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All
  • All
  • Adam Freestone
  • Carl Douglass
  • Cil Gregoire
  • Evan Swensen
  • Mary Ann Poll
  • Mary Flint
  • Murder and Mystery
  • Newsletters
  • Rebecca Wetzler
  • Rich Ritter
  • Robin Barefield
  • Steve Levi
  • T. Martin O'Neil
  • Valerie Winans
  • Victoria Hardesty
  • Walter Grant
Robin Barefield

Desperation

What would you do to survive? How far would you go? I don’t think any of us truly know our …

Robin Barefield

Pick Your Poison

Red Baneberry As an author of murder mysteries, my job requires me to kill people – on paper, at least. …

Robin Barefield

An Unfortunate Accident or a Daring Escape?

A plane disappeared near Kodiak Island on the evening of July 7th, 1979. Did it crash, or did the passengers …

Rich Ritter

Parts of Speech

NARRATOR (a bespectacled college professor dressed in tweed jacket and speaking in a soothing academic voice, each part of speech …

Rich Ritter

What Makes Writing Beautiful

An idea, a thought, an image dwells within; Hidden among the murky folds of conscious thought; Yearning to play within …

Rich Ritter

When to Stop Revising

Revising is often necessary to improve the quality of your writing. Nonetheless, there is always a moment in time when …

Rich Ritter

The Mind of a Villain

Before an inexplicable chill of nostalgia erupted from beneath his skull and shuddered down the core of his spine to …

Rich Ritter

Of Dime Novels and Shootists Excerpt from A Concise History of the West by Muireall Anne Ravenscroft

Regrettably, too many Americans (and likely many Europeans as well) have learned much of what they know of the old west …

Rich Ritter

The U.S. Cavalry

Excerpt from A Concise History of the West by Muireall Anne Ravenscroft The U.S. Cavalry: 1865 to 1890 This is …

Rich Ritter

A Young Man’s Greatest Failure

A few years ago, I had the unique opportunity to chat at length with a young man serving with Marine …

Rich Ritter

Last Stand at Beaver Creek

Joshua Hotah patted the neck of his faithful appaloosa, then scratched the strong-willed animal along the base of her coarse …

Rebecca Wetzler

The Road Less Traveled

The phrase The Road Less Traveled originated in 1916 from Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken, using the last stanza: …

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