Just in time for Christmas! It took a while, but I finally finished the final chapters in the short novel I worked on during the football season. It’s now available on Amazon for $2.99. I plan to follow Seth’s lead and donate a portion of the proceeds to the Red Raider Club, and I appreciate […]
Dream No Little Dreams
Chapter 7 Jarrell sat alone in his chair and watched an obviously injured Pat Mahomes and his Red Raiders struggle against Kansas State on Saturday night. As is usually the case with Texas Tech, there were flashes of brilliance; occasional glimmers of hope. But in the end, despite the defense playing better than expected, Texas […]
Dream No Little Dreams
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Smoke fills the screen and slowly begins to clear, revealing what appears to be a devastating accident scene on some unknown, rural highway. Two badly damaged cars lay on their side in the middle of the road. A tanker truck is overturned in the bar ditch, leaking fuel. […]
Dream No Little Dreams
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 […]