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

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?

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.

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.

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.

Woodrow Bishop is a known crook, and swindler in Muddy Fork county ,and when Woodrow passes away his kinfolks are left with the task of having him a wake they find that Woodrow is still causing trouble even those he is dead.The old proverb that a man life is like a book that folks read while a man lives sure holds true .As one quote says plainly the day of a man death is better than the day of his birth sure holds true in the demise of Woodrow Bishop.

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.

Linda Lou is being courted by "Sir William" a rich young man. When he walks her home from a church meeting one day, Pa claims that his father stole part of his moonshine whiskey years ago. If he wants to court Linda Lou, he will have to pay a high price for the privilege.A Muddy Fork Short Story

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?

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?

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