In 1909 on a remote cattle station in the vast outback expanse of Western Australia, a young black Aboriginal servant girl in her mid-teens, was accused and convicted of stealing jewelry from the station managers’ wife. A young inexperienced attorney was assigned to go to Yorks Bluff to try the case. In those days, few…
Category: Tall Tales
Lost in the Amazon –
The Squire of Oddingly –
Bear Thoughts & Human Encounters –
The Sting of the Scorpian –
Saving The Runaway Train
In the great depression of the 1930’s, unemployed people in North America, frequently rode freight trains to commute across the continent in an endless search for work. In the freezing cold of winter and the stifling heat of summer, they rode in open and closed freight filled box cars, sometimes for days to reach a hopeful…
Bear Thoughts & Human Encounters
The Blue berries are good this year, the fish down in the rivers are fat, the grass tastes sweet in the valleys but a little dry in the high alpine. The squirrels and chipmunks are far too easy to catch and it’s not much fun, but like them, who don’t have the energy to run…
The Squire of Oddingly
A squire in medieval England was the bearer or keeper of the Knights Swords. The Knight was both the physical guardian and political strong man of the Lord of the land and community. The Squire, more often than not, eventually became a Knight himself. He was generally a respected figure in the community, usually with…
The Sting of the Scorpian
He was concealed in a dark shallow cave between two huge boulders that towered above him….midway up the mountain. It was the only outcrop of solid rock on the long decaying western slope of the most strategic vantage point on the war torn frontier. Looking through a narrow gap between the boulders with his binoculars…