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The Montana sky is wide, coffee strong, and wounded souls are never turned away from Two Spirits Horse Ranch. When Jake finds a young stranger left for dead at the north gate, his promise to protect him draws the whole ranch into a fight against fear, memory, and the men who may return to finish what they started. Warm, funny, tender, and suspenseful, In the Barb is a Western romance about found family, survival, and the kind of love that begins as rescue but grows into home.

Have you ever wondered what happens in a furniture store after the lights go out? Neither have I. But here’s one story told from the point of view of one of the items waiting to be sold.

Prompt #265

Write a story that begins with a phone call at three in the morning.

Trevor insisted the house phone be on his side of the bed. There was one problem with that; Trevor was nearly impossible to wake up. One night, the phone rings at three AM. Julius has a hard time waking Trevor, but finally succeeds. Trevor finally answers the phone on the ninth ring. The phone call starts something they never could have expected.

Stuck in 2026 World Cup traffic, friends Leo and Marcus are on the brink of a massive fallout over Marcus's annoying, high-energy dancing. The tension is instantly broken when Barnaby, a time-traveling capybara, accidentally teleports into their car and uses a calming temporal field to fix the radio's vibe, saving the road trip.

In response to Prompt#320:

First line: “This tastes like shit!”

Stanley and Addison have a discussion over Addison’s latest cooking experiment.

Aboard a deep-space explorer vessel, a strict lieutenant and a playful chief engineer navigate the pressures of active duty through a secret romance. To melt his partner's rigid professionalism, the engineer uses his hyper-precise cybernetic touch to drive the lieutenant into a helpless state of ticklish surrender—turning a breathless, playful ritual into a deep anchor at the edge of the galaxy.

While working late to meet a strict deadline, accountant Arthur is accidentally teleported onto a commercial airplane by a time-traveling capybara. Using his golf umbrella and the creature's malfunctioning sci-fi collar, Arthur must quickly fix the quantum glitch to jump back to his office and finish his spreadsheet on time

A hopefully humorous look at places a golfball may wind up that wouldn’t be fun for the golfballs.

Once again we visit with Stanley and Addison. Addison appears to be as bad at golf as he was with duct tape.

A musically based story where a young guitar player takes over for a deceased member of a popular group and is guided by his ghost.

Every town has a history. Every town has stories that have been handed down through the ages . . . stories that tell of people or events that may, or may not, be real. Thompsonville is no different. In fact, this town probably has more than most. Here’s another one of them!