Novel I’m Not Writing – Gunsmoke – Chapter 5

Mar 7, 2008 | Books - Cut Scenes

Chapter FiveThe door opened and Chester and I both stood up fast. It was a woman who came through the door. Francie – Clay’s widow. “Matt! Matt, I’ve got to talk to you!”I gave Chester a look. He shrugged. It was almost an apology. Then he went back to looking out the...

Novel I’m Not Writing – Gunsmoke – Chapter 4

Mar 6, 2008 | Books - Cut Scenes

Chapter FourI had a problem. I had to do some investigating. Figuring why the Dutchman had shot Clay wasn’t that hard – the reward – but figuring why Clay had tried to rob the bank in the first place was still eating away at me. Clay was dead, and most would say that...

Novel I’m Not Writing – Gunsmoke – Chapter 3

Mar 5, 2008 | Books - Cut Scenes

Chapter ThreeI had the kid pretty well settled in on the couch of the office. Chester had locked his little bundle of belongings in my desk drawer, but the kid didn’t seem in a real hurry to get anyplace. He sat watching me as I went through the circulars and did the...

Novel I’m Not Writing – Gunsmoke – Chapter 2

Mar 3, 2008 | Books - Cut Scenes

Chapter Two“All right, Chester, kick the door shut,” I said. Chester did, and the crowd got noisier on the other side. I knew it wasn’t the end of things.Ziegler was standing in the middle of the room, his chins working up and down as he said, “Marshal, I don’t kill...

Novel I’m Not Writing – Gunsmoke – Intro

Mar 1, 2008 | Books - Cut Scenes

For the next Novel I’m Not Writing, we move on to something I whipped up for my father a few years back. After reading Robert B. Parker’s GUNMAN’s RHAPSODY, I really wanted to write a western. But I had too much on my plate at the time, both in...