J.C. Hulsey

She is a prostitute until she gets fired and has to leave town. She becomes the mail-order bride of a Baptist preacher in a small town in North Central Texas. She tells the marriage broker about her past but doesn’t tell her husband-to-be....

It seemed as if we were becoming more like bounty hunters than investigators....

"You ready to tell me what we're carrying?" "Why is it so important for you to know?"....

Them Dakota Territories is an outlaw's paradise, untamed and uncivilized, that's what I heard. It's a bad place fer a person to be going to, if you ask me....

Wanted! Brides for lonely men in Texas. He had sent money for expenses along with a train ticket....

"You got something in there fit for riding?" She nodded again. "Put it on, you're going with me." She turned and went behind the stagecoach....

Gabriel Montague, a newspaper man from Philadelphia, is searching for anomalies in the Appalachian Mountains to write a series of stories for his newspaper....

Cowboy is pursued by outlaw. Gets shot and cornered in cabin....

"I'm afraid, Murph," I said. "What if she won't accept a one-armed man?" She turned me loose and stepped back. I stood, letting her take a good look at me. The whole me. The half me....

This is a short story of a man hired to guard, as he puts it, a worthless stinky smelly mud hole....

Francis Gertrude O'Brian (Trudy), a rawboned 18-year-old freckle-faced redhead, is physically and mentally abused by her two sisters, then sexually abused by her neighbor boys....

Greed is an awful thing. It can take over a person's mind and consume all their energy, until it is brought to fulfillment in either of two ways....

I'm hated by ignorant people who don't realize that this is a job just like chopping wood or baking bread. Someone has to do it. I decided if I'm the one to do it, I'm going to be the best....

"You can't shoot me, you're a preacher." "I haven't always been a preacher. You and I have unfinished business from before I became a preacher"....

Cliff's on his way to Shortland, Texas to pick up the man who cost him his job. His best friend since childhood, Montgomery Mayfield....

Have you ever been to Hell? Hell, Texas? In that particular Texas town, Tebo Sterling, Texas Bounty Hunter was born….

We've been going together for almost two years, and she's always hinting that we should tie the knot. I glanced up from my thoughts, and I saw her...walking down the middle of the street....

The awful war was finally over and I was going home. I hoped I still had a home. I didn't leave on very good terms....

Brian Cavanaugh (alias the Kid Cavanaugh) has just reached the half century mark. People have always said if a gunfighter lives past 50, he is either very good or very lucky....

An old gunfighter told me one time, "The only way to stop the dreams is to let your opponent win. It's a guaranteed cure. No more dreams." "Sounds too final for me," I told him....