• Useless Information, Revised
    Mar 26 2025

    A country boy's embarrassing first piano recital.



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    13 mins
  • The Glow of the Cauldrons, Revised
    Mar 25 2025

    A five-year-old country boy's spooky visit to an old-fashioned hog killing in progress after dark.



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    18 mins
  • The Bank Robbery We Predicted
    Feb 21 2025

    The odd circumstance of two country boys predicting the robbery of the First State Bank of Matador, Texas, in 1966.



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    8 mins
  • The West Texas Shipwrights
    Feb 20 2025

    Three pre-teen country boys build a boat, Miss Pee Don Wee, out of corrugated sheet metal and launch it into a pond with predictable disastrous results.



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    14 mins
  • Dad's Rough Dismount
    Feb 19 2025

    Getting thrown off of a horse is rough. Getting thrown off at a full gallop is rougher. Getting thrown off at a full gallop onto a barbed wire fence is unimaginable. But it happened to my dad.



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    9 mins
  • The Salvation of the Country Soul
    Feb 12 2025

    Certain peculiarities of a country town are explained through the spiritual experiences of a typical church service through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy.



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    14 mins
  • The Great Escape
    Feb 11 2025

    The story of a five-year old boy and his three-year old sister escaping from a babysitter and finding their school teaching mother at work in a small rural Texas town.



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    8 mins
  • Our Pietistic Amusical Trifecta
    Feb 11 2025

    A country church pianist, choir director, and congregation struggle to perform three different hymns during a Sunday morning worship service.



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    13 mins