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Hold your horses! Billy the Kid was from Indianapolis?

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Robert Basler
Oct 22, 2025
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(Sweet Molly, running for dinner)

I have published more than 160 5 a.m. Stories since my very first one, on March 19, 2003, and the wide range of writing styles and topics continues to surprise me.

Some of them have been sad and sentimental, and I honestly did not see those coming.

Others have been witty. Don’t ask me to name them, but there must be at least some wit, somewhere in there.

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