wonderful thing.”                –Ernest Haycox  (Guns of Fury)        “Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.’”                –James 4:15 (NKJV)———————————–               “There is…

The Saga of Miles Forrest

I had only been inside this church one other time.  It was when I was town marshal and had to chase down a man who cut up one of the saloon girls.  He claimed what he called “sanctuary.”  Now I know to respect the church, but from what I recall only the Levites could declare…