Jim Patton

“Hard Living, Easy Dying” finds Ezekial McNair, wise beyond his years, being promoted into the Confederate cavalry. He wrestles with an incompetent superior while training a company in the strategies of cavalry fighting and Yankee supply capture to...

They say that just before you die, your life passes before you. But what if you die in an instant? What memory or few memories would you recall and which memories would not be recalled? My daughter, Lina, who is a novelist, wrote a pastiche of Tobias...

As far as grim reapers go, Texas is big enough and special enough to need its own particular angel. Enter William Robert Travis, ready to escort Texans to meet their maker in the hereafter. In episode one, Billy Bob has an appointment with one Luke...

“Walking to Hell” is the story of Ezekial McNair, a description of his Tom Sawyer-like upbringing and his life in the Confederate infantry, fighting in a war he didn’t understand for a cause he didn’t know, but confident it was his path to heroism and...