A collection of short stories, some true, others fiction. Which is which? You may be surprised.A boating trip gone bad, an untrained serviceman, of brothers and birds, moments that are remembered, a day in the life, a coming of age much too soon; these are some of the stories told here. Short stories that have meaning, perhaps make you think, chuckle, reflect, identify as someone you know, maybe even see yourself within these characters.

A story of contrasts, of people with separate, yet connected lives, whose paths converge and the effects of those interactions change each of them forever. A strong, centered woman, her star-crossed son and a younger, 'fortunate' boy from the East, each of distinctly different backgrounds, transform each other's life in a way that could have never been foreseen.

Life is full of twists and turns, as the saying goes, but you never know when that life-altering event is coming at you. Some twists can turn out very fortunate, while others ... let's just say, there are others you wished you hadn't had to endure. Life can be a tough teacher, and the test tougher yet. Grown Fast and Hard - A contemporary short story set in the American West.

Texas Ranger Tim Bannon has been assigned to track down a gang of vicious outlaws who have been robbing and murdering all over south-central Texas. However, he has a problem. His old horse is no longer up to the task of traveling for days on end chasing renegades. Tim is forced to take the trail on a rented livery stable mount. Before he finds his quarry, he will discover that Rangers don't always have only two legs... some have four.

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes... though they're not usually escaped convicts.Just like seventeen-year-old Violet Seymour, whose got a criminal record so thick you could use it as a doorstop. Being the only person to ever escape the highest maximum security prison in the steam-and-clockwork powered nation of Arcova, everyone and their mother wants Violet's head on a plate. So when Violet is suddenly thrust into a heroic role, being a link in an ancient bloodline of heroes, she...

Egan, the Story of Two Families. The sons of Dean and Egan and several others with them, do not feel the restrictions of details over action against a lawless leader of a rapacious gang of bad bad people.In this case, chasing these people into a foreign country is not limited by border agreements or political grandstanding. It's only limited by the imaginatioThis is the second volume in the series, Dean and n of the good people who find that right is merely doing the proper things t...

The Coffee Pot Mining Company is on the way to the California gold fields when a dying man's treasure map sidetracks them. Turns out prospecting for gold is a lot like work. With bits of colour in the pan, the mother-lode must be around there somewhere. A short story in the western tradition.

Prospector Dan Rourke is always the first one to go in springtime and the last one out in the fall. This year, he’s left it a bit late. After days on snowshoes, and with night falling, he desperately needs to warm up. The Ghost Saloon still stands, but he’ll burn it down if he has to.

A lonely old prospector is found dead in his own doorway, shot with his own gun. Lambert had few friends and even less money. Word is, he didn’t have an enemy in the world. Marshall Mike Baxter isn’t buying it—not until he knows a lot more about poor old Lambert. A short story in the classic Western tradition.

"Wet Medicine Dreams" is Kim Campion's second collection of short stories about sex, violence, aliens, and personal and planetary growth. There's a lot of westerns in this one. Inside you'll find a lonely prospector who falls in love with an alien way out in the woods one night, a young vegetarian cowboy and expert pistolman out to avenge his family's death, a little girl who has an interaction with Bigfoot in the future Glacier National Park, and some other more contemporary stories like ...

in 1965 the british special forces (the sas) were active in sarawak and kalimantan....what used to be borneo. 23 years previously gema had been born into a community deep in the borneo jungle totally detached from civilization as we know it. as a teenager she was sent to a catholic community to learn a different way. she learned several languages and learned to read and write but her sense of tribal honor,history, culture and responsibility ran strong in her veins. sergeant major George mu...

Katharina, the daughter of a Czech Duke and her maid Sheba are captured by the Comanche War Chief, Great Eagle and taken to his camp in central Texas. The Duke appeals to Sam Houston, the President of the Republic of Texas to rescue the young women. Houston call upon the Texas Ranger, John Haley and his Rangers to find the young women and to destroy Great Eagle's camp. John saves Katharina, but he cannot save his heart. If you liked my story, please read the expanded version, A Texas Texas...