Boy from the Country is an autobiographical work of nonfiction, not quite my life story but a part of it. As I have said more than once about writing this kind of work, one of the biggest challenges is in having to decide what to leave out. I discuss this consideration in the Preface to the work:
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Under Heaven’s Own Blue has the subtitle of Classic Stories of the American West. This collection consists of one short story and three novellas. It was published by Thorndike Press in November of 2024.
The first story, “Truth and Principle,” has as its narrator a character named Henry Tresh, who is the narrator and sleuth in “Return to Laurel,” a story that did well for me a few years ago. In this later story, which was published in an anthology by Five Star, Tresh undertakes to solve the mystery of the death of the son of an older woman who has some apprehensions but wants to know the truth. Along the way, Tresh meets the deceased’s ex-wife and subsequent paramour, and he sticks to principle in his dealings with them.
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