Fiction: B-B Ranch (a short story)

Larry Bailie helping a friend put
up some fence in the Everglades

By Larry Bailie

My Aunt Pat and Uncle Dutch Bailie had a cattle business called the B-B Ranch, in a place in the middle of nowhere way out north of Naples called Corkscrew. They had no children, although she had a boy from her first marriage named Jimmy who was away in the Navy. Around Christmastime, my dad told me we were going to Uncle Dutch’s ranch to pick up meat for the family. I, being the oldest at the ripe old age of eleven, would go with him to help.

My Ghosts Exposed (a poem)

Larry Bailie helping a friend put
up some fence in the Everglades

By Larry Bailie

The bells of Saint Martin
resonate deep inside your chest.
Food for your soul,
Ever Ringing.

The dust of the Sahara blows across the world,

Splashing the sunset sky here with extra wows.

Burning memories for our eyes,
To be stored away in our minds.

Kyle J. Simpson (a poem)

Larry Bailie helping a friend put
up some fence in the Everglades

By Larry Bailie

[Note: Contributing Editor Roger Owens discovered fellow Floridian Larry Bailie and invited him to submit his work to Moristotle & Co. We welcome Larry and thank Roger for serving as Larry’s editor here.]

Kyle J. Simpson

Kyle J.Simpson was a man
born in west Texas.