Jason B. Baker
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Farm kid & veteran turned suburban dad. I write Civil War nonfiction & Western/historical fiction, grappling with justice, character, & society in the American experience.
http://www.JasonBakerAuthor.com
https://thescribessaloon.substack.com/
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Echo Canyon
THE SUN WAS HIGH when they dropped into the third canyon that morning, hooves clattering loose shale, the sound echoing off rust-colored walls that offered no shade, no relief, and no end. The wind didn’t move down here. It hovered. Heat sat like a drunk on their shoulders, pressing down slow and mean.
By Jason B. Baker7 months ago in Fiction
Baptized in Mud
THE WATER WAS SHALLOW, but it felt like he’d landed on bedrock. Mud sucked at his shirt. His hat was gone, and somewhere upstream, a longhorn was bellowing like damnation itself. The herd kept churning through the narrow ford, hooves pounding the riverbed, flinging water and muck and everything else the beeves left behind.
By Jason B. Baker7 months ago in Fiction
The First to Stand. Honorable Mention in History Would’ve Burned This Page Challenge.
Washington, D.C. — November 20, 1862 The fire in the grate had long since surrendered to embers. Lincoln hadn’t noticed. He sat motionless at the table, coat off, sleeves rolled, ink-stained fingers drumming on the edge of a worn dispatch. Silence reigned, save for the sound of a mouse scratching within the wall and the clock ticking. Slow, almost spiteful.
By Jason B. Baker7 months ago in History
