Clovis Pruitt is in trouble again. This time he is in jail, awaiting a trial by jury where he is sure to be hanged for allegedly stealing a mule. Will Pa be able to save him? Will Clovis avoid the hangman's noose? Another Muddy Fork tale, designed to entertain and delight.A Muddy Fork Short Story.

Uncle Wooster manages to get himself arrested every winter so he can live off the County in Muddy Fork's warm jail. This year everything changes. He has been offered the position of Deputy Sheriff. Will this mean the end of Uncle Wooster? 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.

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.

Jake Turner had fallen in love with the prettiest girl he'd ever seen. The only problem was - she might still be in love with her old boyfriend. There was only one way to find out. Would he find true love, or end up with nothing? A Muddy Fork story

Big Mama is a mountain woman and she has a lot of kids and she is not married. her kids are accused of stealing off people in the community of Muddy Fork, the town folks called a special court session on the matter. take a read and find out what happen.

Stealing an Apple gets young Jake in more trouble than he bargains for.Young Jake learns a hard lesson and when he falls headlong from the Apple tree, and is caught by a forked limb, leaving him upside down tangling like a shirt on a cloth line.Will young Jake be saved from his unfortunate accident?

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?

A compilation of over twenty short stories that revolve around the folk who live in the fictional Township of Muddy Fork, USA. Written in true hillbilly style, and with an authentic voice, by the author, who currently resides in Kentucky.While totally fun to read, The Folks of Muddy Fork offers a glimpse of some of the realities people have in an isolated culture in the backwoods of the Bible Belt, before the mechanization of agriculture uprooted their way of life. This is a view o...

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