Archive - Miscellaneous short stories of The Tidewater Papers

What the Depths Demanded

No one was meant to see the operator come or go.

Jun 19 •

Joseph W. Knowles

March 2025

Range of Deceit

A C.R. Moultrie Story

Mar 14 •

Joseph W. Knowles

December 2024

A heavy snow had blanketed the countryside the night before Epiphany.

Dec 23, 2024 •

Joseph W. Knowles

October 2024

One Night Only: The Milestones Tour

A deposition transcript

Oct 11, 2024 •

Joseph W. Knowles

June 2024

Ithuriel's Spear

A C.R. Moultrie story

Jun 18, 2024 •

Joseph W. Knowles

August 2023

I wrote this in response to the prompt for the July Flash Fiction Contest for Silence and Starsong. To be fair to these characters, however, I decided…

Aug 9, 2023 •

Joseph W. Knowles

June 2023

Midnight in Pungo

A flash fiction story

Jun 28, 2023 •

Joseph W. Knowles

February 2023

Beneath the Hill (part 4)

In the third part of the story, our hero began to uncover a dark secret that lurks beneath the surface in Jackson Hollow.

Feb 28, 2023 •

Joseph W. Knowles

Beneath the Hill (part 3)

In the previous installment, Abishai’s unease about Jackson Hollow began to grow, as he parried questions from the local lawman and fought off an…

Feb 21, 2023 •

Joseph W. Knowles

Beneath the Hill (part 2)

Last time, Abishai Godfrey happened upon the small town of Jackson Hollow.

Feb 14, 2023 •

Joseph W. Knowles

Beneath the Hill (part 1)

Shadows crept over the valley, darkening the motley canvas of deep greens and flaming reds that forested the area around the little town. It was getting…

Feb 7, 2023 •

Joseph W. Knowles

January 2023

Sheriff Moultrie and the Sulfur Springs Bandits

Sheriff C.R. Moultrie had seen more than a few bank robberies in his time, but never one quite like what he saw that afternoon at the First Bank of…

Jan 26, 2023 •

Joseph W. Knowles

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