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Soldier of Fortune

by Bob Priddy on September 30, 2007

in Across Our Wide Missouri

The battle around the city of Rivas had been fierce before the American unit was forced to retreat.  One of the men left badly wounded and unconscience was a lieutenant from Missouri.  It was night when he regained consciousness.  Despite a leg wound, he pulled himself upright and stumbled in the darkness out of the city and found a horse on the outskirts of town.  He rode it sixty-five miles to safety and a long life of adventure.

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Brownies

by Bob Priddy 09/29/07 2:04 PM

On the average they could count on losing then more games than they won every year.  In sixty-one years they won more games than they lost only twenty-one times.  And in the fifty-three seasons after 1900, they achieved that high plateau only thirteen times.  They won five pennants, four of them before the turn of [...]

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Murder Case

by Bob Priddy 09/28/07 2:02 PM

The woman told the nun she was the aunt of a boy enrolled at the private school in Kansas City.  She said the boy’s mother had had a bad heart attack.  She was there to take the child to the hospital.  As they walked to the waiting car he told her about getting a dog [...]

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Centralia Massacre

by Bob Priddy 09/27/07 2:01 PM

They were waiting when the train arrived.  They knew the train would stop.  It had to.  They had placed railroad ties on the rails.  About 150 people were aboard the train coming in to Centralia that day, including a dozen soldiers.  Those soldiers would become target practice for "Bloody Bill" Anderson and his guerillas. One [...]

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A Poet’s Search

by Bob Priddy 09/26/07 1:59 PM

A man in a crowded drawing room longs to be everything he has never been.  He wants to be independent, attractive, unafraid to speak to women.  All his life he has pretended to be something he isn’t.  And now he stands alone in a crowded room, pondering his life, wondering if he dare change even [...]

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