Overview
Shorts (4 Tales from 3 Decades) by James Edwin Branch
Decades
I hope you like these selections. The reason that I call them “Decades” is because I wrote them in three different times. I put them together for me as much as I did the reader. It shows how much I’ve changed through the years and how much I’ve progressed as a person.
“Along the High Trail” I wrote in 2009 for someone in Colorado. They wanted a story that included the town of Silverton. I studied Silverton on the Internet and wrote a story about a traveler who passed through the town.
The second story I wrote for Readers Digest back in the early 1990’s. I was really excited about entering the story contest they were holding. After putting it together and mailing it off, it was returned to me marked “UNSOLICITED MATERIAL.” Needless to say, that was my last experience with them. “The Adventure of Willis Hornsby” has never been read by anyone until now.
The third story I wrote in the mid 1980’s. Yes, before 911 and all this talk about terrorism. Even before Clinton was the U.S. President. I saw a news item about banning biological warfare, and boom, “It Happened in Pinewood” was born.
The last of this group is a murder mystery. Read along as I try to tell you about the murder of Mavis Hawks. She was a singer that lived in my neighborhood.
There have been some minor updates, but for the most part, they are as I originally wrote them. Hope you enjoy them.
James...
