Humor Stories

A Story in the Old Man's Musings Universe
Another Grandpa Jones Story. God decides to pull the plug on mankind. His angels remind him that he needs to follow the rules before destroying Man. God has to interview a human before he can destroy Man. The selection process is onerous, but they finally settle on Grandpa Jones. Does God know what he's in for?

Back in 1960, a small gas station in New Mexico mounted a modest effort to win the Gusher Gas Economy Run. Stranger things have happened.

Husband switches families in reality television show.

Kitty Anderson is a remarkable young woman of 1905 Texas. She shoots an automatic pistol and has learned to drink BEER, though not much at one time. She drives a car and, oh, yes, is a Secret Service agent. She starts out on a big case, tracking down the Knights of the Golden Circle (really, look them up). She's also a Deputy US Marshal, but that's just her cover.

A Indian Fighters Story
John Shiply is an ex-Army captain who leads a county militia detail in central Texas in 1857 during the Comanche wars. Their job is to find and kill as many Comanche warriors as they can before the Comanches kill all the Whites in central Texas. Join him as he and his men try to win Texas from the Comanches. / (Reviews)

A young woman, still a teenager, becomes a widow and the Marshal of a small Texas town in the old West. Join her as she fights crime, finds another loving husband, becomes a successful bounty hunter, a mother, and a Marshal again. There are many surprises at Harmony Junction and other places. Imagine what a tough gunslinger thinks when he is arrested by a woman! Except where I goofed, there is no dialect in this story except in some of the dialog. / (Reviews)

These three stories are true. Everyone has had a few strange or unusual experiences and these are some of mine.

Poor, sweet Emily. Sometimes she gets the salad; sometimes the salad gets her. The sequel to "Adventures in Horticulture".