Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 “Wake up, Em,” Jarrell whispered as he gently shook his sleeping daughter’s arm. “Wake up, I have to show you something,” Jarrell said again. Emily Robertson rubbed her eyes and sat up in bed. “What is it daddy,” she asked. “Follow me,” Jarrell said. The two quietly walked from […]
Dream No Little Dreams
Chapter 2 Hanging on the paneled wall above the bed in Joe and Kathy Martin’s rectangular bedroom was a weathered painting reminiscent of French landscape artist Claude Lorrain. A pale blue, cloudless sky sat atop a green prairie and a small cabin was nestled atop one of its slowly rolling hills in the portrait. It […]
Dream No Little Dreams: Fiction, family and football on the South Plains
Chapter 1 “What is it called, that thing where you remember things that already happened?” Jarrell Robertson asked in his scratchy baritone, a voice hoarsened by too many years smoking Marlboros and too many years breathing in the dusty, West Texas air. The boy, Nacho, looked up quizzically at the old man and said he […]