Author: Slim Randles

I was studying my card when the guys walked in for coffee. “What did you get?” asked Doc. “D-24.” “Just

The evening was one of those that come back to you time after time, year after long year. It comes

“Sanctimonious siphons, it’s hot!” said Dud, sitting at the philosophy counter and turning over his coffee cup for action with

Mrs. Doc watched the dancers swirl around the cleared hardwood floor of the Legion hall, and smiled to see her

The annual Fourth of July picnic is a celebration of time and freedom. We’d all watched the parade, earlier, because

Steve looked out from the turret of his cabin and watched the sun set behind the mountain. Branding is over

Steve reached up and put his cup of coffee on the floor of the turret in his cabin, then climbed

Billy slowly raised one eyelid and looked around. Boots and Desdemona, Aunt Ada’s cats, were curled up, one against his

Windy’s pickup truck was the third one to arrive at the scene of the fender bender. Both cars pretty well

Marjorie Pincus looked out the front window at her husband, Marvin, and smiled. No matter how old he gets, she

Windy Wilson was cruising around the other day, in search of an audience, but the cold drove him indoors…at the

Well, the first archery tournament to raise money to buy warm clothes for some of the local kids is now

Well, it’s Fall and time once again for Doc’s annual golf tournament to raise money for kids’ winter clothes. But

There’s something so satisfying about getting out of bed when the world is still dark and quiet and resting. Making

In honor of his entirely fictional pet squirrel, Doc is calling the annual golf tournament the Chipper Invitational this year.

It was Thursday again. Mabel Adams asked at the desk to be sure. “Thursday all day, Mabel,” the girl said.

It was lunchtime at the sale barn on the edge of town and the guys were milling around. They didn’t

“Bert looks good this morning, Doc,” Dud said, quietly. Three stools down the counter, Bert smiled and said, “Yes, I

Days like this, said Doc, a guy has to get out and get his yard work done early, before it

We all watched as the flag came by. It was the first thing in the parade, of course. Great big

I’ve discovered the wonderful world of petty mail-order junk. I love it. A computer is a grand tool for opening

It is the heat that defines us this time of year. Defines our sweaty days with the brassy skies and

Delbert’s at it again. You know Delbert McLain, our local chamber of commerce? He’s the guy who wants to bring

Steve, the tall cowboy of us philosophy types, was riding a young horse through town the other day to get

“So why do we salute the flag, kids?” said Abraham Lincoln Bahdziewicz. Woodrow Wilson Bahdziewicz, the oldest of the Bahdziewicz

For years now, Herb Collins has been helping Santa by donning the red and the beard and the tassels and

There is a nighttime sweetness and hope that hovers over us this time of year here at home. This is