Fred Wilson is convinced his wife is cheating on him. He seeks solace in Denver Short's bar, but what he hears makes him fighting mad.Sometimes it best just to listen to someone problems than it is to give them advice. and the saloon owner Denver Short learn that to be the truth.

Sometimes life plans don't always work out like they're suppose to.Young Jake and his father are on a mission to deliver four hundred pounds of cornmeal to the neighboring county trade store.Things are going good till they come to an old county bridge that has a ditch washed out right in front of it. Will they make it across the bridge or will their plan to deliver the cornmeal fail?

This is the tale of a farmer who is obsessed with winning the annual County Fair contest. He has grown the biggest and best watermelon for six years running, but has never won. Will this be his lucky year?

Martin Bishop is a corn farmer and he is tired of working his fingers to the bone while other men draws checks from the government for being diagnosed crazy.While Martin is plowing his corn field Crazy men are fishing and having a grand old time.Martin thinks it's high time that he goes off his rocker , so he can get on the free handouts like many of the hill folks men are doing.Will Martin get his crazy check or will something real strange happen?

When Young Jake Bishop try's to save his Moonshine drinking Uncle from killing himself from drinking so much he soon finds out that sometime the cure is worse than the disease.Will Jake succeed in his quest to save his uncle or will this turn out to be a worse disaster than drinking? Read to see what happens.

Our old shack isn't big enough to swing a tomcat in, and now that Uncle Tom has been laid off from the mine works, he's moved his brood in with us. Tom and his wife, Ruby Jewell, have six youngsters, and when you add me and my five sisters…well that makes for a mess of kids. Of course, Mammy hates to see Tom and his kids out under the sky, with nary a place to keep the rain off their heads, but she and Pappy works hard just to feed us, let alone nine more.How will these two Families...

The town miscreant, Clovis Pruitt, is in jail again, but this time he got local farmer, Denver Peabody, arrested along with him. The whole town of Muddy Fork is in an uproar over the trial, wondering how the judge is going to rule. Who knew you couldn't trade a gal for a cow?A Muddy Fork Short Story.

Going crazy can sometime get a man in high cotton. That's what happened to Martin Bishop when he decides to go crazy to get himself a government crazy check. Even the worst situations sometimes turn out for the best . That's what happens here.

Linda Kay is about to get married to a fine upstanding man. The problem is, he's never visited her shack, and now Pappy has spiked the punch bowl with moonshine.Will the wedding be a beautiful occasion...or a terrible disaster?A Muddy Fork Short Story.

Sixteen year old Jake is about to lose his father to tuberculosis. How will he manage the farm at such a young age? A simple tale of love and compassion.A Muddy Fork story

Lazy Jim was so lazy, he shot off his toes to avoid being drafted into the Army. This is the tale of when he entered the Lazy Man contest at the county fair, and how he was cured of pooping out his bedroom window. at least for a little while , but he meet his fate at the end of the story, buy the book to see what happen to lazy Jim. A Muddy Fork story

Two Muddy Fork farmers get themselves into a bit of a dispute over their land boundaries, so they decide to settle their problem at the local Muddy Fork saloon. Whiskey can make some men get as mean as rattlesnakes.Will their dispute be settled peacefully or will something worse happen.