After their return to Dodge, Matt & Kitty are busy running their farm and building a life together. Evil lies dormant in every community and it is getting closer and closer to home.

"My daughter was like you. She was pretty, and now she's dead. The prettiest ones are always the most wicked." A Magnus story.

When Matt, Chester, Doc, Kitty and saloon gal Lilah Rose take a fishing trip to convalesce following an influenza epidemic, they meet lonely wanderer Zeb Woodman, who is captivated by Kitty, while Lilah is besotted with Chester.

A man comes to town and has plans for Kitty.

[This story dedicated to RB: Happy Birthday] Remember the old saying: It's A Thin Line Between Love & Hate? ...And so begins this latest tale in the FLAME Series of GS stories. In the midst of swirling emotional turmoil comes real physical threat and harm. From Poppy to Hadley, everyone responds to the new energies and upcoming changes.

Kitty and Matt are celebrating their two month anniversary. She has a special surprise for their romantic evening but she is the one who gets a surprise. This is a short very special story to honor the 100th birthday of Uncle Dubs, and what would have been the 90th birthday of Miss Amanda Blake. They loved each other and Gunsmoke.

This is a Kincaid story. You need to have read "A Fine and Private Place" to understand where this starts. I began writing it a year ago just before Lady of Dodge died. She was reading and commenting on it for me, and after her passing I just could not bring myself to touch it. I may be slow, but I will finish. Please give me your patience. I hope you'll like it.

Tensions flare when Chester defies orders and interferes in a gunfight between Matt and Hec Ranger.

Most are extremely brief, all will be stand-alone vignettes, completely unhindered by plot. ;-) Some sweet, some bittersweet, some humorous, some poignant, all romantic. When you get to the end of the "chapter" it is over. The end. If you like 'em, I've got seven or so already written, another half dozen partly written. If you hate 'em, I can quit at any time. Thanks, lj

"So he was a fellow lawman - several of those had passed through Dodge before too, and not all of them were committed to upholding justice. Some were even down- right unfriendly."

Matt & Kitty met 3 1/2 years ago. An unseasonably warm May day brings out another side of Matt Dillon. He takes advantage of the weather & the relative quiet of his town to take the half owner of the Long Branch for the past year for some nighttime fishing. This romantic interlude was inspired by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band song of the same title as my story.

Matt's efforts to help alcoholic Odin Vaughan endanger Odin's life. (Kitty plays a crucial role in Chapter 3, and has a Kitty-centered scene near story's end.)

About 4 months after being shot in the back Matt & Kitty go on a business/pleasure trip to Topeka. While there an accident severely injures Kitty at a time & place where the governor witnesses both the accident & the toll it takes on Matt. Thus it provides the background for Matt's encounter with the governor 8 or 9 months later during Hostage.

What if horses could talk what could Buck have told us about Matt Dillon and his friends.

A cowboy who hates lawmen hounds Chester to rile Matt.

A brief epilogue to "The Distant Sound of Thunder Rumbling." The old man still has a few surprises up his sleeve for Kitty.

It is Christmas time in Dodge. Once again Matt has to Work.With a little hope, love and fath maybe all will have a good night, but than again Dodge is a long way from the north pool.

A handsome new suitor tempts Kitty, a lady of the night seduces Matt, and Chester vies with Doc for the affections of a young woman courted by a jealous beau.

Kitty has recovered from the train accident and it is now time for her wedding, at last, to the Marshal. It is a great gathering as friends and acquaintances gather to view the Big Day. There are also big changes in store for the Happy Couple and a few complications.

Every wonder what happened between the filmed scenes? Me too.

Matt gets it again and gets up wounded for more gunplay vs. vengeful brothers. A journalist tells the tale with the first-person voices of Matt, Chester, Doc, Kitty, Jonas, Ma Smalley, and the one who shoots Matt. Chapter Two casts light on the journalist himself and his attraction to Kitty as he pays a sick visit to Doc and asks the marshal and Chester meddlesome questions.

A story within a story - of beautiful redheaded damsels and strong, brave protectors; of good guys, bad guys (and worse guys); there's even a "dwagon!"

Feeling neglected, Chester faces the attentions of a maiden lady and a bout with pneumonia one bleak winter, while Matt and Kitty renew a troubled courtship.

Matt must protect an artist from bullies. "Stay away from him. Or you'll answer to me." -Marshal Dillon

The episode of 'Cleavis' is a look into the dark mind of a damaged soul. He also left damage in his wake. Just a little ATC.