White Buffalo

by Jim Wygant

"White Buffalo" is collection of sixteen emotionally wrenching short stories that speculate on the consequences of extraordinary, unexpected occurrences in the lives of ordinary people. A woman on a train wonders about the opportunity for doing something that will have no history and no consequences. A neighbor comforts a dying woman and reveals his intimate desire for her. A man suspected of murdering his wife is confronted by a detective who once investigated the case. A Civil War veteran returning to a 1913 commemorative ceremony at Gettysburg searches for an answer to his own grief and guilt. A drifter measures his own limits against a friend's capacity for evil following a terrorist attack. An office worker tries to rekindle an old romance and discovers something unanticipated about his present circumstances. A father offers his estranged son a pact to build a new relationship upon. These are tales of dreamers, reluctant adventurers, criminals, police, and the occasional mysterious stranger.

168 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 16, 2008

About the author

In November 2018 Jim Wygant released four new crime novels in paperback format. "Circle of Vengeance" features private investigator Howard Ash in a complex story that uncovers a secret incident from the past that leads to death. "Sweet and Gone" also features Howard Ash, this time finding himself the suspect in a murder investigation. "Pursued" is about Marti, a strong-willed one-eyed woman with low self-esteem and a heart shaped eye patch. She has a history of associating with men who carry trouble with them like an infectious disease. "The Detectives" is a police procedural in which homicide Detective Russell Strick, already suffering from severe burn-out, is assigned to the murder of a prominent citizen, with the caution from his superiors that the case has political overtones.

While the print versions of Jim's earlier books are now unavailable, all of those earlier books remain available in Kindle ebook versions from Amazon, and "The Spy's Demise" is also available in an audio version.

Besides being the author of a true-crime memoir, several novels, a book of short stories, and a book of poetry, Jim has been editor of a small weekly newspaper, a police reporter for a large metropolitan daily, an investigator in a District Attorney’s office and an Attorney General’s office, a licensed polygraph examiner, an instructor and lecturer, publisher of a newsletter for two decades, and a teacher in adult education. Working for defense attorneys, he has spent many hours interviewing suspects.

He and wife Sandy live in Oregon. They have visited the U.K., France, Italy, Greece, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Cook Islands, Russia, China, and Poland, as well as many cities in the U.S.