A Story in the El Paso Universe
A number of authors got together and each of us wrote a story on the three songs about El Paso by Marty Robbins. This is my contribution.
My first non-erotic piece about a woman who must deal with the loss of her daughter. Dedicated to everyone who has lost a family member or someone special.
Henry Buchanan is a professional engineer. He takes on some of the more difficult problems, for many large companies.
An earthquake alters his life, when he finds he has long hidden neighbours. He must now use all his knowledge to save not only them, but all of humanity.
Unable to prevent an unspeakable tragedy as a young teen, unwarranted guilt becomes his driving force through adolescence and into adulthood. This story spans nearly two decades, and involves many people. It is a story of good and evil, tragedy and triumph, love, relationships, and more than a little sex. / (Reviews)
Tom and his father could never see eye to eye on almost any subject. Jack was a 'my way or the highway' sort, but when Jack issued an ultimatum on Tom's final day of high school, Tom chose to hit the road. Five years later he went in search of the answer to a hundred year old mystery, following the clues left by a man who died of pneumonia while ranting about 'a wall of gold, beyond the mirror.'
It all started with a date to the prom. Gabriel MacKenzie is a television actor unsure of himself and of getting back into relationships. He meets a young girl and their lives are changed.
When Emmie and Marie Vane pointed at a young Apache woman in a dusty New Mexico trading post and said they wanted her for a mother, the whole territory held its breath. Cosay had survived alone in the hills for five years, trusting no one and belonging nowhere. Coulter Vane had spent eighteen months drowning quietly in grief. Neither of them was looking for what walked through that door. But two little girls saw clearly what fear keeps hidden — and sometimes the brave