Category Archives: Stories

Fistful of Diamonds

Mark was sitting on the front porch of Matherson’s store watching the town’s most prominent men play cards. Mark wasn’t playing today. In fact, it is said that the two surest ways to throw away money are to buy a boat and play cards with Mark Pritchett. Anyway, today he was not in the business […]

Drama

I saw something on my friends website about writing a story using a list of random words. The random words for this piece were: practical, shaggy, porcelain, dragon, approximate, explain, narrower, fountain, gyrate, exhaling, off-balance, angels, exaggerate, cotton, incriminate, afterward, moon, terror, ruptured, sickly. One word was shoe-horned in. The others I think are more […]