The Craft Show Some weeks later, Genevieve and Kelly sat on the same side of the breakfast table so that they could pass Alexis back and forth between them as they ate, while feeding her. As Kelly held Alexis in his lap attempting to eat his breakfast, Genevieve reached over to her husband’s plate and…
Category: Novels by S. L. Pirtle
The Accidental Texan: Part 1 Chapter 4
Mae Comes to Visit Life on the little farm went on, mostly oblivious to the continued interest of the town gossips. Kelly and Genevieve were so wrapped up in the process of rebuilding their lives that they didn’t yet have the time for building a new social world, out side of the occasional dinner at…
The Accidental Texan: Part 1, Chapter 3
Part One Chapter Three: Dinner at Louise’s
The Accidental Texan: Part 1 Chapter 2
The Hay Loft Between her painting and observing small town life, Genevieve was enjoying her life on the farm, but found it strange that there was so much space between everything in Texas. She went all over the house, which was five or six times larger than any home she ever lived in before, looking…
The Accidental Texan: Part one Chapter one.
Brother Milstead Visits Nearly ten months had passed since the birth of her child. Genevieve sat in her rocking chair, holding her little red headed baby to her breast, one foot touching the floor from time to time to keep the momentum of the chair going. Over in the window seat the young artist’s model…
The Accidental Texan: Part One, Prologue
In loving memory of my mother Willie Mae Greer Pirtle, who passed away during the writing of this book. She was my one and only Alpha-Reader. Without her constant encouragement and support this book would never have been possible.
The Accidental Texan: A coming of age story
A novel the nomad wrote a few years ago serialized.
Novels by S. L. Pirtle
The Accidental Texan was my first novel to be published. It wasn’t the first novel I had ever written, but it has many of the mistakes that a first time novelist makes. It is too long for most readers, even though I cut out two thirds of the original novel to be published separately. Originally…