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Journey away from your troubles to a different time and place. Explore. Cringe. Sleuth. Shudder. And maybe even cry.
With a husband named Horace, what could go wrong?
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By the 1950s, the wild west was no longer filled with gunslingers, desperados, and bands of raiding Indians, but it was far from refined, as Bev was learning.
The smell from the outhouse assaulted Bev as she exited the small cabin she and husband, Horace lived in. Horace promised to take care of the problem. He would make everything smell, “As sweet as posies.” But, could she trust him?
Little did she know, that the stench from the outhouse was only the beginning of her problems.
Please enjoy this humorous short story of a couple homesteading in north Idaho in the 1950s.
Sweet as Posies” Review:
A delightful slice of folksy Americana that feels like sitting on a front porch with a glass of sweet tea, listening to a master storyteller spin a yarn.
…”What makes the folksy approach work so well is how it contrasts with Bev’s refined New England upbringing. The story delights in the culture clash between her sophisticated parents and the gloriously unpretentious mountain life she’s embraced. Horace, with his junk piles, outhouse schemes, and larger-than-life personality, embodies that folksy spirit perfectly.” — Author, Peter G. Thompson.
Read full review here: https://www.petergthompson.com/post/sweet-as-posies-ida-smith
Fiction writer, Ida Smith, writes stories and books about everyday people and their surprising choices when confronted with the unexpected. Some of her stories are thrillers and others are historical fiction. Read about these characters and their Jagged Journeys.
Welcome to Ida Smith Books
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
Ralph Waldo Emmerson https://www.selfhelpdaily.com/quotes-about-books-and-reading/
We live in a world of picture-perfect people who live vivid-videoed lives that are almost always the product of pain-staking photoshopping, rehearsing, mega-marketing, and spin-doctoring.
The opposite of this are those who show up on “reality” TV behaving so outrageous that one wonders what planet they stepped off.
Somewhere in the middle lies reality. But with the snippets we get from social media and the news, mingled with the crazy busyness of our lives, it’s hard to see anything clearly.
Then, in walks fiction.
It’s usually pretty clear in fiction to tell what is truly possible and what is pretend. That truth, makes it easy to relax and enjoy the pretend for what it is. It also allows us to look at the possible in a more objective, open-minded way.
With fiction, it seems easier to be objective and more openminded in our view of characters, their choices, and situations than we are with those we know personally. This enables us to better see the good, bad, and ugly. Because we know, that no one is perfect and neither is anyone completely horrible–though some may seem to come pretty close.
The same holds true for situations and circumstances. Not everyone has it all good or bad. We are all a mishmash of good and bad attributes. Sometimes we make wise choices and other times not–with a variety of outcomes. Those outcomes either improve or compound our present and future situations. (To put it simply.) See my articles in: “Thoughts on Fiction.”
That is why I call my stories, “Jagged Journeys.” For most of us, our lives don’t resemble the straight line to whatever our hopes and dreams were. Instead, they are quite jagged. Some of our lives have traversed all over the place. Others, have spun around in circles, with divergent treks, sometimes into pits, brier patches, steep mountains, or rocky cliffs.
So, I hope you’ll come along with me and meet these characters, some are wild and wooly, others shy or sneaky. Some may be like you or I, others might be like…well, I’ll let you decide.
I hope you’ll also take a moment and sign up for my Jagged Journeys e-zine/newsletter. Meet interesting characters, read some of my short stories, get updates on my books, and other offers.
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