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?

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.

Walter might have been a simple-minded man, but he had the perfect innocence of a child. Why then would two mean-spirited young men decided to play the cruelest of practical jokes on him?A true 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

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?

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

Denver Cob is and ordinary corn farmer, who has a pretty wife named Sadie.Denver has just found out that his wife has been seeing another man right under his nose so to speak.Denver resorts to ask a friend of his that lives not far from his farm for some sound advice on how to get his problem resolved.Will Denver be about to solve his problem with his friend advice or will he lose his wife to the other man?

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.

The family is out hoeing corn...arguing about religion as usual...when an unexpected storm drives them to the root cellar. Will disaster bring them together, or drive them apart? A Muddy Fork story

Dick Wilson worst fear comes to pass when he is forced to walk by the old backwoods graveyard.In his youth he had heard many stories of gobbling and ghosts that abide in the old forsaken place.Will Dick make it to his cabin or will he meet his demise?

Charlie White had spent ten years of his life for a murder he never committed. His old friend is determined to prove his innocence. Can a simple splinter solve a decade's long mystery?

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.