As this crazy, mixed-up year of 2020 comes to an end some say it can’t come soon enough, but I will miss it. This year has given me many gifts in disguise that I didn’t recognize at first because I was too busy complaining. Some of those gifts were simple…

I hate to say it, I really do, but it is as plain as the nose on a warthog’s face, it really is. There never was a Mayberry, it’s just a television fantasy. In the real Mayberry, Gomer lives firmly in the closet. He daren’t tell anyone how he really…

Nobody likes to talk about death, but we’re all going to die. That’s a given. Some of us will die young when life is still so very fragile, exhaling our life in a breath; others will live so long that whispers of “it’s about time!” may be heard at the…

We were always told there was a curse in our family. So many men died young, including my own father. Talented family members wandered aimlessly, bad luck and poverty prevailed. It had to be a curse. …

The relationship between Jonathan and David is mentioned in the Books of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Bible. This story is based on those mentions without religious agenda. Although the story is fictional, the events mentioned did occur, according to the Bible. DAVID David awoke, his dark eyes blinking…

Extremely Dangerous | Teresa Smithers on Patreon Originally published at www.patreon.com You know how a sound in the night can make you freeze, listening, not even breathing, every nerve screaming, every hair standing on end? Well, that’s how I felt. Only it wasn’t at night. It was a hot Sunday sundown with the fan Joel always kept…

NOTE: This story is based on a true experience as told to the author many years ago. As discussion on behavior between the sexes continues, it is worth noting this “me, too” story. . . The desert, lying under a thick blanket of stars, was silent except for the hoots…