The girls were seated at the table that was laden with food. Bear had acted with supreme dignity throughout what Adrian felt must be a trying ordeal for him. “I’ve good news and bad news, well…not bad news just some not so good news. First though I have to swear each of yo...
By design, the new Republic’s politicians garnered no salary of any kind. Adrian’s family and friends had taken up most of the slack, tending the fields and the stock during his absence, but the smokehouse meat was running low, so Adrian went hog hunting. Feral hogs had been a problem in Texas be...
He was still in shock over what was happening. Although he had been semi-prepared for this most of his life, he had never deep down believed it would happen. It had been an interesting idea, surviving an apocalypse. He had taken preparatory steps out of a sense that it would be foolish not to. Im...
McReary came riding up, his horse all a lather. Our ranch is sixty square miles and it takes several days for me to ride the fence, stopping occasionally to tighten a wire or make other repairs as I went. It isn’t that Pa is land-greedy, it’s that it took hundreds of acres of West Texas’ semi-ari...