You Can't Blame That On Me
These are stories that I wrote in response to things that happened in my life while I wasn't in my right mind. Some of them are lies!
Yeah, I know, that's outrageous, but, I'm an author. I make things up!
Title Page
You Can’t Blame That On Me! byLarry K Thompson TEXT ...
A Word About David Osterhout
A Word About David Osterhout: Osterhout is a personal fri ...
Previous Publications Page
You Can’t Blame That On Me Other Books by Larry K. ThompsonFrom Berlin to TexasFrom Berlin to Texas Vol. ...
Dedication Page
Dedication This small volume is dedicated to my wife. She is ...
Table of Contents
Table of Contents The Wolf, Sleepy and Bushy & ...
The Wolf, Sleepy and Bushy
The Wolf, Sleepy and Bushy My brother says it never happened. but I know it did. ...
Snow White and the seven Army Dwarves
A writing prompt by Bexx Matthews, an author at ChapterBuzz.com, “Write at least 750 words that retell your favorite fairy ...
A Natural gas
A Natural Gas My wife and I knew that the Hill Country of Texas, and particularly ...
When I say "No"
When I Say, “No” ​When I tell you, “No, you can't ...
Don't Rock The Boat
Don't Rock the Boat The wrinkled old woman looked at me and said, “Wh ...
The Price of The Ancient Cowboy
The Price of the Ancient Cowboy I was standing out in the middle of a sect ...
Father's Day Apples
Father's Day Apples? Father's Day morning was....an interesting.... morning!My so ...
Doris and Bill, Living Legends
Doris and Bill, Living Legends A few years ago, my wife and I had gone to a town ...
Not exactly "Bump" in The Night
A number of years ago, James Thurber (1894-1961) wrote a story that became famous. It has appeared a number of anthologies. His ...
What We Will Be
What We Will Be As we were younger and the world was much simpler, knowing w ...
The Rooster, Egg, And Court House
If the story I’m about to tell you is a lie, I didn’t tell it first. I heard it right after I had stepped in manure, ...
Memories Are Made Of This
Bexx Mathews suggested this short story, “You are someone living in a world where the currency is your very own memories. ...
Who Could Have Guessed What The Demands Would Be?
Who Could Have Guessed What the Demands Would Be It’s almost dark outside. ...
On A Hog
On A Hog I just saw a guy that looked a lot like my buddy, David. Hawk is his mot ...
Whiz By Ir Drop In
Whiz By Or Drop In Grandpa Harvey Fletcher’s wisdom, at age 94, was someÂ? ...
The Bridge Again
The assignment was, “Write a short story of no more than 250 words about the statement, “The Bridge was out.”& ...
The Sound Police
The Sound Police Last week my wife and I were sitting in our car at a traffic lig ...
Tou Can't Blame That On Me
You Can't Blame That on Me For me, it was a small misunderstanding, but for ...
The Unexpected Thing
The assignment was to write Flash Fiction, 50 words or so, about a fishing boat just off a frigid northern coast. Including ...
Asking The Impossible
Asking the Impossible I was slowly but ponderously typing away on chapter 31 of m ...
Decision
Caution
At the Corner of Hope And Reality CAUTION When you read Words may SEDUCEYou Into ENLIGHTENMENT! & ...
Populating an Intellectual Wasteland
A couple of years before I decided to retire from teaching, I stood in the hallway at school observing the students as they pass ...
Three Guys Walk into a Bar!
Three Guys Walk into a Bar! I’m the kind of guy who is easy to get along wi ...
What does THAT mean?
What does That mean? I had driven an RV motorcoach before I bought my RV travel t ...
Marrying Time
Marrying Time May and June, the wedding season, have a lot of history behind them ...
They Did What at Christmas?
They Did What at Christmas? It’s funny about nursery rhymes, you know? We t ...
Only That and Nothing More!
Only That and Nothing More! A few years ago, I was still teaching at a rural 4 AA ...
On Marriage and Family
On Marriage and Family To the Sons and to the Daughters: Take heed and liste ...
The Irony of Valentine’s Day
The Irony of Valentine’s Day Valentine’s day is an age-old practice, ...
What?
What? Phil Hill, the high school teacher stood at the chalk board. He wrote tomor ...
The Asian Assassin
The Asian Assassin The three American Special Forces Army operatives were not in ...
You Can't Handle It
You Can’t Handle It On Sunday, the Doc gave Fred a well-known medical stero ...
The Obvious Answer
The Obvious Answer The doctor said, “The test results are back, and they co ...
Who’s Not Perfect?
The Writing challenge was to write a piece of Flash Fiction, 100 words, plus or minus. The subject was New Years’ Resoluti ...
Next, the novella, Black Bushwhack
Black Bushwhack byLarry K. Thompson &nbs ...
If My Wife Likes the Color, I’ll Buy It
If My Wife Likes the Color, I’ll Buy It I had a plan. I would go to my ...
Using Your Head
I found this online Using Your Head Exercising the Brain Exercise of the brain is as important ...
About the author
About the AuthorLarry Thompson grew up in El Paso, Texas. He lived an almost normal life, and barely escaped being labelled a ju ...
