Joe J: Stories

Joey was Andrea's dirty little secret, she thought he was absolutely the best and positively the worst thing ever to happen to her. My take on the rich girl/poor boy story.

A Story in the El Paso Universe
Tyler McGuinn was a washed up rodeo bull rider when he boarded a plane in Phoenix one day in 1977. The next thing he knew, he was a no account cowboy on a cattle drive headed for El Paso in 1877. To make matters worse, he was the cowboy destined to die by the back door of Rosa's Cantina. Fate had dealt Ty an ugly hand...or maybe not. / (Reviews)

A Sequel to the novel 'El Paso'. Set in the present, it features the great-great grandson and namesake of Ty McGuinn, the time traveling cowboy in El Paso. The future Ty's life is in turmoil. His ranch was being overrun with illegal aliens and drug smugglers sneaking across the border from Mexico. Ty was just protecting his ranch until a horrific attack against his family forces him to declare war on the drug smugglers and traffickers of young women duped into the sex trade.

A Story in the Jake River's Willie Nelson Invitational Universe
Joshua loved Lindsey with all his being, so when she kicked him to the curb on their fourth anniversary he was devastated. Josh didn't think his broken heart would ever heal, but with the help of a few extraordinary women, and the healing hands of time, he discovered that life could be better than he ever imagined. / (Reviews)

A Story in the Jake's C&W Invitational Universe
A coming of age story with a twist. Addle-brained Tommy works down at the feed store, stacking Purina and sweeping the floor. A Vietcong rocket scrambled his brains so thoroughly that was all he was capable of... or was it? / (Reviews)

A coming of age story about a young man who is not nearly as ordinary as he thinks he is. / (Reviews)

Johnny took a summer job as a medic for an archeological dig at the Karnak Temple Complex in Egypt. It was just another job until the archeologists discovered a set of stairs leading down to a massive tunnel system under the temple. The tunnels were occupied by the spirit of an ancient priest from the Cult of Amun-Ra. The old man needed Johnny's help to avoid a disaster in 1250BC, during the reign of the Pharaoh Ramses the Great.

Someone gave my wife one of those lame talking dolls that says all the inane things I would never say. So, I wrote her this story. / (Reviews)

Historical fiction and time travel with a twist. Jeremiah Brock was a violin playing muleskinner, a veteran of the War Between the States and a man who had trouble staying in one place - or one time. / (Reviews)

Warthog pilot Nick Pappas is shot down over the Syrian Desert in Western Iraq. He is taken prisoner by the four widows of an Iraqi farmer. The widows need labor on their desert farm and Allah has just dropped one from the sky. But their plans for Nick soon change, as the lonely widows and their teenage daughters become captivated with their handsome captive. / (Reviews)