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Category: average length short stories

approximately 2000 words

1885 Dumbfounded Duo

(1,561 words)

Published January 2, 2020
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1885, entrepreneurship, fascination with pranks, historical fiction, humor, private people, River Avenue, San Angelo Texas, Scavenger hunt, Shivaree, short story, Twin Buttes, United States

1878 Shoulder Buddies

(1,610 words)

Published December 21, 2019
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1878, bad luck, betting, Black soldiers, Buffalo Soldier, Camp Charlotte, Concho River, double jacking, entrepreneurship, fascination with pranks, Fiction, Fort Concho, greed, Head of the Middle Concho, historical fiction, Middle Concho, pranks, Road building, San Angela, short story, Soldiers, string tricks, The Boy and the Filberts, West Texas

1886 Freedom Figure

(2,192 words)

Published June 21, 2019
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1886, 4th of July, compassion, Hispanic, historical fiction, Lady Liberty, Magnolia Hotel, Mexican-Americans, New York City, Nimitz Hotel, pareidolia, San Angelo, Seguin, squatters, Texas, United States, West Texas

1889 Face It

(2,698 words)

Published January 19, 2019
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1889, bad luck, barter, brisket seasoning, cheese, competition, Dairy, entrepreneurship, historical fiction, ice factory, Kirby Park, Money problems, Moravia Texas, refrigeration, San Angelo, short story, superstition, Texas, tithing, Titus, Tom Green County, United States, Windmill

1800 Polygamy Strain

(2,157 words)

Published January 2, 2019
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1880, child snatchers, Comanches, dying trail, family politics, fear of dying, historical fiction, homeschooled, Lipan Flats, nature, Pam Backlund, polygamy, prairie life, rain, short story, sod home, Texas, Tom Green County, United States, unreliable narrator, West Texas

1990 Saving Them: A Tragedy

(2,207 words)

Published December 25, 2018
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1990, modern times, science teacher

1889 Jumping to Conclusions

(2,022 words)

Published December 25, 2018
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1889, Balloon launch, Bronte, Christian, Club feet, compassion, Cuchillo Negros Mountains, Devil's Courthouse Mountain, historical fiction, Immaculate Conception Church, Jenny, prairie, romance, San Angelo, short story, Sugar Loaf Mountain, telegrams, Train Station, trumpet, West Texas

1887 Breaking the Bank

(1,482 words)

Published December 25, 2018
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1887, addiction, bad luck, Coffee, Cyclone, entrepreneurship, historical fiction, Miss Mollies, parody of Miss Hattie, River Avenue, River City, romance, Security Bank, short story, United States, West Texas

1886 The Mutt

(2,038 words)

Published December 25, 2018
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1886, alcoholism, compassion, daughters, historical fiction, letter, orphan, Pam Backlund, romance, San Angelo, San Angelo Ice Factory, short story, Temperance Society, United States, West Texas

1885 Awaken Dr. Bell

(1,927 words)

Published December 25, 2018
Categorized as average length short stories Tagged 1885, Alexander Graham Bell, American Sign Language, ASL, Austin Texas, compassion, conflicting beliefs, Darwinist Perspective, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, deafness, historical fiction, Lip Reading, Milan Conference of Deaf Educators of 1880, Miles Grove, North Concho River, picnic, San Angelo Texas, Shoe shop, short story, Tom Green County, United States

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