Pa’s summons turns the Garley gang on its heels. — Nick the dog heard him coming four days out. Three days out we saw the sun-flash off his hat badge. I cocked my rifle at two days out. Speculation ran the gamut as to what the cloud of dust brought us. …

Western Subgenre: Indigenous Partnership — I looked it up and created Indigenous Partnership as the modern version of “Indian Wars” which we never want to hear about again. http://cuebon.com/ewriters/Wsubgenres.html I already wrote a few more chapters for Old Nick’s Garley so I wanted to find a subgenre that fit my bill in order to answer…

Small town secrets don’t lie — The challenge involves micro genres. I chose small town secrets. The first scene holds a carryover from the last chapter. The second scene hints at another secret that gets its reveal next week. Thank you to Zane Dickens and Paul Mansfield for the fun. I marched up to the table…

Small town kidnapping with British detective — I missed Old Nick that winter. In the spring he came to tell me the village was populated again. Miss Poke Bonnet swung by to tell me Miss D had grown strong running wild. “Want to meet her?” “No.” “She snuck around with her friends. …

“Don’t do it. I won’t go back. Don’t tell them anything.” — Now I can enter the serial challenge. I wrote Old Nick’s Garley within September’s theme(s). There’s even a hint of a campfire in this chapter to fit in with October’s theme, though ordinarily, I don’t want to mingle months. I just wanted y’all to have the last chapter. The full…