Category: Eric’s Fiction

The Arroyo

Image by Lynn Underwood Rebecca guided the buckboard down into the arroyo, the “highway” back to Rattlesnake Gulch. The problem of Josiah weighed on her heart. On that terrible day, three months earlier, she had torn desperately at Josiah’s pants…

Rattlesnake Gulch

The cowpoke rode into town on a broken down horse, wearing a shabby Stetson and a greasy, ragged duster coat. Except for the tarnished silver spurs over his nondescript boots, no one would have paid him any heed. He hitched…

Banded Together: A Ghost, a Paper Route and a Rubber Band

  By Eric Beversluis   Originally published at medium.com. Rev 2020-08-03 Image:Albert Payson Terhune 1872–1942 collection, Special Collections, The Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain. Modified: EHB. * * * When I started delivering morning newspapers from…