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Other Voices, Other Towns

Other Voices, Other Towns

Discover a fascinating and unforgettable array of characters back in the hide away heartland of America – from the professor of possumology to the world’s champion worm fiddler and the man who brought the Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned chili cook off to Luckenbach, Texas.

Chapters from Other Voices, Other Towns

Who was left to mourn the death of Diamond Bessie?

Aug 15, 2013

A gift that couldn’t be bought and...

Aug 12, 2013

How did the Vikings get to Oklahoma?

Aug 11, 2013

Who can solve the puzzle of the Runestone?

Aug 10, 2013

Only lonely graves marked the trail of broken...

Aug 9, 2013

Will you shield us from the horrors of these...

Aug 8, 2013

What happened when the Land Had Fever and Chills?

Aug 7, 2013

Curse of the Railroad Man: The End of Jefferson.

Aug 6, 2013

He would fly in a machine designed by God.

Aug 5, 2013

A Few Kind Words about Possums

Aug 4, 2013

The old wildcatter always dreamed it. He never...

Aug 3, 2013

Desperate man. Desperate Times. Desperate Gamble.

Aug 2, 2013

Rare is the politician who campaigns on a promise...

Aug 1, 2013

Whatever it was or wasn’t had the little...

Jul 31, 2013

She waited for a sign from God and left her...

Jul 30, 2013

The Sanctified Sisters had taken sex and liquor...

Jul 29, 2013

The most important day of the week was when the...

Jul 28, 2013

He bought the town so he could get a beer anytime...

Jul 27, 2013

They had no idea what it was but they knew it...

Jul 26, 2013

It all boiled down to a battle royal between the...

Jul 25, 2013

The battle for lost souls. The Traveler’s...

Jul 24, 2013

My Time Has Come. Just Take Me Home to Die. The...

Jul 23, 2013

The Stage that wouldn’t stay dark. The...

Jul 22, 2013

Bury My Heart in the Cedar Scrub Breaks of Palo...

Jul 21, 2013

Searching for Silver in the Spring of Dry Bones....

Jul 20, 2013

Godmother in the Desert. A Traveler’s Story.

Jul 19, 2013

Keeping the Faith on a dry prairie. Did anyone...

Jul 18, 2013

Where did the Marfa Lights come from, and why...

Jul 17, 2013

Can anyone explain the mysterious lights dancing...

Jul 16, 2013

Love died a hard and tragic death, and the...

Jul 15, 2013

Unexpected Riches from a Damnable Patch of Good...

Jul 14, 2013

Confessions for a pair of lost, soiled, and...

Jul 13, 2013

He didn’t know how to fall in love, then he...

Jul 12, 2013

He fled the hard times and all he could find were...

Jul 11, 2013

In the days when a politician would make a...

Jul 10, 2013

Legacy of a Madman. The Traveler’s Story.

Jul 9, 2013

A little girl waits for Christmas that never...

Jul 8, 2013

A man understands the need for friends when he...

Jul 7, 2013

A Love Like None Other Endures on a desert Land...

Jul 6, 2013

A cowboy’s short, sad ballad for Carnation...

Jul 5, 2013

God gave them the mountain highlands. The music...

Jul 4, 2013

He had a plan to keep the old mountain music from...

Jul 3, 2013

Jimmy Driftwood was determined to preserve the...

Jul 2, 2013

The songwriter and dreamer who brought hope to...

Jul 1, 2013

It was an imaginary town, but not to the people...

Jun 30, 2013

What’s going on with Lum and Abner down at...

Jun 29, 2013

If he wanted to crash a party, he could figure...

Jun 28, 2013

You never know who you will meet and what strange...

Jun 27, 2013

The swamp is a taskmaster, and only a few are as...

Jun 26, 2013

The sons of the Atchafalaya lived in another...

Jun 25, 2013

They said he couldn’t win, but the...

Jun 24, 2013

He was fighting to save the trees with the only...

Jun 23, 2013

Rust among the Relics. For one day, it was the...

Jun 22, 2013

He played his songs on the oddest musical...

Jun 21, 2013

He and the Lord got together every morning for a...

Jun 20, 2013

Are you sure we really had men up there and...

Jun 19, 2013

Only the angel on the lake knew the heart of the...

Jun 18, 2013

When the last trumpet sounds, W. C. Handy will be...

Jun 17, 2013

Tattered dreams don’t fade. The Woman Who...

Jun 16, 2013

When the dead speak, who hears them and what do...

Jun 15, 2013

Don’t mess with the lady who lives on the...

Jun 14, 2013

No foot stomping. No praying. No begging. Just...

Jun 13, 2013

It’s good to be king, even if it’s...

Jun 12, 2013

Requiem for a Dog. The courtroom battle to...

Jun 11, 2013

When the motorcycles roared in, the gang only...

Jun 10, 2013

They come to sweat about all that’s...

Jun 9, 2013

For Whom the Bells Toll. A Ghost Town Farewell....

Jun 8, 2013

The world was dying around him, but he stayed...

Jun 7, 2013

The storms never reach the sands where the Gray...

Jun 6, 2013

The Gray Man walks before the big storms blow on...

Jun 5, 2013

The common man did not read poetry, but he read...

Jun 4, 2013

The words of Carl Sandburg: The Conscience of...

Jun 3, 2013

The Blessing of Bessie when the Snows Ran Deep....

Jun 2, 2013

They bartered eggs and milk for tickets and came...

Jun 1, 2013

What good was a play and a stage if no one could...

May 31, 2013

The Southern highlands keep their ancient secrets...

May 30, 2013

Where the mountains are higher and prettier....

May 29, 2013

What was one man doing with so much mountain? The...

May 28, 2013

The Last Man on the Mountain. The...

May 27, 2013

Serial Titles from Caleb and Linda Pirtle

A Year Without Killing

An Unlikely Arrangement

Hers is a life of high society and his is involved with organized crime. It culminates in an...

Anchored Woman

Blood Land

Crime's an ugly constant in the big city. L.A. Chicago. New York. But when a savage murder...

Borrowed to the Bone

Raised in poverty, Ben Tom Lawless, an anomaly in a family of criminals, finds success but has it...

Cleansed by Fire

Churches are burning, and the unsolved murder of a man has plunged a small East Texas town into a...

Dark Continent Continental

Ace homicide detectives Angus Carlyle and Kerry 'Skeeter' Sherwood find themselves ankle deep in...

Deadline News

In the midst of the Great Depression, while a crippled old wildcatter drills for oil, a newspaper...

Divine Fury

He was happy writing fluff until two murders, a worldwide conspiracy and a beautiful woman got in...

Divorce of Another Color

An artist faces the trials and tribulations as she confronts an unfulfilled and unsatisfied life.

Doing Max Vinyl

Everybody wants to do Max Vinyl. His girlfriend, Tris, who turns out to be a tree-hugger and will...

Friday Nights Don't Last Forever

The dream of college football propels Casey Clinton into the best and worst times of his life. When...

Gris Gris

Hills of Eden

One of America's great authors, poets, and storytellers takes us on a walk through the Ozark...

Island Healing

Geneva Saint has come home to her beloved St. Anne’s Island, Georgia. Leaving her unfaithful...

Kill Me Again

Los Angeles homicide detective Fey Croaker must solve the recent murder of a pretty,...

Lessons Learned

Letters from Olathe

Nelson and Cora

A war has ended, but the battle has just begun for two opposing families rying to survive on the...

Night Side of Dark

American operative Ambrose Lincoln has no idea where he is or has been or where he's going. He...

Opium

Set against the backdrop of blazing poppy fields in war-torn Laos, a sizzling love affair and...

Other Voices, Other Towns

Discover a fascinating and unforgettable array of characters back in the hide away heartland of...

Perfection Unleashed

Two men, one face. One man seeks to embrace destiny, the other to escape it. Danyael Sabre...

Suspicious Minds

1977, the one and only king of rock-n-roll, Elvis Presley, is taken from the world far too soon,...

The Button Jar

The Day Camelot Came To Town

A newspaper reporter’s quite personal and vivid remembrance of President John F. Kennedy’s...

The Midnight Ride of Zack Lanier

The Mummies of Blogspace9

If you enjoyed reading The Martian by Andy Weir, you’ll love The Mummies of Blogspace9. It’s...

The President's Club

A group of retirees and the ex-FBI agent hired to protect them attempt to solve a murder and...

The Scavenger's Song

Detectives are on the trail of a serial killer who deals in the macabre. Things are not as they...

The Uncivil War

What would have happened if the Civil War had turned out differently? What if the South had won?...

The Woods

Harlan never believed the whisperings in town about the woods until he found the remains of his...

The Wormhole Effect

Dr. Anna Markham and a brilliant team of physicists unwittingly discover a means to locate...

Tortillas for Juan

ToxiCity

Libby Fischer Hellmann's thriller TOXICITY is as gritty as it is spellbinding. Populated with...

Twist of Fate

It's the late 1700's.Mother-less six-year-old Audelia Simms is kidnapped by Indians roaming the...

Where It Began

Our family of origin is mere happenstance, yet powerfully directs the fate of two longtime friends...

Where It Ended

Where It Went

The Accidents of Birth Trilogy. Book Two.