Six Points In Time

By Rod Wright

Six Points In Time are six short stories about young people that take place over the last one hundred and fifty years. The first point in time is 1874, ten years after the American Civil War. Sarah get's into trouble trying to sew her wedding dress on a new fashion sewing machine. The second point in time is 1934 during the Great Depression. Charlie wants his own horse, but his folks can't afford to buy him one. The third point in time is 1954. Robert moves to a new school and is told by the other boys that pretty girl setting beside him is a witch. The fourth point in time is 2000. On a flight back to Dallas Professor Haley discovers that the young passenger setting next to him is a genius. The fifth point in time is 2004. A grandfather tells his grandson how fifty years before, he handled a high school bully. The final point in time is 2016. Three middle school kids meet a creepy clown

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rod Wright
• Release date: Dec 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370187911

Rod Wright

I received from Baylor University a BS degree with a major in biology and a minor in geology. In the United States Air Force, I was as a military public health specialist.After the Air Force, I worked as a city health inspector in of Beaumont, Texas. Later, I was employed by the Texas Department of Health. First working in the Product Safety Division, and then transferring to Radiation Control, I retired as the Radiation Control Program Manager for the Dallas/Fort Worth region.I have been married to the same wonderful lady for forty 48 years. We have two children and four grandchildren.I have had articles published in the Grand Forks Air Force Base news paper, The North Texas Health Physicist news letter, the Texas Gun Collector's magazine and the Dallas Arms Collector's News.My current interests are my family, reading, writing, and collecting antique firearms.The wife and I live live in Texas.

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Six Points in Time

1874, 1934, 1954, 2004, 2014, 2016

By Rod Wright

Smashword Edition

These stories are fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author's imagination are use facetiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, businesses or locations is entirely coincidental.

Contents

Miss Sarah and the Sewing Machine 1874

Charlie and A Horse Named Comanche 1934

Robert Meets Betty, the Fourth Grade Witch 1954

Professor Haley's Flight Home 2004

Bullies in the Cafeteria 2014

Kitty, Jack and the Creepy Clown 2016

Miss. Sarah and the Sewing Machine

1874

Eighteen year old Paul and his father John left their his cotton farm to take a load of cotton from his farm to Galveston, Texas. The team of mules pulled the heavily loaded wagon across the prairie easily. They saw a group of Union Soldiers in the distance who waved at them to stop. As they rode up John pulled his saddle bag from under the wagon seat so that he could have easy access to his Colt percussion revolver, that he smuggled home from the War Between the States. (A law passed during Reconstruction forbid anyone from wearing a side arm. This was enforced with a vengeance, if the armed person fought on the side of the Confederacy.)

One of the soldiers approached and asked, Seen any stray horses around these parts John shook his head no. The soldier noticed John's Confederate belt buckle and asked, Jonny Rebel, what outfit were you with? John replied, The Texas Boys in Gray, the Third Texas Calvary. The rider laughed, "I never did see a dead rebel cavalryman. He spurred his horse and he and the other soldiers road off in a cloud of dust.

John told Paul that times were changing. When he was a Paul's age, those soldiers probably would have been Comanche. Paul replied, At least those Yankee soldiers didn't try to scalp us.John answered, Paul, you are as right as rain on that, but if there would have been anything other than cotton in our wagon, they would have stole it and maybe the wagon too."

That evening they made camp along a river bank. Paul tied the mules in a picket line, so that they could graze. John started a camp fire and fixed their supper, which consisted of bacon, beans and a loaf of homemade bread baked by Maggie. Paul with a little more exploration found some pastry that his mother baked for them for the trip. Pa, look what I found. Well bless your Ma's tinder little heart. We will have to bring her something special from Galveston.

When it became dark, John and Paul made their beds some distance from the fire and the wagon. John took the revolver from the saddle bags. Then he used the bags as a pillow. John rolled up his blanket and made a pillow. Sleeping away from the fire and wagon would give them an advantage if outlaws tried to rob them during the night

Nothing happened during the night, so John restarted the campfire to make a pot of coffee for their breakfast which consisted of what was left of the loaf of bread. While John made the coffee. Paul harnessed the mules to the wagon.

After John sold his cotton for an excellent price, he and Paul went over to the Dixie Cafe to get a bite to eat. As they were eating, a man wearing a fine suit of clothes came over and asked if he could join them. Carpet bagger, John thought, I wonder what that Yankee wants. The man introduced himself. "Sir, I am