Rough Terrain: Short Fiction

by Bill Britt, Terry Trueman (Editor), Jeremy Nivision (Illustrator)

Buddy, a raggedy mutt with amazing courage, will steal your heart as he puts his life on the line for the sake of a child. But the snake may have the last word…In Puddlin’ fo’ Mist’ah Dude, a privileged but naïve adolescent sees and experiences first hand the confusion and pain of racism and class struggle when he steps into the role of just another laborer on a Texas rice farm in the 1960s. In Right Spirit, a teenage boy is forced into a wilderness camp where survival requires perseverance through heartbreak, loneliness, and extraordinary physical demands. Help comes from unusual and totally unexpected sources.These are three remarkable stories linked by a challenging landscape unique to each…

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 10, 2012