Snass Chucks
by Rubylee Schneider
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title:
Snass Chucks
author:
Rubylee Schneider
genre:
Holiday Romance
isbn-
13:
978-1-60174-031-1
length:
6500 words. Approximate reading time 19 to 27 minutes.
price:
$2.99
~It's wintertime in Oregon. The Snass Chucks are lurking...~
When the two young lady school teachers in a tiny rural school are stood up for the important Christmas Dance, what can they do? How about borrowing their landlady's horses and riding over the mountain to the dance? Of the Snass Chucks don't get to them first…
"Although short, the story was intense as it aroused the spectrum of emotions in me from happy to anger. [The] deft use of humor while transitioning from mild to action packed moments resulted in a smooth flowing story that was impossible to put down once I started reading. Nicely done." Patrick Knight J.D, Science Fiction author
Riding wasn't a challenge for either of us. I'd ridden on our farm before I went to normal school. Mildred came from a ranch in eastern Oregon where she'd helped on cattle drives and real round-ups. She'd put that all behind her. Now she was determined to be a city girl for the rest of her life, if you can call Smithy's Corners the city.
Along the road we didn't encounter anything unusual, just silence and spitting rain. When we started up over that mountain on the old logging road, you better believe I flashed the light around constantly. We watched and listened and trembled. Every time a wet branch brushed us or dropped water on us, we yelped. Every time one of the horses stepped down on a real soggy place and the water splattered we shivered. When a sprig of kinnikinnick snagged a stirrup I jerked away.
All over the top of the hill there were dancing fingers of fog. They oozed and writhed along the ground like live beings. The whole place was so wet it was hard to breathe. I just knew one of those wisps of fog was solid enough to reach out and grab me.
My father was a Prohibition Agent and then a Revenue Officer. As such he was transferred about every eight to twelve months. In order to get along in each new school I learned to conform and observe. I still do that, try to conform to others' ideas of what I should do and be while I watch the people around me.
The 'people watching' got me started in writing while I was still in school. Those characters I viewed needed to be recorded. In a very real way my writing now helps me explore other venues than those limited ones which are either expected of me, or I am physically able to do.
I'm an eclectic reader, losing myself in a well-written story or article, sometimes rewriting and adding to it. When not reading or writing I'm truly a ding-a-ling. but a registered ding-a-ling. For many years I've enjoyed playing English Handbells. I also volunteer at an Oregon State Park and moderate a Bible Study Group. With the able help of my sociable cat, Barney, I like to cook, especially bake goodies to share with others, build quilts, and help plants grow both inside and out.
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