Archive - Storytelling on the Plains

It never really goes away

Thanks for reading Storytelling on the Plains!

Jul 3 •

June 2025

The majority are with you

Jun 24 •

But you never went to war

Jun 18 •

February 2022

The force has always been with me

Note: I wrote this story two years ago, but only about a dozen people ever saw it.

Feb 22, 2022 •

I still don't want to watch your kids

I walked through the front door to my house after school and heard my mother yell, “You're babysitting at the Shipman's house tonight.”

Feb 15, 2022 •

January 2022

Dragging the Queen

There isn’t much to do in a hotel room other than watch what’s on the television.

Jan 31, 2022 •

A squirrel steals a black walnut off Gram’s back porch.

Jan 18, 2022 •

It was another bright and sunny day in Dar es Salaam.

Jan 10, 2022 •

The secret annex

Otto Frank, businessman and father of Anne Frank.

Jan 3, 2022 •

December 2021

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