Writings
Grangeville, Chapter 3
One Week Later It was another lovely late spring evening and R.J. was just settling into his evening slice of apple pie and a cold glass of milk when Mrs. Burke came rushing into the saloon. “Oh thank the good Lord, Doctor Alcorn, there you are.” Mrs. Burke said,...
Grangeville, Chapter 2
Later that Evening Mrs. Burke returned with her daughter shortly after 11 o’clock that night. After a short examination to which Mrs. Burke was a witness, Alcorn found that Cora was past the point of no return, not much, but still too far gone to safely remove the...
Grangeville – Chapter 1
Harrison, ID June 12th, 1899 150 miles north of Grangeville Dr. R.J. Alcorn walked briskly down Main Street to the office next to Burke’s Haberdashery that he shared with Dr. Gerald Stackhouse, who specialized in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. He enjoyed quite...
A Century Apart, Same Verdict
This story begins with a very 21st-century theme and travels back in time to show that nothing much has changed. It started with my stepfather’s suicide which precipitated my mother’s death less than two years later. In the dark days directly following my...