©2015 1 - Cinnamon Two sticks walk into a bar. That’s not a joke. It’s simply the way this story begins. The bar? - The High-Bar Club, Beamtown’s social center for the highbrow and the hopeful, those who have wealth and those who wish for it. Politicians, playwrights, real estate developers, doctors, lawyers, and all who wish to run with that crowd, keep the club filled to capacity, conspicuously consuming good food, good drink, good entertainment, and great dancing; all offered in artificial … [Read more...]
STICK PEOPLE – A Serial
Subscribe as a follower, at the bottom-left of the page, so you can stick with the story. Windy Branch has trekked to Beam Town from way out in the sticks to find work, any job that will pay enough wooden nickels to stem the eminent clearing of her parent’s ranch - stick horses. She meets Cinnamon and Peppermint, waitresses at the High Bar Club. They introduce her to the dashing Walker Cane who hires her for secretly thorny reasons, and his son, Striker, who secretly falls in love with her. … [Read more...]
GIANT CHICKEN ELECTRICAL COMPANY
If there’s a job to do, but no one ever does it, will it ever get done? When no one checks for errors, and those errors escape into the wild, can they ever be corralled back again? For example: I draw house plans. I use a computer, now, but years ago, plans were drawn by hand with a pencil and paper. If a builder wanted to re-use a set of plans, and needed to flip or reverse those plans - maybe so the driveway would be on a particular side of the house - but the builder didn’t want to pay to … [Read more...]
No Less Strong
“You’re no less strong if you tear-up just a little when you sit naked on a barbed wire fence.” The 'fence' could be grief, It could be pain, It could be loss, It might even be real barbed wire. The point is : We are naked to the entire world, So, when bad 'stuff' happens, We're in this together, And it's ALL okay. AB Go to my home page and buy a great story for fun reading - HERE. To read more free Andy Bozeman stories, GO TO THE STORY SHELF. … [Read more...]
Music of the Winter Pond
...I asked my grandmother, “What did you do when you were a little girl, and didn’t have TV or radio? How did you play?” She told me odds and ends about the games she played .... Then she added, “…but in Ireland, my great-grandfather use to play music with the ice on a pond.” We miss so much in life, things that are truly awe inspiring, like musical ice. You may have never actually heard it, or even heard of it. I’ve never heard it myself, but my grandmother, who also … [Read more...]
Autumn and Summer
It's September First on the calendar, but I don't think Nature's looking. The rains last week made everything grow. The recent heat dried it all out again. This morning saw an Autumn dawn. The temperature was cool like Fall, the air had the scent of dried leaves, again like Fall, yet that crisp aroma is rising on heated waves of grass flavored steam, a signal that Summer is far from letting go. The breeze is warm, the Sun is bright, and the Cicadas are singing like it's their last song. Autumn … [Read more...]
Do You Remember the Field?
... he gave her in his poem the one thing that eased her distress, old age. But he didn’t stop there. His words included an imagined history of their time together. As death approached, ... her gaze was clear, fixed on the face of her husband as, by the light of a single candle, he read, and read again, his written words, the celebration of their history that could never be, and yet, because of their love for one another, would be a love story for all time. I stumbled across a song today, WHEN … [Read more...]
Captain of Ararat
In rural 1900's Alabama two life-long best friends take divergent paths. One defends the law, the other defies it. Both love a woman. She bears a daughter to one. The other kills her, and believes he has killed the daughter. … [Read more...]
My Dad, His Church, and College Football
In case you’re reading this far in the future, this is Saturday January 3, 2015. It’s the end of the main week of college football bowl games. Auburn lost their bowl game. It’s also after the first game of the first playoff for college football – Alabama lost. I realize this is a sore subject and a moment of great pain for fans of either team, but it would’ve been a moment of delight for my father, the Methodist minister. He wouldn’t like it because any team lost, but because if the right teams … [Read more...]
Stupid Auto-Correct
I’m writing a new story called SEX & DRUGS. It’s about a Hindu pharmacist from India who gets into trouble when…….wait a minute……. Stupid voice dictation auto-correct…. The title is SECTS & DRUGS. A Hindu pharmacist from India….. Oh, forget it. The moment’s gone. Go to my home page and buy a great story for fun reading - HERE. To read more free Andy Bozeman stories, GO TO THE STORY SHELF. … [Read more...]
Roberta’s Pyramid
She believed that if she positioned a certain part of her body at a specific point inside the pyramid, all the powers of the universe, cosmic and spiritual, would condense to create an irrepressible psycho-physiological, hormonal rush, ending in a much sought after finale. When she said, "I'm hiring you to find that spot," I was confused, because I didn't know which spot she meant, the pyramid's, or her's. option 2 She believed that when she engaged in a specific physical activity, … [Read more...]
000- UPCOMING TITLES
Just to tease you mercilessly, here are the working titles of some of my stories in progress. Subscribe at the very bottom of this page, and be notified, as they are added. Working - Free Reads The Personal Integrity Oath Anne Two Point Oh The Little Black Card The Bushhog Fly-By Roberta's Pyramid - Part ll The Motherbird Encounter The Raspberries of Hispania The Sheik's Night Before Christmas The Backyard Bear - soon an addition to my book LIVING STILL WORKING - Kindle Short … [Read more...]
RIVER DEEP AND MOUNTAIN HIGH – Not Always A Good Home Site
PART 1 - RIVER DEEP For this story ‘River Deep’ equals ‘reckless decisions’ “We bought the seclusion,” she said. “It’s so peaceful,” he added. We’ll call them the Seclusion family. Their months-long search for a home site came to an end, when they found two acres in the back of a gated community. “We fell in love with it, and just had to have it,” she said. “We did,” he emphasized. Technically, they had bought some land leftover after a shallow stormwater retention pond was built for … [Read more...]
My Fortune Counts Too Fast
I went to the bank to cash a check given to me as payment for scouting a homesite for a client, $150. My job routinely takes me all over the four nearest counties. The shortest routes to two of them require crossing either of two toll bridges, so I always need dollar bills for toll-bridge money. The bank teller asked, “How do you want this money?” "I need toll-bridge money,” I replied. “So,........one’s, please.” He reached into a drawer, pulled out a packet of bills, and counted them … [Read more...]