Richard Bertram Peterson

Richard Bertram Peterson has published his many short stories in various literary genres. When not writing he roadtrips the country and tends to his homesteads on the Monterey Peninsula in California and the High Plains of Nebraska.

A Girl of the High Country

Delwyn nodded to the woman as he walked from his allocated parking space. She was leaning against a directional sign, her legs crossed at the ankles in a pose of inappropriate insouciance, a cigarette paused between her fingers, her face wreathed in a fine gray ash. He thought it unseemly for women to smoke and certainly not a good look for the hospital.