Sweetwater Oklahoma

In the boughs chimes I'd strung years ago plinked an irate whangy melody like Jimi Hendrix raised up in Danang. I wished I could go on to the Fleur Rouge with my fishing pole but I knew that was impossible for my duty lay in finding and arresting my best friend who had finally killed a lawman. So begins Killing Scissor-tailed Flycatchers is Unlawful one in a collection of connected short stories in SWEETWATER OKLAHOMA. Sweetwater is a thriving small city of the modern prairie inhabited by a country of people common and curious at the same time a folk whose lives range from the earthly and discouraged to the sublime. SWEETWATER OKLAHOMA is a book full of surprises. We pull for a fugitive Indian godfather on the run. We visit a defiant lady rancher fighting to hold on to land and life. We watch an adulterous soap opera father trying to win back a son he has forsaken. Many more colorful citizens and their stories await us in this book to relish.