Corvairs & Horny Toads Podcast

Lucinda Blackwood
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My collection of short stories focuses on a fictional small town on the Texas-New Mexico border. My stories show the surprising diversity of the people of the Llano Estacado, as well as the grit and determination it takes to survive and thrive on the windblown plains. lucindablackwood.substack.com

  1. 05/11/2025

    Season 2, Episode 11: Little Vera Sharp

    This is the last story in my short story collection, Corvairs and Horny Toads. It means a great deal to me. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucindablackwood.substack.com

    27 min

  2. 05/04/2025

    Season 2, Episode 10: The Griffins

    The Griffin took in each thorny mesquite tree, tumbleweed, lizard, prairie dog, coyote, snake and every child she was there to guard and protect. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucindablackwood.substack.com

    34 min

  3. 04/20/2025

    Season 2, Episode 9: Give Thanks

    She was determined to tell Jace a different version of the first so-called Thanksgiving. Things he was surely old enough to understand. Things that laid the groundwork for the uproar the next day at Beal County Elementary. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucindablackwood.substack.com

    38 min

  4. 02/09/2025

    Season 2, Episode 8: Who's Your Daddy?

    On liberty at the pubs and dancehalls—drinking, dancing, holding pretty girls who were less inhibited than the American girls they were used to—Trey and his fellow GIs enjoyed being free for a while from their own inhibitions. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucindablackwood.substack.com

    36 min

  5. 01/26/2025

    Season 2, Episode 7: Oil Wells, Fried Quail and Silver Dollars

    Something bad had happened to Priscilla, something that had turned her eight-year-old world upside down. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucindablackwood.substack.com

    34 min

  6. 12/29/2024

    Season 2, Episode 6: A Christmas Surprise

    Jerry Dale had been busy buying furniture and having drapes made for their new house while Ike put in a lawn and landscaping. Christmas had almost been an afterthought. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucindablackwood.substack.com

    27 min

  7. 12/22/2024

    Season 2, Episode 5: Chow-Chow (full story)

    Listen to Chow-Chow—the whole short story. Parts 1 and 2 were released in earlier episodes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucindablackwood.substack.com

    45 min

  8. 12/15/2024

    Season 2, Episode 4: Chow-Chow Part 2

    What will a person do with the good and the bad things that happen to them? Will they make their life into something sweet, spicy and tart to be relished? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucindablackwood.substack.com

    25 min
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My collection of short stories focuses on a fictional small town on the Texas-New Mexico border. My stories show the surprising diversity of the people of the Llano Estacado, as well as the grit and determination it takes to survive and thrive on the windblown plains. lucindablackwood.substack.com

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