"Brothers, I swear this before The Most High, you come for this woman because she's Indian, know that she is my wife, if you want to touch her, you'll have to go through me," Mamadou Kidega said angrily, holding the machete firmly in his right hand as he stepped in front of his pregnant wife Priyanka Chuttani-Kidega, protectively shielding her from Idi Amin'...
As we headed off toward town, I tried to think of what might have happened. We soon had to slow to an easy lope as the light was failing. We didn't want the horses to be injured by stumbling in the near dark. That would make it just that much longer getting there. The arrival of dusk took me by surprise. Where had the day gone? I knew the girls had let me s...
The tribal practices of the American Indian were totally misconstrued by the pragmatic attitude of the highly religious imperial invader - that had inhumane behavior, as observed by the Indians. Unfortunately, the White man's behavior was identified after the damages occurred, leaving the bewildered Indian to use whatever ingenuity they could come up with...
There were no commercial flights to San Cristobal. Xavier offered to fly me down in his Lear jet, but when I checked on it I was told that the runways there were too short even for executive sized jets. So I took a Mexicana flight to Tuxtla Gutierrez -- a horrible industrial town in the middle of a raspy desert -- and from there hired a local pilot to fly me...
The next morning early Roger left his "home" and headed for the meadow for more deer. This time he killed two, field dressed them and drug them back to his camp for processing. One he hung over his fire to roast whole as he had done before. The other one he cut thin strips from and hung over another fire made mostly of hickory to smoke and preserve into jerk...
Wow!! I grew up reading stories about the wild west. Now I get the chance to write one. I want to thank Randi for her vision and leadership, in setting up this event, as well as for her super editing. Toss in my buddy Pixel the Cat, too. He catches things that mere mortals miss. I hope you enjoy my little tale. * I hated O'Brien. The fucker came over in f...
My thanks go out to my volunteer editor "Wires" for his help making this story a much better read. As always, errors remain mine. Roger and his new group of colonists made it back to Birmingham in mid June. He was extremely anxious to see what progress was made on the tasks he left his men to work on when he departed. He had assigned the blacksmith and hi...
He wondered if she celebrated every Earth Day in the same way as this day by walking around naked. He wondered if she had celebrated Earth Day with any of her other boyfriends, those who had come and gone before him. He hoped he was the one and only, the first boyfriend that she had celebrated Earth Day with, only with someone as beautiful as she was, he dou...
By Woodmanone copyright May/2012 Another story of the old West that takes place in the turbulent, exciting, and sometimes bloody time just after the Civil War. I've taken some literary license with this story but several of the characters, events, and situations are based on fact. They are part of our country's history. Constructive comments, critiques, a...
These are my reluctant New Year's Eve Resolutions. Can't you tell? I'm posting them late. Normally, I don't make them because I don't keep them and then I feel bad that I failed in my quest to better myself in the New Year. This year is different. This year, I'm motivated. This year, I'm going to do it. "Hey, Freddie, I heard you were making a list of New...