Short Stories

Assault on Fat Mountain
—R. A. Lafferty


  •   · Excerpt    
      (1795 A.D.) "Did you know that the future of our great land of Appalachia once hung in the balance, that it once depended on the flip of a coin? This was in the year 1788 when the frontier State of Franklin, of which our Appalachia is the overgrown child, was threatered with extinction. The state had endured for four years. Then the traitor John Tipton tried to betray the state back into the hands of North Carolina. Had he succeeded, our own fat Appalachia might now be thin and starving."  —R. A. Lafferty



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