Western Star by Marian Allen Leland pinned the tin star on his vest and buckled his gun belt. He fitted the immersion mask over his face and said, “Wild West Gunfight on.” The smell of hot dust and drying horse droppings filled the mask. He…
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For Jane Peyton, author of When Push Comes To Shove, who taught me how to find four-leafed clovers. Luck by Marian Allen They didn’t call him Poker Jack in prison because he liked to play cards. He was lousy at cards. They called him Poker…
Holly Jahangiri, who is a real person, twice won the right to have her name in a story. She has since become one of my go-to characters, and I’ve formed a tradition of writing Holly stories on the Sundays of StoryADay May. The Holly stories…