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Bobby Horecka August 3, 2024 Last week’s House Oversight Committee hearing saw several clashes between one of our own, Congressman Michael Cloud, and U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle about the security lapse that led to the assassination attempt made on former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  U.S. Rep. Cloud, a Republican from Victoria who…

Source: Lone Star Literary Life, March 24, 2024 Lone Star Indie Review: LONG GONE & LOST: TRUE FICTIONS AND OTHER LIES     Long Gone & Lost: True Fictions and Other Lies by Bobby Horecka is a collection of short stories and poems, based on the author’s life, that may elicit from readers bittersweet memories from their own lives, heartbreaking realizations, bouts of laughter, and actual gasps of…

Trying to post a few entries to the Texas Press Association awards today, and quickly discovered that any submission entered that exceeds 10 MB forces you have to provide a web link as part of the submission, even if you manage to get the file size down. Unfortunately, that particular newspaper has not yet got a website set up that will show anything but a digital replica of the current print…

41way to say it with flowers. For men…

It’s almost that time again, boys! No, I’m not talking about Superbowl LVII, set Sunday, Feb. 12, in Glendale, Arizona; the 65th annual Daytona 500, coming Sunday, Feb. 19, live from Daytona Speedway; the gravity-defying Winter X Games, scheduled Jan. 27-29 in Aspen, Colorado; nor even the John Beargrease Marathon, which as everyone knows is the grueling 400-mile race for the finish line held the…

Reveille Retreat returns to TR Ranch in 2022

Weeklong songwriting retreat for veterans to host first in-person event since pandemic By BOBBY HORECKA, Managing Editor, LaVacian: Lavaca County Farm & Home, Fall 2022 We lined up the vehiclesgetting ready for warjust like we’d done 1,000 times before we talked about the mission and what could go wrongno matter what would happenwe would stay Army strong… Bobby Henline Bobby Henline has a…

You know you’re getting old when…

…ALL your freaking stories start disappearing off the internet. Hell, there was a time we inkstained newspaper folk honestly thought those words of ours might live forever in the great wide web. Of course, back then, 10 years was right next to forever. I fully expected to be dead by 30, if you wanna know the truth. I just figured I’d wind up doing some stupid shit, then get to watch as my face…

There’s a word for that — well, almost…

It’s so hot in Texas even the squirrels are giving up… Surfing the state and national headlines last weekend I happened upon a word I’d never seen before, applied to squirrels, of all things, all over Texas. Curious, I clicked the headline, which carried me to a story, written originally for the San Antonio Express News but republished in the Houston Chronicle, about how in this miserable oven…

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Some monsters will keep you up nights. But in the heart of Texas, our monsters are all too often, all too real…

That’s how Madville’s editorial director Kimberly Davis teased the stories that have become my book, after picking a picture for the cover that you’d swear slipped right out of an old family album someplace, based on little more than a few words I lumped together in an attempt to…

What it might’ve sounded like had I made it to Austin last weekend…

Despite that nifty little pep talk I wrote myself a week ago, I never made it to Austin. Six hours of windshield time getting there from where I am, combined with however long the event itself would’ve taken, just seemed to gobble a lot of what little home time I have lately. Conscious home time, anyway…

Still, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to read, either. Not after hearing from so…