Email Author Rose Farley

1996 Stories by Rose Farley

• Feeling Lucky?

  published December 19, 1996

  The early-morning sun is just beginning to warm the dirt-and-gravel lot on Beeman Avenue. The only apparent movement at the ramshackle... More >>

• Down on Sherman Street

  published November 28, 1996

  The mimosa tree stands between two houses sheathed in aluminum. It grows in a yard on Sherman Street, in the waning heart of Dalworth, a... More >>

• The Ice Man

  published November 14, 1996

  Most con men flourish in anonymity and forever seek fresh territory. Roll into town, filch bingo money from a few grandmothers, then split before... More >>

• The eyes of Texas

  published October 31, 1996

  The Texas Attorney General's Office may be spared the task of answering a question that could change the face of Texas college football forever:... More >>

• The devil's work is never done

  published October 10, 1996

  If Nancy Goodstein's allegations are true, the devil inside Dr. Edward Porter has taken over his true personality and is leading the Plano... More >>

• The bloody truth

  published October 3, 1996

  A Dallas County jury may soon get to decide if Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer is an insensitive buffoon who thinks all strapping young black men... More >>

• Under the Knife

  published September 26, 1996

  The doctor was in. He was seated at a table beside the bar, and he'd been there for five hours, drinking with several of his McKinney... More >>

• The Stink Bomber

  published September 5, 1996

  On this particular Monday afternoon, Phil Thomas is clean-shaven and neatly dressed. At least by his More >>