Workingman Stories

The rules over here seem simple. 1. Believe in god 2. Work the land 3. Marry a woman and have children 4. Don't show weakness But it's not so easy for everyone, including me, to follow all the rules. Written in 2020, just want it out of my drafts.

A girl cheats on her boyfriend and he starts killing her lovers one by one

Some places never let you go. After three years of chasing light across deserts, coastlines, and foreign streets, Harper Lane comes home to take a break. Just a season. Just long enough to breathe. She tells herself she doesn't belong here anymore. But the land remembers. So does Cade Mercer. Quiet. Controlled. Untouchable. Cade works the woods and private acreage that wrap around their small town. He understands boundaries. Property lines. Territory. And Harper just crossed one. The girl who once wandered into his woods with a camera is back - older, sharper, harder to read. She says she's only staying temporarily. Cade doesn't believe her. Because the way she looks at the land hasn't changed. And neither has the way he looks at her. In a town where nothing is forgotten and lines aren't meant to be crossed, Harper and Cade will have to decide: Are some places meant to be escaped... Or claimed?

A short, political scene, about workers and the social trap of submission to authority. Or a fun short about horses, whichever is fine.

A short story collection of seven stories featuring stories of the working man.