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The odd and unsuccessful scheme to claim a large part of Mexican Texas as the “Republic of Fredonia” IF YOU HAVE THE TIME, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT Read More

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A young girl's fascination with a bird. Read More

Tags: bird, james, texas, carli, irshad

Not one but two mass shootings yesterday, killing at least thirty and injuring so many more. When will someone stand up and say: 'Enough is enough!'? Read More

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This is an article I wrote about the Venue in Spring, Texas which was published on the NewsBreak app online recently. The original publication can be found by searching "The Venue" on the NewsBreak app on your phone. Read More

Tags: spring, texas, real-estate, robbed, apartments

Cody Schroder is orphaned at the age of ten years old after his father is killed in a car crash. He becomes the ward of the sheriff of Astatula. Can Sheriff Daniels turn Cody, and his life, around in a small west Texas town where a deranged mass murderer runs… Read More

Tags: murder, mystery, texas

He had just come home from Vietnam and all he wanted was to go back to work and lead a normal life. But things had changed far too much around his North Texas hometown. Fasten your seatbelt as Mark Weston takes you in his hot rod pickup truck at 100… Read More

Tags: texas, drag-racing, war-vet

Book / Humor

October 15, 2018

Reads: 1226

Comments: 5

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Real people overheard and experienced from the front seat of a taxi in a college town in Texas. The characters wrote themselves. I sold out not too long ago, so this book will probably remain unfinished, but I think that some of these good people should be heard. Read More

Tags: stories, taxi, texas, san-marcos

What are Monarch Butterflies? How do they migrate? How do they even SURVIVE migration? Learn all of that in The Ruler's Epic Journey! Read More

Tags: school, essays, homework, texas, monarch-butterfly

Typical weather in Texas in the summertime, as spring transitions into summer. Read More

Tags: fiction, weather, summer, texas

Ode to a shining star, a Texas rose, or maybe even some pantyhose! Read More

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The History of Galveston, Texas, begins with the archaeological record of Native Americans who used the island. The first European settlements on the island were constructed around 1816. The Port of Galveston was established in 1825 by the Congress of Mexico following its successful revolution from Spain. The city served… Read More

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A short story I wrote many years ago to deal with a trauma in my life when I was forced to move back to Ohio after my first wife left me for an ex-lover and eventually his own father. Read More

Tags: rain, biography, true-story, texas, story-telling

these few paragraphs describe my great great grand something. enjoy learning from the awesome majestic unicorn Read More

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A man has escaped the domestic frustration of his wife and children only to ultimately fall into the hands of something ungodly. Read More

Tags: horror, scary, ghosts, demons, texas

Book / Romance

December 17, 2015

Reads: 9381

Comments: 12

Shelves: 4

The Booksie Classic House

Michelle just finished her third year at college where she is studying Early Childhood Education. Her and her college roommate Andrea decide to spend the summer together at Andrea's parents house in Houston, Texas and work at a local camp for young children. Will she leave this summer the same… Read More

Tags: love, vacation, babies, changes, planes, chris, michelle, unexpected, texas, andrea, derrick

Jim Fontenot has returned to his small hometown of Buccaneer's Bay on the Texas Gulf coast after thirty years in the US Navy. He just wants to settle down and open a restaurant, but all is not as idyllic as he wishes it to be, and soon he finds himself… Read More

Tags: murder, mystery, crime, private, detective, cops, christi, investigator, texas, corpus

Poem / Poetry

October 23, 2015

Reads: 702

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

The Texas Board of Education, all Patriotic God Fearing Loyal and Patriotic Republicans and Real Sarah Palin Americans, have required the schools to use a history text that describes the Trans Atlantic Slave as having brought "Millions of workers" to the Americas and the slaves as reporting their owners as… Read More

Tags: happy, smile, dance, sing, slaves, master, texas, negro

Essay / Humor

October 12, 2015

Reads: 554

Comments: 2

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The unflinching reflections of a prodigal failure poet and writer of miserably insufferable wasted literature fesses up and comes out of the unpublished closet. Read More

Tags: poet, prose, literature, phony, texas, bukowski

A Short story written in Pure Texan Read More

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More than one serial killer finding one another in the same place, Really? I guess it's more about planning that happenstance, but Dog wouldn't know anything about that. She didn't get involved until well into this story, and she was never a suspect. Read More

Tags: murder, mystery, serial, dog, killers, ranch, texas, waco

A family writes about their encounters of the world around them through food and entertainment venues. Yelping all the way to the bank you could say. Reviews of local places in Houston, Texas are taken to the next level of humor and humility, with an utmost level of honesty. Enjoy! Read More

Tags: food, fun, movies, reviews, houston, texas, restaurants, yelp

An adventure at Texas Roadhouse in Houston. This article was published on the NewsBreak app in 2019. Read More

Tags: family, food, fun, house, dance, taxes, line, righteousness, steak, diapers, texas, roadhouse

Pleasure Pier is an amusement park located on a peninsula in Galveston, Texas. This piece describes a day that was shared by a mother and her son of which the memory will live on unto eternity. This article was published on the NewsBreak app in 2019. Read More

Tags: son, mother, galveston, texas

Book / Humor

September 02, 2015

Reads: 383

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This is actually a short story (possibly a novella) that I started a few years ago until I got distracted with other things. I decided I will put it up in chapters in order to force myself to finish it. It's about a family from Texas and the relationship between… Read More

Tags: humor, satire, story, short_story, small_town, novella, death_metal, texas, father_son

This is an article from Horn Sports about football and specifically the phenomenon of having the crowd behind your team. Read More

Tags: home, roll, university, tide, football, field, advantage, texas, alabama, lsu, oline, ut

Aztec Promotional Groep is trots als een van de meest professional en aantrekkelijke aanbiedingen bedrijf in Austin, Texas. Onze onderneming is ontstaan uit een slaapzaal aan de Universiteit van Texas in 1995. Wij zijn een verticaal geïntegreerd, en een multi-locatie bedrijf dat gespecialiseerd is in gedrukte en geborduurde kleding, grootformaat… Read More

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Unsere Firma macht Gebrauch von vertikal integrierten Automation in der Fertigung fur Bildschirm bedruckte und bestickte Kleidung, branding Spezialitaten, Banner, Buttons und design. Wir bieten unseren Kunden eine einzigartige Losung fur Markenartikel. Read More

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Rose Houston, American Street Cop and mulatto great-great-great Granddaughter of Sam Houston, responds to America's clarion call to service in the sandbox. This is the short fictional story of her last patrol in Eastside Baghdad. Read More

Tags: rape, iraq, murder, crime, kill, blood, police, baghdad, army, patrol, combat, terrorist, slaughter, ambush, texas

Micah grant is a rough and tough modern day cowboy. Keeping the ranching tradition alive along with his younger brothers, Jordan and Luke. he learns the hard way that family is the most important thing. In the middle of cout battle Micah finds out from an old hidden letter that… Read More

Tags: horses, western, cattle, jordan, luke, texas, micah, ranching

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